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Index › Vendors › Imperva Cloud WAF · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Imperva Cloud WAF

11Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Imperva Cloud WAF was named 4 times in WAF, where Cloudflare led with 55%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business28 of 77

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprise10 of 94

under the label threshold

In waf · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Imperva Cloud WAF for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	15 of 87	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Imperva Cloud WAF yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Imperva Cloud WAF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Enterprise-grade with advanced bot protection and DB-layer security... but pricier and sales-heavy.” Grok 4.1 Fast · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Trade-off: Quote-only pricing and longer deployment; overkill unless compliance is the driver.” Kimi K2 · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Imperva is widely considered the gold standard for compliance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · WAF · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for: Comprehensive cloud protection” MiniMax M2.5 · WAF · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Imperva Cloud WAF, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva Cloud WAF was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AWS WAF8 of 110Not in the top three

Cloudflare WAF7 of 115Not in the top three

Akamai App & API Protector4 of 111Not in the top three

Cloudflare3 of 113Not in the top three

F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF3 of 110Not in the top three

Fastly Next-Gen WAF3 of 110Not in the top three

AWS WAF + Bot Control2 of 110Not in the top three

Akamai2 of 110Not in the top three

Azure WAF2 of 110Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiWeb2 of 110Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Imperva Cloud WAF. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 10 of the 11 answers that named Imperva Cloud WAF and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com8

cybersecuritynews.com7

wafplanet.com7

cyberpress.org5

guptadeepak.com5

openappsec.io5

cipherssecurity.com4

guideflow.com4

imperva.comYour site4

radware.com4

Forty-nine of the fifty-three domain citations in answers naming Imperva Cloud WAF came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls8

cyberpress.org/waf-solutions-by-business-size5

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-waf5

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-waf-web-application-firewall-tools-20265

openappsec.io/post/best-waf-solutions-in-2024-2025-real-world-comparison5

cipherssecurity.com/best-waf-providers-20264

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-solutions/amp4

guideflow.com/blog/web-application-firewall-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Imperva Cloud WAF

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Imperva Cloud WAF; a claim can dispute any of them.

Imperva Cloud WAF (by Thales) 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at imperva.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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