Web application firewalls
Asked as “web application firewall”, and as “WAF and bot protection service”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
89%
Cloudflare WAFClear leader
89Cloudflare WAF04AWS WAF02Cloudflare Bot Management04others
89% of first choices, clear leader.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to head
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each
One product takes 89% of first choices here, so the chart would put seven markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Two products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Ten of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.4 mini changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
ModSecurity56%
10 of 18 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid: Unmanaged Open Source (ModSecurity/CoreRuleSet) ... Do not install this unless you have a dedicated security engineer” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Imperva Cloud WAF29%
12 of 41 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid assuming Imperva's signature protections are sufficient — independent tests show they miss most attacks.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Akamai App & API Protector20%
6 of 30 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Why Not Akamai or Enterprise F5 for Mid-Market? ... you're paying for capacity you don't need.” Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt
AWS WAF12%
5 of 40 labels negative · 4 of 12 models
“Out of the box, AWS WAF is essentially a blank canvas... It requires deep cloud-engineering expertise to manage, meaning high operational overhead” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt
What they cite
Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
62 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 843 links across 200 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · open-appsec37 answers · 52 citations · 11 models
35 answers · 51 citations · 11 models
31 answers · 51 citations · 10 models
vendor site · CyberPress30 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
25 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Radware18 answers · 31 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Imperva18 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Fastly16 answers · 20 citations · 7 models
16 answers · 17 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Indusface12 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Guideflow11 answers · 11 citations · 6 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
29 answers · 10 models
25 answers · 10 models
23 answers · 7 models
20 answers · 10 models
19 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 9 models
15 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 6 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best web application firewall”, “web application firewall”, “web application firewalls”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare WAF 89%, Cloudflare Bot Management 2% | 91% | 185 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| AWS parent site AWS WAF 4%, AWS WAF + Bot Control 0% | 4% | 154 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| Fastly Next-Gen WAF fastly.com | 2% | 61 | 70 | 0 | 107,961 | $2,460 | 120 | |
| Sucuri WAF sucuri.net | 2% | 67 | 70 | 1 | 87,613 | 15 | ||
| Imperva Cloud WAF imperva.com | 0% | 124 | 90 | 2 | 417,309 | |||
| Akamai parent site Akamai App & API Protector 0% | 0% | 96 | 27,100 | 1,614 | ||||
| Barracuda parent site Barracuda Web Application Firewall 0%, Barracuda WAF 0% | 0% | 18 | 201,000 | 10,561 | ||||
| Fortinet parent site Fortinet FortiWeb 0% | 0% | 41 | 49,500 | 2,339 | ||||
| open-appsec openappsec.io | 0% | 9 | 90 | 1 | 1,651 | 2 | ||
| F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF f5.com | 0% | 50 | 50 | 0 | 178,423 | $5 | 120 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aimultiple.com, indusface.com, openappsec.io). The first result for “best web application firewall” is gartner.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best web application firewall for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which WAF and bot protection service would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top web application firewalls and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best web application firewall for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a web application firewall. What should we look at?”Negative“Which web application firewalls should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurity, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFChangedagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
One alternative
Fortinet FortiWAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application FirewallFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, ModSecurityGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare WAFCloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare WAFChangedCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Distributed Cloud WAFThree alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFSix alternatives
AWS WAF, Coraza, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAF, ModSecurityOne alternative
AWS WAFGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFagainst: AWS WAF, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
DataDome, Fastly Next-Gen WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, BunkerWeb, Sucuri WAF, open-appsecFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Indusface AppTrana, Prophaze WAFPerplexity SonarCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Barracuda Web Application FirewallFour alternatives
Barracuda WAF, Cequence Security, DataDome, FortiWebSeven alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAFTwo alternatives
BunkerWeb, Sucuri WAFGrok 4.20Cloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, Shadow Daemon, Veles
One alternative
Barracuda WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Barracuda WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAF, WordfenceTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFMistral SmallCloudflare WAFagainst: Fastly Next-Gen WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFno first choiceagainst: Artofdefence Hyperguard Web Application Firewall, Radware AppWall, phion airlock Web Application Firewall
One alternative
Barracuda WAFTwo alternatives
Barracuda Web Application Firewall, ReblazeEight alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Wallarm WAF, open-appsecOne alternative
open-appsecDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAF, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application FirewallOne alternative
AWS WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Radware Cloud WAFFive alternatives
ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Set, SafeLine, Sucuri WAF, open-appsecLlama 4 MaverickCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Artofdefence Hyperguard Web Application Firewall, Radware AppWall, phion airlock Web Application Firewall
Two alternatives
Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Fastly Next-Gen WAFTwo alternatives
ModSecurity with OWASP Core Rule Set, Sucuri WAFQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IPCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure Firewall WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cisco, Google Cloud Armor, ModSecurity, Netscreen, OWASP Core Rule Set
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Amazon Shield, Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
Coraza WAF, ModSecurity, StackPathKimi K2Cloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IPCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFAWS WAF, Cloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, Google Cloud Armor, ModSecurity, Radware Cloud WAF
One alternative
Barracuda WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service, DataDome, HUMAN Bot Defender, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
Coraza, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFno first choiceagainst: Barracuda Web Application Firewall, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IPThree alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
BunkerWeb, ModSecurity + OWASP CRS, Sucuri Basic PlatformMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAFagainst: Coraza, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAF, Radware Cloud WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva Cloud WAFBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 12:48 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 10:34 | yes | 4 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 11:37 | yes | 12 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:18 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 11:39 | yes | 44 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:15 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:12 | yes | 18 | 19 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 10:51 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:24 | yes | 9 | 35 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 12:35 | yes | 9 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:15 | yes | 12 | 103 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 12:25 | yes | 9 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 12:27 | yes | 16 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 14:01 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 10:24 | yes | 15 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 11:39 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 09:35 | yes | 16 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 12:00 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:29 | yes | 10 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 12:25 | yes | 9 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:35 | no | 0 | 47 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:59 | yes | 10 | 62 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:31 | yes | 18 | 80 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 13:13 | yes | 5 | 37 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 09:44 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 12:51 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 11:16 | yes | 20 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 14:09 | yes | 20 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 10:21 | yes | 26 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 10:20 | yes | 9 | 11 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-09-17 13:40 | yes | 28 | 79 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 14:08 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 09:55 | no | 0 | 39 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:11 | yes | 10 | 50 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 12:13 | no | 0 | 139 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 14:15 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 12:34 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 09:23 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 10:44 | yes | 12 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:05 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 11:50 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 11:47 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 09:58 | yes | 10 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 12:41 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 10:13 | no | 0 | 35 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:56 | yes | 10 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 14:09 | yes | 27 | 59 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 12:45 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:59 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 10:47 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 13:49 | yes | 11 | 24 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 11:12 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 13:18 | yes | 17 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 11:33 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 09:56 | yes | 18 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 11:02 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:38 | no | 0 | 38 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:12 | yes | 9 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 11:00 | yes | 14 | 114 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:18 | yes | 5 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:54 | yes | 17 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 11:54 | yes | 4 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 12:38 | yes | 24 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:45 | yes | 20 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 10:08 | yes | 42 | 16 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 12:43 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:51 | yes | 27 | 44 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:49 | yes | 8 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 12:42 | no | 0 | 41 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:59 | yes | 26 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 12:24 | yes | 24 | 61 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:44 | yes | 10 | 20 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
AWS WAFv2 read as AWS WAF
Akamai read as Akamai App & API Protector
Barracuda read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Barracuda (WAAP) read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Barracuda (WAF & ESG appliances) read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Check Point CloudGuard read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Free Plan) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Free Tier) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall read as Cloudflare WAF
F5 read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (BIG-IP Advanced WAF / NGINX App Protect / Distributed Cloud WAAP) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
Fastly read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fastly (Signal Sciences) read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fastly WAF read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Human Security (PerimeterX) read as HUMAN Bot Defender
Imperva read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Cloud WAF/Advanced WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Incapsula) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Professional read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF (now Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF (part of Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall (by Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Incapsula read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Prophaze read as Prophaze WAF
Radware read as Radware Cloud WAF
Sucuri read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Firewall read as Sucuri WAF
open-appsec / CloudGuard WAF read as open-appsec
open-appsec/CloudGuard read as open-appsec
open‑appsec CloudGuard read as open-appsec
Unresolved, counted raw
Amazon Shield
Azure Firewall WAF
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
DenyAll
Fortinet FortiWAF
Google Cloud WAF
HUMAN Technologies
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (WAF)
Netscreen
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud WAF
Shadow Daemon
Sucuri Basic Platform
Veles
Wallarm WAF
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.