Every category where a model named NETSCOUT Arbor 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%	37 of 51	33%	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 NETSCOUT Arbor 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 NETSCOUT Arbor 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	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 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.

“Strict on‑prem or hybrid control | Arbor NETSCOUT, Vercara, or on‑prem appliances” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DDoS · 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.

“Hardware appliances (Arbor, Radware): Typically $100,000+/year” Kimi K2 · DDoS · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as NETSCOUT Arbor, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NETSCOUT Arbor was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai Prolexic15 of 153Not in the top three

Cloudflare14 of 1511Not in the top three

AWS Shield13 of 150Not in the top three

Radware13 of 150Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection11 of 150Not in the top three

Imperva9 of 150Not in the top three

Fastly5 of 150Not in the top three

Google Cloud Armor4 of 150Not in the top three

Nexusguard3 of 151Not in the top three

F52 of 150Not 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 NETSCOUT Arbor. 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 13 of the 15 answers that named NETSCOUT Arbor and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org12

cybersecuritynews.com11

gartner.com8

flowtriq.com7

esecurityplanet.com6

expertinsights.com6

geekflare.com6

best-ddos-protection-tools.com5

cloudminister.com5

eastbaycyber.com5

Seventy-one of the seventy-one domain citations in answers naming NETSCOUT Arbor came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/ddos-protection-services-to-consider12

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools11

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions8

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors6

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/ddos-protection-service6

best-ddos-protection-tools.com/5

cloudminister.com/blog/a-technical-comparison-of-ddos-protection-services-cloudflare-aws-s5

eastbaycyber.com/content/compare-best-ddos-protection-services-20265

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as NETSCOUT Arbor

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

Arbor 2Arbor NETSCOUT 1

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