Web application firewalls for small business buyers
Asked as “web application firewall”, and as “WAF and bot protection service”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
93%
Cloudflare WAFClear leader
93Cloudflare WAF04Sucuri WAF02Super Bot Fight Mode
93% 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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the six 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 headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each
One product takes 93% 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. Three 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. GPT-5.4 mini and Perplexity Sonar 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.
Akamai App & API Protector71%
17 of 24 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 7 hard negative
“Enterprise-Grade "Call for Quote" WAFs (e.g., Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Advanced WAF)... Why to avoid them” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Imperva Cloud WAF63%
22 of 35 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 7 hard negative
“Enterprise-Grade Commercial WAFs (Imperva, Akamai, F5 BIG-IP ASM) Avoid unless you are being acquired by a Fortune 500 company.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
ModSecurity60%
9 of 15 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Unmanaged Open-Source WAFs (e.g., Raw ModSecurity)... Why to avoid them: While the software is free, the labor is incredibly expensive.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
AWS WAF22%
9 of 41 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“The Catch: It requires manual configuration, and AWS Bot Control is charged on a usage basis ... which can get expensive and complex to fine-tune” Gemini 3.5 Flash, paraphrase 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
64 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. 871 links across 198 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · CyberPress48 answers · 49 citations · 10 models
41 answers · 101 citations · 11 models
32 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
vendor site · open-appsec27 answers · 35 citations · 9 models
21 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · SourceForge17 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Indusface16 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
14 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Imperva13 answers · 14 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Radware12 answers · 17 citations · 4 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.
48 answers · 10 models
30 answers · 9 models
21 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 10 models
17 answers · 10 models
17 answers · 11 models
17 answers · 9 models
16 answers · 9 models
13 answers · 6 models
11 answers · 8 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 93%, Cloudflare Bot Management 0% | 93% | 185 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| Sucuri WAF sucuri.net | 4% | 67 | 70 | 1 | 87,613 | 15 | ||
| Super Bot Fight Mode | 2% | |||||||
| AWS parent site AWS WAF 0%, AWS Shield 0%, AWS WAF + Bot Control 0% | 0% | 154 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| Azure parent site Azure WAF 0%, Azure Web Application Firewall 0% | 0% | 49 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Fastly Next-Gen WAF fastly.com | 0% | 61 | 70 | 0 | 107,961 | $2,460 | 120 | |
| Indusface AppTrana indusface.com | 0% | 51 | 10 | 0 | 15,007 | 0 | 8 | |
| BunkerWeb bunkerweb.io | 0% | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Wordfence wordfence.com | 0% | 4 | ||||||
| Coraza coraza.io | 0% | 3 | 1,000 | 269 | 138 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (indusface.com, openappsec.io, reddit.com). 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 small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which WAF and bot protection service would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top web application firewalls for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best web application firewall for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a web application firewall. What should we look at?”Negative“Which web application firewalls should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Cloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb
One alternative
AWS WAFOne alternative
AWS WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare WAFagainst: Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAF, Super Bot Fight ModeChangedCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Web Application FirewallTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Cloudflare Bot ManagementThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: AWS WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurity, OWASP CorazaCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, ModSecurity
Four alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFPerplexity SonarCloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFChangedCloudflare WAFagainst: Sophos Web Application FirewallCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFno first choiceagainst: Barracuda WAF, Citrix NetScaler MPX WAF, Dell SonicWall WAF, F5 BIG-IP ASM
Three alternatives
DataDome, Radware Bot Manager, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFGrok 4.20Cloudflare WAFagainst: Azure WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Check Point CloudGuard WAF, F5 BIG-IP ASM, Imperva Cloud WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
AWS WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFMistral SmallCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Bunny Shieldno first choiceagainst: Dell, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, SonicWall
One alternative
Sucuri WAFOne alternative
Sophos Web Application FirewallOne alternative
Sucuri WAFDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurityCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda physical appliances, F5 BIG-IP ASM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity + OWASP CRS, NAXSI
One alternative
Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Coraza, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Microsoft Azure WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFLlama 4 MaverickCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare WAF
One alternative
Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Bunny.net, Identiqa WebShield, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Sophos Web Application Firewall, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP, F5 NGINX, Palo Alto VMsagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 Networks, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Set
Four alternatives
AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS Shield, Azure WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Set, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
AWS ShieldKimi K2Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: AWS WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAF, open-appsecFour alternatives
BunkerWeb, ModSecurity with OWASP CRS, SamWaf, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
AWS/Azure WAFGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP ASMCloudflare WAFagainst: Sucuri WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protectoragainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, OWASP Core Rule Set
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Imperva Cloud WAF, Indusface AppTranaFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sophos Firewall (XGS) WAF, Sucuri WAFFive alternatives
BunkerWeb, CacheGuard-OS, ModSecurity, OpenAppSec, WordfenceTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Sophos Web Application FirewallCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: F5 BIG-IP, FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Web Application Security, Sucuri WAF
Two alternatives
Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Azure WAF, Sucuri 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 13:43 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 14:02 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 11:31 | yes | 10 | 32 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 10:11 | yes | 20 | 4 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 13:12 | yes | 37 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:57 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:54 | yes | 12 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:52 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 10:31 | no | 0 | 40 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 12:45 | yes | 9 | 21 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 09:58 | yes | 14 | 216 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 12:22 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:09 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 12:18 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 12:05 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:28 | 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 11:49 | yes | 13 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 14:14 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 10:47 | yes | 9 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 11:55 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 12:09 | yes | 5 | 33 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:33 | yes | 10 | 52 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:50 | yes | 15 | 89 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 09:33 | yes | 5 | 39 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 10:45 | yes | 17 | 12 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 13:17 | yes | 6 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 12:15 | yes | 19 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 10:04 | yes | 20 | 8 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 10:55 | yes | 31 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:16 | yes | 20 | 14 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 13:24 | yes | 17 | 19 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 12:43 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 13:40 | yes | 10 | 42 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 09:56 | yes | 14 | 41 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 11:40 | yes | 29 | 33 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 13:45 | yes | 20 | 70 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 10:12 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 11:01 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 14:15 | yes | 7 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:06 | yes | 20 | 4 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 10:33 | yes | 28 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 11:28 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 10:24 | yes | 10 | 12 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 11:56 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 09:44 | yes | 5 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:43 | yes | 10 | 19 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 11:17 | yes | 8 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:08 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:47 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 11:38 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 14:04 | yes | 9 | 25 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 11:36 | 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 11:59 | yes | 13 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 10:55 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 13:00 | yes | 20 | 24 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 10:06 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 13:48 | no | 0 | 33 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:37 | yes | 13 | 26 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:30 | yes | 18 | 92 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:54 | no | 0 | 68 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 12:55 | yes | 19 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 10:12 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 13:11 | yes | 27 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 09:31 | yes | 20 | 13 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 11:03 | yes | 42 | 19 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:42 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 13:42 | yes | 28 | 44 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 11:28 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 12:13 | yes | 14 | 56 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:41 | yes | 26 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:31 | yes | 28 | 129 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 13:42 | yes | 13 | 39 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
Akamai read as Akamai App & API Protector
Barracuda read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Check Point WAF (formerly CloudGuard WAF) read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Pro Tier) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Free Tier read as Cloudflare WAF
F5 read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (Big-IP) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
Fastly read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fortinet read as Fortinet FortiWeb
Imperva read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Incapsula) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (now Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Incapsula (Imperva) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Indusface read as Indusface AppTrana
Sucuri read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Website Firewall read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Website Security read as Sucuri WAF
Unresolved, counted raw
Barracuda physical appliances
CacheGuard-OS
Dell SonicWall WAF
Fastly Web Application Security
Identiqa WebShield
ModSecurity with OWASP CRS
OpenAppSec (Community Edition)
Palo Alto VMs
SamWaf
Sophos Firewall (XGS) WAF
WebKnight
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.