Every category where a model named Radware 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%	8 of 51	5%	22	accepted challenger
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	71 of 87	0%	1	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 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 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	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	3	0	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	3	0	0	3

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

Direct12 labelsNone

Paraphrase13 labelsNone

Comparative23 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained12 labelsNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative74 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.

“Akamai Prolexic or Radware offer the white-glove, hardened protection required by banks and governments” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative

“Common vendors to evaluate for a company of your size: ... Akamai, Imperva, and Radware.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · scale prompt · alternative

“Radware if you want a more security-specialist, behavioral-defense-oriented vendor.” GPT-5.4 mini · DDoS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Specialized Layer‑7 protection (APIs, app‑specific logic) | Imperva AppTrana or Radware” 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 Radware, over the 74 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Radware was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare72 of 7463Not in the top three

Akamai Prolexic61 of 745Not in the top three

AWS Shield59 of 740Not in the top three

Imperva51 of 743Not in the top three

Azure DDoS Protection35 of 740Not in the top three

Fastly21 of 741Not in the top three

Google Cloud Armor21 of 740Not in the top three

NETSCOUT Arbor13 of 740Not in the top three

F511 of 740Not in the top three

Nexusguard9 of 741Not 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. 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 62 of the 74 answers that named Radware and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com50

cyberpress.org46

esecurityplanet.com32

flowtriq.com32

gartner.com30

myrasecurity.com24

radware.comYour site24

expertinsights.com20

geekflare.com18

best-ddos-protection-tools.com17

269 of the 293 domain citations in answers naming Radware came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/ddos-protection-tools47

cyberpress.org/ddos-protection-services-to-consider41

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors29

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions29

myrasecurity.com/en/the-10-best-ddos-protection-services23

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/ddos-protection-service18

best-ddos-protection-tools.com/17

cloudminister.com/blog/a-technical-comparison-of-ddos-protection-services-cloudflare-aws-s17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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