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
DDoS protection	Network and edge	5%	2 of 51	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%

Movement

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

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

Direct3 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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) stands out as the best overall choice due to its tailored mid-market focus, scalability, and strong review ratings.” Mistral Small · DDoS · direct prompt · first choice

“The best DDoS protection service for a mid-market B2B company is LevelBlue (AT&T)” Llama 4 Maverick · DDoS · direct prompt · first choice

“LevelBlue (AT&T) is listed as "Best for Mid-market" in one 2026 ranking” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · 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 LevelBlue, over the 9 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare4 of 92Not in the top three

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN4 of 91Not in the top three

Akamai Prolexic4 of 90Not in the top three

Verizon4 of 90Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN3 of 91Not in the top three

AWS Shield3 of 90Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection3 of 90Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN3 of 90Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN2 of 90Not in the top three

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect2 of 90Not 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 LevelBlue. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named LevelBlue and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com5

cloudminister.com4

cybersecuritynews.com4

palomarr.com4

business.att.com3

dcconnectglobal.com3

expertinsights.com3

flowtriq.com3

fortinet.com3

geekflare.com3

Thirty-five of the thirty-five domain citations in answers naming LevelBlue came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudminister.com/blog/a-technical-comparison-of-ddos-protection-services-cloudflare-aws-s4

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools4

dcconnectglobal.com/sd-wan-providers-compared-20263

expertinsights.com/web-security/top-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-defense-solutions3

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions3

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/ddos-protection-service3

myrasecurity.com/en/the-10-best-ddos-protection-services3

netify.co.uk/insights/problems-with-sd-wan3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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) 3

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