Every category where a model named Radware Bot Manager 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
Bot management	Network and edge	0%	43 of 83	36%	11	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Radware Bot Manager 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 Radware Bot Manager 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	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.20	0	3	2	5
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative13 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained7 labels1

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 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.

“a non-intrusive API-based Bot Management solution to detect, eliminate, and manage bot traffic” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Bot management · direct prompt · alternative

“Radware Bot Manager and Akamai Bot Manager are also strong contenders” Perplexity Sonar · Bot management · direct prompt · alternative

“Radware (strong for large enterprises, but requires ongoing tuning)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Bot management · negative 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.

“enterprise-heavy options like Imperva, Akamai, or Radware (often custom-priced in the thousands)” Grok 4.20 · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“described as enterprise-grade and potentially cost-prohibitive for SMBs” Perplexity Sonar · Bot management · budget prompt · soft negative

“Radware reviews note occasional blocks on legitimate crawlers or users” Grok 4.20 · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

“Reporting customization limited” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Bot management · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Radware Bot Manager, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Radware Bot Manager was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akamai Bot Manager36 of 443Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Bot Management33 of 4422Not among the top eight

DataDome31 of 444Not among the top eight

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection31 of 441Not among the top eight

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense13 of 440Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security9 of 443Not among the top eight

Indusface AppTrana9 of 441Not among the top eight

Arkose Labs9 of 440Not among the top eight

Kasada7 of 440Not among the top eight

Netacea7 of 440Not 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 Radware Bot Manager. 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 43 of the 44 answers that named Radware Bot Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.comYour site30

indusface.com23

cequence.ai21

securityboulevard.com20

g2.com19

geetest.com15

akamai.com13

forrester.com13

developers.cloudflare.com12

techtimes.com12

148 of the 178 domain citations in answers naming Radware Bot Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

indusface.com/blog/top-bot-management-software23

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/best-botnet-protection-tools22

securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-202417

geetest.com/en/article/best-bot-management-software15

securityboulevard.com/2024/10/what-is-bot-management15

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-bot-management-software-q3-2024/RES18101313

akamai.com/products/bot-manager12

radware.com/cyberpedia/bot-management/top-malicious-bots-security-solutions12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

radware.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Radware Bot Manager takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare Bot Management takes 56%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “bot management solution”

Position for “bot management solutions”

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“radware bot manager”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 a month
Its company's site: radware.com shared with Radware's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 43,076 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,954 · 508 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 8,675
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $21 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 78 text, 31 video, 11 image · 13 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2022, as Radware Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 37 in the year, 83 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 43 of 83 in bot management

Segment leader

56%

Cloudflare Bot Management

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 44 answers
Its own site cited: in 43 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Radware Bot Manager

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

Radware 3Netacea/Radware Bot Manager 1

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The company

Radware is the company behind Radware Bot Manager.

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On record

Company records

Also from Radware: Radware API Protection, Radware Alteon, Radware Client-Side Protection

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Leader in Bot Management
radware.com/bot-management-q3-2024
Free plan or trial: 90 days radware.com/bot-management-q3-2024
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Radware Bot Manager's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: radware.com/bot-management-q3-2024, radware.com/qks-bot-management-q3-2025, radware.com/e-commerce-bot-threat-report, radware.com/2022-spark-matrix-bot-management, radware.com/2023-spark-matrix-bot-management. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Radware Bot Manager 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 Radware Bot Manager, 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.