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Index › Vendors › Path.net · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Path.net

3Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Path.net was named 2 times in DDoS, where Cloudflare led with 93%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business34 of 41

under the label threshold

Mid-market49 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Path.net 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%	49 of 51	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%

Movement

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

Model	Negative	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	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Why Be Cautious: While Path.net has strong technical capabilities ... their customer support and stability have been heavily criticized” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative

“Path.net also has mixed feedback worth noting... reliability concerns for high-stakes use.” Grok 4.1 Fast · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Path.net, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Path.net was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare3 of 33Not in the top three

Akamai Prolexic3 of 30Not in the top three

DDoS-Guard3 of 30Not in the top three

AWS Shield2 of 30Not in the top three

Cosmic Guard2 of 30Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection1 of 30Not in the top three

Flowtriq1 of 30Not in the top three

Gcore1 of 30Not in the top three

Hyperfilter1 of 30Not in the top three

Imperva1 of 30Not 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 Path.net. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named Path.net and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com3

esecurityplanet.com3

geekflare.com3

ie.trustpilot.com3

lowendtalk.com3

trustpilot.com3

au.trustpilot.com2

ca.trustpilot.com2

cyberpress.org2

es.trustpilot.com2

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Path.net came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools3

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors3

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/ddos-protection-service3

lowendtalk.com/discussion/74798/review-of-ddos-mitigation-solutions-providers3

trustpilot.com/review/ddos-guard.net3

trustpilot.com/review/path.net3

au.trustpilot.com/review/ginernet.com2

cyberpress.org/ddos-protection-services-to-consider2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

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 Path.net'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 Path.net, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at pathnet.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.