Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 3%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
3%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 2 → 5 of 52
4 categories · Named, not rankedLevelBlue
16Judge labels
1First choices
7Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. LevelBlue was named 8 times in DDoS and 3 other categories, where Cloudflare led with 82%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market7 of 58
2%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise25 of 41
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In ddos · 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 LevelBlue 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS protection | Network and edge | 2% | 7 of 58 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 82% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 3%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| DNS filtering | Network and edge | 0% | 73 of 94 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59% | |
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 23 of 78 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84% | |
| Managed detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 52 of 67 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, LevelBlue held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · DDoS · by segment
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 18 → 25 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS | 5% | 3% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 3%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 7 of 58 |
| DNS filtering | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 73 of 94, unchanged |
| Managed DNS | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 23 of 78, unchanged |
| MDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 52 of 67, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated LevelBlue across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated LevelBlue across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 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.
“LevelBlue (AT&T) is the strongest single pick from the results because it is explicitly rated "Best for Mid-market"” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · direct prompt · first choice
“LevelBlue (AT&T) is another solid mid-market option” Perplexity Sonar · DNS filtering · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“rated Best for Mid-market with a combined score of 9.2” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed DNS · direct prompt · alternative
“LevelBlue (AT&T) is also a strong contender” Mistral Small · DNS filtering · paraphrase 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.
“Default DNS from Your ISP (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum, etc.) Verdict: Avoid entirely.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DNS filtering · negative prompt · hard negative
“Comcast xFi, Avast, AT&T, Eero, and T-Mobile often override DNS settings.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DNS filtering · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LevelBlue, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LevelBlue was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LevelBlue, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LevelBlue was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 LevelBlue. 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 15 of the 16 answers that named LevelBlue and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com6
palomarr.com6
cybersecuritynews.com4
devopsschool.com4
it-ai-index.com4
reddit.com4
sourceforge.net4
controld.com3
cyberpress.org3
gartner.com3
Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming LevelBlue came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on levelblue.com
3,694
subdomains included
Content
2,642
counted in the table below
Documentation
803
Product · Integration
8 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,215 | 13 | 2026-09-24 | MDR, SIEM | |
| News or press | 146 | 3 | 2026-08-19 | MDR, SIEM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 91 | 0 | 2026-03-09 | XDR, EDR | |
| Report or ebook | 59 | 0 | 2025-05-09 | MDR, SIEM | |
| Conference or event | 44 | 0 | 2023-12-19 | SIEM, XDR | |
| Glossary or explainer | 29 | 0 | 2025-08-01 | ||
| Case study | 28 | 0 | 2023-10-13 | SIEM, MFA | |
| Podcast or video | 17 | undated | MDR | ||
| Comparison | 11 | 0 | 2026-03-06 | MDR, SIEM | |
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2016-08-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Levelblue australian soc launch a commitment to regional resilience blog
- 2026-09-22The human side of cyber resilience whats often overlooked before a crisis blog
- 2026-09-17The first 12 hours of an incident matter more than the next 12 days blog
- 2026-09-15Digital risk protection in the age of ai blog
- 2026-09-099000 incident response investigations later the 11 essential cybersecurity controls blog
- 2026-09-03From phishing to persistence lessons from the crysome rat infection chain blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page levelblue.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 LevelBlue
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as LevelBlue; a claim can dispute any of them.
LevelBlue (AT&T) 5AT&T 3
Follow LevelBlue
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
LevelBlue is its own company.ShowHide
The company
LevelBlue is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a managed service that delivers enterprise-grade DDoS protection, blocking volumetric network-layer attacks to ensure uptime and business continuity
- For
- businesses and organizations
- Free plan or trial
- Free Trials levelblue.com
- Customers named
- Public School SystemState and Local GovernmentsCurtin UniversityHiggins CoatingsMelbourne Airport
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What LevelBlue's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: levelblue.com/services/managed-ddos-defense, levelblue.com, levelblue.com/solutions/sox. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when LevelBlue's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as LevelBlue, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for LevelBlue by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where LevelBlue 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 LevelBlue, 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.