Every category where a model named Indusface AppTrana 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	Since September 2026
Bot management	Network and edge	2%	6 of 83	0%	13	accepted challenger
API security platforms	Security operations	0%	31 of 93	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	19 of 58	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 82%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	57 of 82	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Indusface AppTrana across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	3
Grok 4.20	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0

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

Direct17 labelsNone

Paraphrase13 labels1

Comparative17 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained20 labels7

Scale-constrained5 labels1

Negative10 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative82 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 12 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.

“1. Indusface AppTrana - combines web application firewall capabilities with bot management for APIs and web applications.” Llama 4 Maverick · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“AppTrana offers a refreshing managed approach that offloads the burden of rule-writing for SMBs with limited IT staff” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative

“AppTrana's unmetered approach could save money in the long run by eliminating unexpected charges during attacks.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Bot management · budget prompt · alternative

“Indusface is highly recommended for mid-market organizations that lack dedicated internal security staff” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Bot management · direct 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 Indusface AppTrana, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Indusface AppTrana was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare Bot Management34 of 8123Compare →

DataDome29 of 816Compare →

Akamai Bot Manager20 of 810Compare →

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection17 of 810Not among the top eight

AWS WAF15 of 812Not among the top eight

Cloudflare11 of 8111Not among the top eight

Cloudflare WAF10 of 818Not among the top eight

AWS Shield10 of 810Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Shield9 of 812Not among the top eight

Radware Bot Manager9 of 810Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Indusface AppTrana. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 81 of the 81 answers that named Indusface AppTrana and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

indusface.comYour site74

radware.com41

g2.com40

cequence.ai29

comparitech.com25

securityboulevard.com23

expertinsights.com22

cybersecuritynews.com20

cloudflare.com18

peerspot.com18

236 of the 310 domain citations in answers naming Indusface AppTrana came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

indusface.com/blog/top-bot-management-software44

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/best-botnet-protection-tools19

securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-202416

g2.com/categories/bot-platforms15

cloudflare.com/plans14

cside.com/blog/best-bot-detection-software14

cybersecuritynews.com/bot-protection-software14

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/top-malicious-bots-security-solutions14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

indusface.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Indusface AppTrana takes 2% of first choices and Cloudflare Bot Management takes 56%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “bot management solution”

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not in the top ten

Position for “bot management solutions”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 10 a month (“indusface apptrana”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 15,007 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,152 · 184 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,224
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

56 ads · 56 image · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2025, as INDUSFACE PRIVATE LIMITED, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 9 in the year, 47 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 6 of 83 in bot management

Segment leader

56%

Cloudflare Bot Management

First choices: 9 across its categories
Named in: 81 answers
Its own site cited: in 81 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on indusface.com

1,717

subdomains included

Content

1,147

counted in the table below

Documentation

245

Product · Integration

25 · 3

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	655	16	2026-09-18	WAF, DDoS
News or press	152	undated		WAF, DDoS
Glossary or explainer	79	12	2026-09-23	CDN, PTaaS
Webinar or virtual event	60	undated		WAF
Conference or event	50	undated
Comparison	48	1	2026-08-06	WAF, Patching
Report or ebook	41	undated		DDoS, WAF
Case study	34	undated		WAF, DDoS
Podcast or video	19	0	2026-06-22	WAF, SOAR
Template or tool	9	0	2025-09-05

Most recent

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2026-09-18Cve 2026 67401 cpanel emailtrack sql injection blog
2026-09-18What is latency glossary or explainer

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page indusface.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Indusface AppTrana

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

AppTrana 6AppTrana (by Indusface) 3AppTrana WAAP 2AppTrana by Indusface 1Indusface 1

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The company

Indusface AppTrana is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AppTrana Platform WAAP\ \ Web app, API and AI protection (WAAP). AI for speed, experts for certainty. Zero false positives.
indusface.com
For: security teams
indusface.com
Price stated: One price. Every module included. indusface.com
Starting price: 99 indusface.com/pricing/apptrana-waap
Free plan or trial: Start Free Trial indusface.com
Certifications: ISO 27001 certified support centerPCI DSS 3.2.1PCI DSS 3.2 Compliance
Customers named: TCSNiva BupaPNB Housing FinanceTata PowerHDFCShoppers Stop
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, hosting

What Indusface AppTrana's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: indusface.com, indusface.com/pricing/apptrana-waap, indusface.com/products/apptrana-api, indusface.com/customers, indusface.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Indusface AppTrana by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Indusface AppTrana is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Indusface AppTrana, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.