Index › Products › R8 · October 2026 Edition

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R8

6Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

5 / 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. R8 was named 2 times in App shielding, where Appdome led with 33%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business13 of 100

under the label threshold

Mid-market35 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprise95 of 96

under the label threshold

In app shielding · 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 R8 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
Application shielding	Developer platform	0%	35 of 87	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Appdome at 33%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for R8 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 R8 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	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1
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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“Ensure you are using the default Android build tools (R8) to ensure your code is at least obfuscated.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · App shielding · budget prompt · alternative

“If you have Android only and mainly want basic code obfuscation, start with R8” GPT-6 Luna · App shielding · budget 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 R8, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and R8 was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ProGuard5 of 60Not among the top eight

DexGuard4 of 61Not among the top eight

Appdome4 of 60Not among the top eight

AppTego2 of 62Not among the top eight

Obfuscapk2 of 60Not among the top eight

PreEmptive Dotfuscator2 of 60Not among the top eight

Promon SHIELD2 of 60Not among the top eight

Verimatrix Application Shielding2 of 60Not among the top eight

Talsec freeRASP1 of 61Not among the top eight

AppSealing1 of 60Not 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 R8. 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 6 of the 6 answers that named R8 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

preemptive.com5

g2.com3

softwaresuggest.com3

sourceforge.net3

us.fitgap.com3

worldmetrics.org3

zipdo.co3

agentpedia.codes2

appsecsanta.com2

axiobench.com2

No domain is on file for R8, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

softwaresuggest.com/application-shielding-software3

worldmetrics.org/best/application-shielding-software3

zipdo.co/best/application-shielding-software3

agentpedia.codes/blog/mobile-app-security-20262

appsecsanta.com/guardsquare2

axiobench.com/best/application-shielding-software2

cybersectools.com/alternatives/obfuscapk2

developer.android.com/topic/performance/app-optimization/enable-app-optimization2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow R8

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.

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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 R8'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 R8, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for R8 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where R8 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 R8, 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.