Web application firewalls
Asked as “web application firewall”, and as “WAF and bot protection service”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
85%
Clear leader
85Cloudflare WAF04Sucuri WAF02AWS WAF09others
85% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Cloudflare WAF held the lead, +16 points on 69%, past the floor.
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.
Small business
Cloudflare WAF94%Consensus▲+15Since October 2026: 79% → 94%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare WAF85%Clear leader▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare WAF60%Clear leader▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →
Cloudflare WAF94%Consensus▲+15Since October 2026: 79% → 94%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare WAF85%Clear leader▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare WAF60%Clear leader▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Cloudflare WAF85%6%70endorsed leader▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.69% → 85%
Cloudflare WAF85%6%70endorsed leader▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.69% → 85%02
Sucuri WAF4%12%17accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 4%
Sucuri WAF4%12%17accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 4%03
AWS WAF2%11%56accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 2%
AWS WAF2%11%56accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 2%04
Imperva Cloud WAF2%20%46accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Imperva Cloud WAF2%20%46accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%05
Barracuda WAF2%0%10accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%
Barracuda WAF2%0%10accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%06
ModSecurity2%50%20criticized challenger▼−6Since October 2026: 8% → 2%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.8% → 2%
ModSecurity2%50%20criticized challenger▼−6Since October 2026: 8% → 2%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.8% → 2%Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Akamai App & API Protector0%26%31criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Akamai App & API Protector0%26%31criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%10
Azure WAF0%25%16criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Azure WAF0%25%16criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%11
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%24%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%24%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%12
Radware Cloud WAF0%18%11accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
Radware Cloud WAF0%18%11accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%09
Fortinet FortiWeb0%12%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Fortinet FortiWeb0%12%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%07
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%8%25accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%8%25accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
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 fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each
Cloudflare WAF vs Barracuda WAFCloudflare WAF vs ModSecuritySucuri WAF vs AWS WAFSucuri WAF vs Imperva Cloud WAFSucuri WAF vs Barracuda WAFSucuri WAF vs ModSecurityAWS WAF vs Imperva Cloud WAFAWS WAF vs Barracuda WAFAWS WAF vs ModSecurityImperva Cloud WAF vs Barracuda WAFImperva Cloud WAF vs ModSecurityBarracuda WAF vs ModSecurity
One product takes 85% of first choices here, so the chart would put eleven 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
Twelve of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5 and Kimi K2 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.
ModSecurity50%
10 of 20 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Do not install this unless you are prepared to spend weeks maintaining the OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS). An unpatched open-source WAF is often less secure” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Imperva Cloud WAF20%
9 of 46 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Imperva SecureSphere due to the documented critical bypass CVEs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
AWS WAF11%
6 of 56 labels negative · 5 of 14 models
“Out-of-the-box cloud WAF rules (e.g., basic default AWS WAF or Azure WAF rules) without fine-tuning either block legitimate traffic or miss application-specific flaws.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Akamai App & API Protector26%
8 of 31 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid enterprise solutions (Imperva, Akamai, F5)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
70 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 762 links across 201 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 38 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · Imperva30 answers · 53 citations · 12 models
vendor site · open-appsec22 answers · 29 citations · 9 models
21 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Cloudflare19 answers · 37 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Cloudflare18 answers · 30 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Fastly18 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
17 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
16 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Check Point15 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Radware12 answers · 15 citations · 5 models
vendor site · G211 answers · 13 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.
21 answers · 9 models
19 answers · 9 models
13 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 6 models
9 answers · 5 models
9 answers · 5 models
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare WAF 85%, Cloudflare Business Plan 2% | 87% | 185 | 550,000 | 10,897 | |||
| Sucuri WAF sucuri.net | 4% | 67 | 70 | 1 | 87,613 | 15 | |
| AWS parent site AWS WAF 2%, AWS Bot Control 0%, AWS WAF + Bot Control 0% | 2% | 154 | 368,000 | 114,001 | |||
| Imperva Cloud WAF imperva.com | 2% | 124 | 90 | 2 | 417,309 | ||
| Barracuda parent site Barracuda WAF 2%, Barracuda Web Application Firewall 0% | 2% | 18 | 201,000 | 10,561 | |||
| ModSecurity modsecurity.org | 2% | 38 | 590 | 55 | 1,098 | ||
| Fastly Next-Gen WAF fastly.com | 0% | 61 | 70 | 0 | 107,961 | $2,460 | 120 |
| Akamai parent site Akamai App & API Protector 0% | 0% | 96 | 27,100 | 1,614 | |||
| Fortinet parent site Fortinet FortiWeb 0% | 0% | 41 | 49,500 | 2,339 | |||
| Azure parent site Azure WAF 0%, Azure Web Application Firewall 0% | 0% | 49 | 301,000 | 47,904 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (checkpoint.com, cloudflare.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 4.5Barracuda WAFAWS WAF, Cloudflare WAFChangedagainst: Akamai Kona Site DefenderCloudflare WAFSucuri WAFno first choiceagainst: Azure WAF, F5 BIG-IP, Imperva Cloud WAF
Two alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, Microsoft Azure WAFOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAF, ModSecurity with OWASP Core Rule SetGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, F5 Web App & API Protection, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAFGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva App ProtectFour alternatives
AWS Bot Control, AWS WAF, DataDome, Fastly Next-Gen WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, BunkerWeb, OWASP CorazaSix alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFPerplexity SonarCloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API ProtectorCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: BunkerWebno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Imperva Cloud WAFSeven alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFGrok 4.20Cloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, ModSecurityCloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: ModSecurityModSecurityagainst: AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAF
Four alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFThree alternatives
AWS Bot Control, AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Advanced WAF, Radware Cloud WAFFour alternatives
BunkerWeb, Coraza WAF, Haltdos Community Edition, NAXSIFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFMistral SmallCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: NGINX ModSecurity, open-appsecno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva SecureSphereThree alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Advanced Bot Management, Radware Cloud WAF ServiceFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai Kona Site Defender, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, ModSecurity, Radware Cloud WAFno first choiceCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFImperva Cloud WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAF, Imperva SecureSphere, Microsoft Azure WAF, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service, Imperva Application SecurityThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFEight alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFThree alternatives
Barracuda WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWebLlama 4 MaverickCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
One alternative
AWS WAFQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF modules, Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP, Fortinet FortiWeb, Google Cloud Armor, ModSecurity, SonicWall, WatchGuard
Four alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Front Door, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, HUMAN Bot DefenderTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFKimi K2Cloudflare WAFCloudflare Business PlanChangedno first choiceagainst: Azure WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, DataDome, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
Coraza, ModSecurity, NAXSI, Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurityCloudflare WAFno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Coraza, F5 NGINX App Protect WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, BunkerWeb, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare WAFagainst: SiteLock, Sucuri WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceSucuri WAFno first choiceagainst: Radware Cloud WAF
Seven alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAF ServiceFive alternatives
AWS Bot Control, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAFTwo alternatives
Atomicorp ModSecurity Rules, Cloudflare WAFGPT-6 LunaCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFno first choiceagainst: FortiWeb
One alternative
AWS WAFOne alternative
AWS WAFEight alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAFMuse Glimmer 30BCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: FortiWeb, ModSecurity, NGINX ModSecurity WAF, Qualys Web Application Firewall, Radware Cloud Web Application Firewall
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application FirewallTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFSix alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Amazon CloudFront, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
ModSecurity with OWASP Core Rule Set, 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.
Eighty-four 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 | 2026-11-01 15:16 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:29 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 15:09 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:23 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:23 | yes | 15 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:16 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:59 | yes | 21 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:26 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 14:18 | yes | 5 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 15:39 | yes | 18 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:14 | yes | 17 | 170 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 13:45 | yes | 5 | 84 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 08:59 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:42 | yes | 14 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:22 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:03 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 08:50 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:14 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:17 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:21 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:01 | yes | 20 | 41 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 08:56 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 17:05 | no | 0 | 32 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:09 | yes | 25 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:54 | yes | 25 | 189 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:58 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 17:18 | yes | 3 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 11:57 | yes | 15 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 09:43 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:57 | yes | 6 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 10:15 | no | 0 | 14 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 16:16 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:45 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:28 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:50 | yes | 20 | 49 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 16:29 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:08 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 19:31 | yes | 10 | 26 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:07 | yes | 25 | 108 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:37 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 17:15 | yes | 9 | 26 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:42 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 15:29 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:45 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 13:58 | yes | 8 | 22 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:44 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:35 | yes | 5 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:32 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:51 | yes | 19 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 16:09 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:47 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 09:44 | yes | 10 | 33 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 18:32 | yes | 10 | 140 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:50 | yes | 5 | 57 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:38 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:38 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:52 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:42 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 11:17 | no | 0 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:00 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:19 | yes | 10 | 14 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:00 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:24 | yes | 20 | 63 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:33 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:14 | no | 0 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 14:30 | yes | 14 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:54 | yes | 10 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 18:02 | no | 0 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:39 | yes | 4 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:18 | yes | 14 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 08:37 | yes | 18 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 18:26 | yes | 6 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:02 | yes | 8 | 19 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:00 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:20 | yes | 14 | 15 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 17:55 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 17:41 | yes | 23 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:57 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:29 | no | 0 | 33 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 19:14 | yes | 10 | 15 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:18 | yes | 25 | 56 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:54 | yes | 25 | 67 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:43 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 12:17 | yes | 24 | 37 s |
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Akamai read as Akamai App & API Protector
Akamai (App & API Protector) read as Akamai App & API Protector
Barracuda read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Check Point CloudGuard read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Enterprise / Business Tier) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Business read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Enterprise 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 WAF) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (BIG-IP/ASM) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (NGINX App Protect & Distributed Cloud WAAP) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (WAF by F5 Networks) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
Fastly read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fastly (Signal Sciences) read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fortinet read as Fortinet FortiWeb
HUMAN (formerly PerimeterX) read as HUMAN Bot Defender
Imperva read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Cloud WAAP) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Incapsula) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF (Cloud WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF (WAAP) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Radware read as Radware Cloud WAF
Sucuri read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Website Firewall read as Sucuri WAF
Unresolved, counted raw
Alert Logic WAF
Atomic WAF / Atomic ModSecurity Rules
Atomicorp ModSecurity Rules
Barracuda WAF modules
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
CSO Online
CacheGuard-OS
Citrix WAF
F5 XC
Haltdos Community Edition
Imperva App Protect
Imperva Application Security
NGINX ModSecurity WAF
Qualys Web Application Firewall
Radware Cloud Web Application Firewall
Signal Sciences WAF
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.