Every category where a model named Imperva 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
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	5 of 51	6%	36	accepted challenger
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	14 of 87	37%	27	criticized challenger
Content delivery networks	Network and edge	0%	23 of 40	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 80%
Privileged access management	Identity and access	0%	30 of 74	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Imperva 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	2	3
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	1	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	3	0	2	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	6	0	2	8
Mistral Small	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	4	1	3	8
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	7	2	0	9
Kimi K2	5	1	1	7
GLM 4.7 FlashX	6	2	2	10
MiniMax M2.5	4	0	1	5

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

Direct37 labels1

Paraphrase41 labels1

Comparative42 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained35 labels1

Negative30 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative193 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 7 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.

“Imperva if you want a more security-suite-oriented platform and are comfortable with a heavier enterprise/security-vendor style deployment” GPT-5.4 mini · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“if you have specific compliance requirements or need advanced features, Imperva might be worth the extra investment” MiniMax M2.5 · WAF · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Stick with well-established providers like Cloudflare, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva, AWS Shield, or Azure DDoS Protection” Mistral Small · DDoS · negative prompt · alternative

“Common vendors to evaluate for a company of your size: Cloudflare ..., Fastly, Akamai, Imperva, and Radware.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · scale 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.

“Avoid assuming Imperva's signature protections are sufficient — independent tests show they miss most attacks.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · WAF · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Imperva for small budgets; its entry price (~$59/month) is high compared to Cloudflare.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · WAF · budget prompt · hard negative

“Imperva and Akamai are worth considering only when you need compliance‑grade accuracy or massive edge scale that far exceeds a typical mid‑market workload” GLM 4.7 FlashX · WAF · direct prompt · soft negative

“it's typically pricier and geared more toward enterprise-scale, so evaluate whether you need that depth.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · WAF · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Imperva, over the 192 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare162 of 192127Not in the top three

AWS Shield89 of 1922Not in the top three

Akamai Prolexic88 of 1925Not in the top three

Akamai60 of 1923Not in the top three

AWS WAF57 of 1923Not in the top three

Radware51 of 1920Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection48 of 1920Not in the top three

Fastly45 of 1920Not in the top three

Sucuri37 of 1924Not in the top three

F535 of 1920Not 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. 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 159 of the 192 answers that named Imperva and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org121

cybersecuritynews.com111

expertinsights.com64

imperva.comYour site55

flowtriq.com54

gartner.com51

radware.com45

esecurityplanet.com44

geekflare.com41

wafplanet.com41

572 of the 627 domain citations in answers naming Imperva came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools67

cyberpress.org/ddos-protection-services-to-consider65

cyberpress.org/waf-solutions-by-business-size56

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls43

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions41

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors38

myrasecurity.com/en/the-10-best-ddos-protection-services30

cloudminister.com/blog/a-technical-comparison-of-ddos-protection-services-cloudflare-aws-s29

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Imperva

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

Imperva (Incapsula) 2Incapsula 2Imperva (Cloud WAF/Advanced WAF) 1Imperva (Incapsola) 1Imperva (Thales) 1Imperva (WAF) 1Imperva (by Akamai) 1Imperva (formerly Incapsula) 1Imperva Professional 1

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