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3 categories · Named, not ranked

StackPath

19Judge labels

1First choices

8Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

3Categories

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

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. StackPath was named 7 times in CDN and 2 other categories, where Cloudflare led with 80%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business4 of 30

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 40

under the label threshold

Enterprise28 of 39

under the label threshold

In cdn · 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 StackPath 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
Content delivery networks	Network and edge	0%	30 of 40	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 80%
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	35 of 51	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	59 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 StackPath 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 StackPath 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	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	1	4
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 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.

“Offers a managed WAF specifically designed for smaller businesses” Qwen 3.7 Flash · WAF · 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.

“StackPath officially exited the CDN business in late 2023 and fully wound down and liquidated all its assets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · hard negative

“The Aggregators (StackPath, LiteSpeed): Cheaper, but verify their PoP coverage and support hours seriously.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CDN · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as StackPath, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and StackPath was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare19 of 1912Not in the top three

Amazon CloudFront14 of 191Not in the top three

Fastly13 of 191Not in the top three

Bunny.net11 of 191Not in the top three

Akamai10 of 192Not in the top three

KeyCDN9 of 190Not in the top three

Google Cloud CDN8 of 190Not in the top three

Edgio6 of 190Not in the top three

Azure CDN4 of 190Not in the top three

BlazingCDN4 of 190Not 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 StackPath. 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 19 answers that named StackPath and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.blazingcdn.com12

fastly.com8

broadbandnow.com7

cloudinsight.cc4

techradar.com4

33rdsquare.com3

blog.paessler.com3

flashedgecdn.com3

g2.com3

wpforms.com3

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming StackPath came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers7

fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers6

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/best-enterprise-cdn-providers-compared4

33rdsquare.com/cdn-services3

blog.paessler.com/real-world-performance-comparison-of-cdn-content-delivery-network-provid3

cloudinsight.cc/en/blog/cdn-comparison3

flashedgecdn.com/blog/top-cdn-providers-compared3

techradar.com/reviews/stackpath3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as StackPath

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

StackPath (incorporating MaxCDN and Highwinds CDN) 1

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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 StackPath'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 StackPath, 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 stack.watch 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.