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Microsoft Defender for API

2Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Defender for API was named 1 time in API security, where Aikido Security led with 12%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market47 of 93

under the label threshold

Enterprise61 of 82

under the label threshold

In api security · 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 Microsoft Defender for API 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
API security platforms	Security operations	0%	47 of 93	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%

Movement

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

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Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Native integration with Azure and Microsoft 365, providing unified security for APIs.” Mistral Small · API security · 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 Microsoft Defender for API, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Defender for API was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Salt Security2 of 21Not among the top eight

42Crunch2 of 20Not among the top eight

Akamai API Security2 of 20Not among the top eight

Cequence Unified API Protection2 of 20Not among the top eight

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security2 of 20Not among the top eight

Imperva API Security2 of 20Not among the top eight

StackHawk2 of 20Not among the top eight

Wallarm API Security2 of 20Not among the top eight

Apigee1 of 20Not among the top eight

Cloudflare API Gateway1 of 20Not 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 Microsoft Defender for API. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Microsoft Defender for API and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dev.to2

radware.com2

sphericalinsights.com2

01net.it1

cequence.ai1

ciopages.com1

cloud.google.com1

community.owasp.org1

cyberpress.org1

debugg.ai1

Thirteen of the thirteen domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Defender for API came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dev.to/firststeptechnology/top-api-security-companies-and-their-products-for-2024-5bbb2

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/api-security-platforms2

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-security/choosing-api-security-solutions2

sphericalinsights.com/blogs/top-25-companies-in-global-api-security-market-2024-2035-compe2

01net.it/axway-named-a-leader-in-the-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-api-management1

cequence.ai/learn/api-security/api-security-tools-15-solutions-compared1

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/api-security1

cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/apigee-a-leader-in-2024-gartner-api-manageme1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Defender for API.

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

where Microsoft Defender for API 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 Microsoft Defender for API, 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.