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. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
94%
Consensus
94Cloudflare WAF02Cloudflare Bot Management02Cloudflare Business Plan02others
94% of first choices, consensus.
Since October 2026▲+15Since October 2026: 79% → 94%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Cloudflare WAF held the lead, +15 points on 79%, 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.This pageMid-marketCloudflare WAF85%Clear leader▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare 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.This pageMid-marketCloudflare WAF85%Clear leader▲+16Since October 2026: 69% → 85%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare 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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Cloudflare WAF94%9%79endorsed leader▲+15Since October 2026: 79% → 94%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.79% → 94%
Cloudflare WAF94%9%79endorsed leader▲+15Since October 2026: 79% → 94%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.79% → 94%02
Sucuri WAF2%12%51accepted challenger▼−9Since October 2026: 11% → 2%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 2%
Sucuri WAF2%12%51accepted challenger▼−9Since October 2026: 11% → 2%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 2%Show the seven products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%90%10criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%90%10criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%07
Akamai App & API Protector0%71%14criticized challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
Akamai App & API Protector0%71%14criticized challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%09
Imperva Cloud WAF0%64%33criticized challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
Imperva Cloud WAF0%64%33criticized challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%06
ModSecurity0%50%18criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
ModSecurity0%50%18criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%05
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%26%19criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%26%19criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%03
AWS WAF0%14%58accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
AWS WAF0%14%58accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%04
Azure WAF0%11%19accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Azure WAF0%11%19accepted 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 headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.
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 94% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight 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. Five 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. GPT-5.4 mini 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.
Imperva Cloud WAF64%
21 of 33 labels negative · 10 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Weaknesses: Expensive, especially for small businesses. Complex configuration may require specialized technical personnel.” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
AWS WAF14%
8 of 58 labels negative · 8 of 14 models
“the pricing structure includes components like Web ACL, Rule, Bot control, and Fraud Control, which requires paying part by part and can be annoying for small businesses” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Akamai App & API Protector71%
10 of 14 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“criticized or have low adoption rates in recent comparisons, suggesting they may not be the best fit” Mistral Small, negative prompt
ModSecurity50%
9 of 18 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“Why cautious/avoid: It's free but demands significant security expertise to configure, tune rules, and maintain.” Grok 4.20, negative 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
71 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. 728 links across 142 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 · G241 answers · 52 citations · 11 models
33 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Cloudflare28 answers · 52 citations · 11 models
27 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
20 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Cloudflare19 answers · 34 citations · 7 models
publisher (Gane)19 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Imperva17 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
16 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Amazon15 answers · 24 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Check Point15 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 14 citations · 7 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.
37 answers · 11 models
33 answers · 10 models
19 answers · 9 models
18 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 7 models
16 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 9 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 94%, Cloudflare Bot Management 2%, Cloudflare Business Plan 2% | 98% | 185 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| Sucuri WAF sucuri.net | 2% | 67 | 70 | 1 | 87,613 | 15 | ||
| AWS parent site AWS WAF 0%, AWS WAF + Bot Control 0%, AWS Bot Control 0% | 0% | 154 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| Azure parent site Azure WAF 0%, Azure Web Application Firewall 0%, Azure Firewall 0% | 0% | 49 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Fastly Next-Gen WAF fastly.com | 0% | 61 | 70 | 0 | 107,961 | $2,460 | 120 | |
| open-appsec openappsec.io | 0% | 9 | 90 | 1 | 1,651 | 2 | ||
| Wordfence wordfence.com | 0% | 4 | ||||||
| SafeLine | 0% | |||||||
| Google Cloud google.dev Google Cloud Armor 0% | 0% | 55 | 165,000 | 7,596 | 881,346 | 109 | ||
| NGINX nginx.org | 0% | 152 | 33,100 | 4,362 | 38,473 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aws.amazon.com, checkpoint.com, cloudflare.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 WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAF
Three alternatives
Azure WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, NetaceaFour alternatives
Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF, Prophaze WAF, SafeLineOne alternative
MS Azure WAFGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare WAFCloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare WAFChangedCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, OWASP ModSecurity + OWASP CRSGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Fastly Next-Gen WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: BunkerWeb, OWASP CorazaCloudflare WAFagainst: NGINX ModSecurityagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai Kona Site Defender, Azure WAF, Barracuda CloudGen WAF, Citrix ADC WAF, Coraza, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Incapsula, ModSecurity, Radware AppWall
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, GCP Cloud Armor, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAF, WordfenceFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Google Cloud ArmorPerplexity SonarCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, DataDome, HUMAN Bot Defender, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Barracuda Application Protection, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: ModSecurity, NAXSIno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva on-premises, Sucuri WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Sucuri WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Sucuri WAF, WallarmTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFGrok 4.20Cloudflare WAFagainst: Barracuda WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, HAProxy, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, Radware Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurityCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure WAF, ModSecurity
Six alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Indusface AppTrana, Radware Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFFive alternatives
AWS Bot Control, AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Application Gateway with WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFMistral SmallCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Radware Cloud WAF ServiceCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: ANS Web Application Firewall, Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, FortiWeb, Indusface AppTrana, Sucuri WAF
One alternative
AWS WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
CacheGuard, ModSecurityDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Fortinet FortiWebCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurityagainst: Akamai Kona, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Enterprise Imperva, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Sucuri WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Sucuri WAFLlama 4 MaverickCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare WAF, FortiWeb
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Indusface AppTranaQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, mod_securityagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure Application Gateway, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAF
Two alternatives
Azure WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
DataDome, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, ModSecurity, NGINXTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure FirewallKimi K2Cloudflare WAFCloudflare Business PlanChangedCloudflare WAFagainst: Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: OWASP ModSecurity + CRSCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, Sucuri WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, ModSecurity + OWASP CRS, open-appsecTwo alternatives
Sucuri WAF, open-appsecFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Front Door WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, open-appsecGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare WAFagainst: Akamai WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWebCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Azure Front Door, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Citrix ADC, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFSix alternatives
BunkerWeb, Coraza, ModSecurity, NAXSI, SafeLine, Sucuri WAFMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAF
Three alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 NGINX App Protect, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, ModSecurityGPT-6 LunaCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFagainst: Azure WAF on Front Door, Fastly Next-Gen WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure Front Door, Cloudflare WAF, ModSecurity
One alternative
AWS WAFOne alternative
AWS WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Sucuri WAFOne alternative
AWS WAFMuse Glimmer 30BCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: Akamai Kona Site Defender, Akamai WAF, Cloudflare WAF custom rules, F5 Advanced WAF, Fastly Web Application and API Security, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, NAXSI, Sucuri WAF
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
Imperva Cloud WAF, Sucuri WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Sucuri WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, ModSecurity, Sucuri WAF, WordfenceBold 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 16:16 | yes | 16 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:39 | yes | 2 | 5 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 13:52 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:11 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:17 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:10 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:23 | yes | 22 | 31 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:28 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:29 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:59 | yes | 14 | 52 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:01 | yes | 22 | 64 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 09:29 | yes | 8 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 17:47 | yes | 2 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:41 | yes | 14 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 16:39 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 18:14 | yes | 5 | 5 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 08:51 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:07 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:38 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:23 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 11:16 | yes | 21 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 13:31 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:40 | yes | 5 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:27 | yes | 14 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:40 | yes | 23 | 44 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:58 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:20 | yes | 4 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 15:00 | yes | 13 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 19:27 | yes | 14 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 17:40 | yes | 4 | 6 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 16:06 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:11 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:41 | yes | 5 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:54 | yes | 9 | 13 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:15 | yes | 23 | 48 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:39 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:26 | yes | 5 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:48 | yes | 15 | 32 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 08:35 | yes | 21 | 43 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:29 | yes | 10 | 25 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:52 | yes | 10 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 12:23 | yes | 18 | 38 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 16:34 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:50 | yes | 3 | 5 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 19:38 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:01 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:16 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:00 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 08:52 | yes | 14 | 16 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:55 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:15 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:20 | yes | 10 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:57 | yes | 10 | 49 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:32 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:28 | yes | 3 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:47 | yes | 13 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:58 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 11:44 | 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 17:09 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:28 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:41 | yes | 9 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 16:12 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 17:34 | yes | 17 | 45 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:19 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:09 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:00 | yes | 5 | 27 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:02 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:40 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 13:38 | yes | 2 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:07 | yes | 14 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:16 | yes | 19 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:57 | yes | 4 | 5 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 19:40 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:40 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:14 | yes | 14 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:18 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 17:41 | yes | 24 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 13:20 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 12:16 | yes | 10 | 39 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 14:17 | yes | 22 | 56 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:16 | yes | 25 | 93 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:21 | yes | 10 | 107 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:20 | yes | 4 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:51 | yes | 23 | 42 s |
Normalization in this category
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Category-scoped readings
Akamai read as Akamai App & API Protector
Barracuda read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Check Point WAF read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Check Point WAF (CloudGuard) read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Citrix read as Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Pro / Business Tier) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Business read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Pro read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall read as Cloudflare WAF
F5 read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
Fastly read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fortinet read as Fortinet FortiWeb
HUMAN read as HUMAN Bot Defender
Imperva read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall (or Cloud WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Radware read as Radware Cloud WAF
Sucuri read as Sucuri WAF
Sucuri Website Firewall read as Sucuri WAF
open-appsec / CloudGuard WAF read as open-appsec
Unresolved, counted raw
ANS Web Application Firewall
Akamai App & API Pro
Akamai Kona
Atomic WAF
Azure Application Gateway with WAF
Azure WAF on Front Door
Barracuda CloudGen WAF
BotFighter
CacheGuard
Citrix ADC WAF
Cloudflare WAF custom rules
Enterprise Imperva
Imperva on-premises
MS Azure WAF
OWASP ModSecurity + CRS
OWASP ModSecurity + OWASP CRS
Squid Proxy
mod_security
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.