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Index › Vendors › Radware Cloud WAF · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Radware Cloud WAF

14Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

6 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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Radware Cloud WAF was named 5 times in WAF, where Cloudflare led with 55%. 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-market56 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprise22 of 94

under the label threshold

In waf · 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 Radware Cloud WAF 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
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	56 of 87	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Radware Cloud WAF 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 Radware Cloud WAF 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	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
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	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 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.

“Best for: Flexible hybrid deployment” MiniMax M2.5 · WAF · 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.

“Radware Cloud WAF ⚠️ HIGH CAUTION - Critical vulnerabilities disclosed in 2024-2025” Kimi K2 · WAF · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Radware Cloud WAF, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Radware Cloud WAF was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AWS WAF11 of 140Not in the top three

Cloudflare WAF8 of 146Not in the top three

Imperva8 of 140Not in the top three

Akamai App & API Protector7 of 140Not in the top three

Akamai6 of 141Not in the top three

Fastly Next-Gen WAF6 of 140Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiWeb6 of 140Not in the top three

Cloudflare4 of 141Not in the top three

Google Cloud Armor4 of 140Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure WAF4 of 140Not 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 Radware Cloud WAF. 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 14 of the 14 answers that named Radware Cloud WAF and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com12

openappsec.io11

cybersecuritynews.com10

wafplanet.com10

cyberpress.org7

radware.comYour site7

imperva.com6

akamai.com4

checkpoint.com4

fastly.com4

Sixty-eight of the seventy-five domain citations in answers naming Radware Cloud WAF came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls12

wafplanet.com/10

openappsec.io/post/best-waf-solutions-in-2024-2025-real-world-comparison9

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-solutions/amp8

cybersecuritynews.com/best-web-application-firewall-waf8

cyberpress.org/waf-solutions-by-business-size7

openappsec.io/post/best-waf-solutions-in-2026-real-world-comparison6

imperva.com/blog/best-waap-solutions5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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