Web application firewalls for enterprise buyers
Asked as “web application firewall”, and as “WAF and bot protection service”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
60%
Clear leader
60Cloudflare WAF19Imperva Cloud WAF08Akamai App & API Protector13others
60% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Cloudflare WAF held the lead, +1 point on 59%, inside the 11-point 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.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare WAF60%Clear leader▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This page
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.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare WAF60%Clear leader▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageThe standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Cloudflare WAF60%6%70endorsed leader▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.59% → 60%
Cloudflare WAF60%6%70endorsed leader▲+1Since October 2026: 59% → 60%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.59% → 60%02
Imperva Cloud WAF19%12%66accepted challenger▲+7Since October 2026: 12% → 19%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 19%
Imperva Cloud WAF19%12%66accepted challenger▲+7Since October 2026: 12% → 19%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 19%03
Akamai App & API Protector8%16%63accepted challenger▼−8Since October 2026: 16% → 8%, −8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.16% → 8%
Akamai App & API Protector8%16%63accepted challenger▼−8Since October 2026: 16% → 8%, −8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.16% → 8%Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Azure WAF0%58%24criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Azure WAF0%58%24criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%08
AWS WAF0%44%55criticized challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
AWS WAF0%44%55criticized challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%07
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%29%31criticized challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 0%
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF0%29%31criticized challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 0%04
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%19%36accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 0%
Fastly Next-Gen WAF0%19%36accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 0%06
Radware Cloud WAF0%6%18accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Radware Cloud WAF0%6%18accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%05
Fortinet FortiWeb0%5%19accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Fortinet FortiWeb0%5%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.
For buyers
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
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 60% 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. Three products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Five of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B 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.
AWS WAF44%
24 of 55 labels negative · 13 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“A large enterprise should primarily avoid the financial risks associated with usage-based cloud-native WAFs (AWS/Azure/Fastly)” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Azure WAF58%
14 of 24 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“What to Avoid If Predictable Cost Is Your Priority ... Public Cloud WAFs (AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Google Cloud Armor)” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF29%
9 of 31 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Older on-premises or appliance-based solutions from vendors like F5 (e.g., older BIG-IP ASM versions)... Why avoid or be cautious” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Imperva Cloud WAF12%
8 of 66 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Imperva (legacy deployments)... Why avoid or be cautious” 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
72 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. 860 links across 195 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 · Imperva43 answers · 80 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Cloudflare32 answers · 60 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Akamai22 answers · 37 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Cloudflare21 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Check Point21 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Radware20 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · open-appsec19 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
17 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G217 answers · 19 citations · 10 models
16 answers · 18 citations · 8 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.
20 answers · 9 models
18 answers · 10 models
18 answers · 8 models
18 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 9 models
15 answers · 9 models
14 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 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 60% | 60% | 185 | 550,000 | 10,897 | |||
| Imperva Cloud WAF imperva.com | 19% | 124 | 90 | 2 | 417,309 | ||
| Akamai parent site Akamai App & API Protector 8%, Akamai App & API Protector + Bot Manager 4%, Akamai Kona Site Defender 0% | 12% | 96 | 27,100 | 1,614 | |||
| AWS parent site AWS WAF + Bot Control 2%, AWS Shield 0% | 2% | 154 | 368,000 | 114,001 | |||
| Cisco Advanced WAF and Bot Protection | 2% | ||||||
| Cloudflare Enterprise WAF plus Bot Management | 2% | ||||||
| Cloudflare Externa | 2% | ||||||
| Cloudflare WAF with Cloudflare Bot Management | 2% | ||||||
| Fastly Next-Gen WAF fastly.com | 0% | 61 | 70 | 0 | 107,961 | $2,460 | 120 |
| Fortinet parent site Fortinet FortiWeb 0% | 0% | 41 | 49,500 | 2,339 |
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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which WAF and bot protection service would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade web application firewalls and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best web application firewall for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a web application firewall. What should we look at?”Negative“Which web application firewalls should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAFno first choiceagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF
Five alternatives
AWS WAF, Barracuda WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Azure Front Door WAF, NetScaler WAFGPT-5.4 miniAkamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFAkamai App & API Protector + Bot ManagerChangedCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFno first choicenothing named
Five alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Google Cloud ArmorThree alternatives
AWS WAF, AWS WAF + Bot Control, Cloudflare WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai Kona Site Defender, Azure Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFOne alternative
Akamai App & API ProtectorGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Google Cloud ArmorCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Coraza, GCP Cloud Armor, ModSecurity, Wordfence, cPanel default WAFs, iThemes Security
Seven alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAF, Signal SciencesTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAFSeven alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Signal SciencesPerplexity SonarImperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAF with Cloudflare Bot ManagementChangedAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protectorno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, FortiWeb
Five alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare Application Security, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFFive alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai App & API Protector, HUMAN Bot Defender, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFEight alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFGrok 4.20Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFImperva Cloud WAFChangedAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity
Three alternatives
F5 NGINX App Protect or BIG-IP, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Radware Cloud WAFThree alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFFive alternatives
F5 Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFTen alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Imperva Cloud WAF, Salt Security, Traceable, WallarmMistral SmallCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldno first choiceCloudflare Externaagainst: Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Barracuda WAF, F5 NGINX App Protect, Fortinet FortiWeb
Three alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare WAFImperva Cloud WAFChangedagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Sucuri WAFAkamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure Front Door WAF, Azure WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFno first choiceagainst: Barracuda Application Protection, Barracuda WAF, Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall, F5 BIG-IP ASM, FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, ModSecurity, Varnish-based WAFs
Five alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFFour alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWebThree alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFLlama 4 MaverickCloudflare WAFAWS WAF + Bot Control, Cisco Advanced WAF and Bot ProtectionChangedno first choiceCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFnothing named
Three alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFOne alternative
Cloudflare WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFHeldCloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAFCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure Firewallagainst: AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Microsoft Azure WAF, ModSecurity
Five alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, F5 NGINX, Thales Imperva Cloud WAFThree alternatives
Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
F5 Distributed Cloud Services, Imperva Cloud WAFFive alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFKimi K2Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: Akamai App & API ProtectorAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFChangedagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAFAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAFAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Legacy Citrix/NetScaler WAFs, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
F5 Web App & API Protection, Fortinet FortiWebOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFSeven alternatives
AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP ASM, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAFOne alternative
Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
AWS WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare WAFAkamai App & API Protector + Bot ManagerChangedno first choiceCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAFno first choiceagainst: Sucuri WAF
Five alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Radware Cloud WAF, VMware Avi WAAPTwo alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, Imperva Cloud WAFSix alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFOne alternative
Akamai App & API ProtectorMiniMax M2.5Imperva Cloud WAFImperva Cloud WAFHeldF5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Fortinet FortiWebCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, GCP Cloud Armorno first choiceagainst: AWS Cloud Armor, AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Amazon CloudFront, Azure Application Gateway, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP ASM, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF
Three alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAFTwo alternatives
Cloudflare WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseSix alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Microsoft Azure WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFGPT-6 LunaCloudflare WAFCloudflare Enterprise WAF plus Bot ManagementChangedno first choiceCloudflare WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, FortiWeb, ModSecurity
Two alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API ProtectorTwo alternatives
AWS WAF + Bot Control, Akamai App & API Protector + Bot ManagerOne alternative
AWS WAFThree alternatives
AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFMuse Glimmer 30BAkamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFCloudflare WAFChangedAkamai App & API Protector, Cloudflare WAFCloudflare WAFagainst: AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAFno first choiceagainst: AWS WAF, Akamai App & API Protector, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Imperva Cloud WAF, Palo Alto, Radware Cloud WAF
One alternative
Cloudflare WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, Imperva Cloud WAFFour alternatives
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Imperva Cloud WAFTwo alternatives
Akamai App & API Protector, 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.
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 13:17 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:03 | yes | 4 | 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 15:47 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 08:43 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:39 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:24 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 11:17 | yes | 20 | 50 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 17:27 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:03 | yes | 5 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 15:22 | yes | 14 | 42 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:01 | yes | 24 | 36 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:14 | yes | 13 | 43 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:35 | yes | 3 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:44 | yes | 13 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:02 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 17:42 | yes | 3 | 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 13:53 | yes | 18 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:50 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:08 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:14 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 13:11 | yes | 25 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:04 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 19:05 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:02 | yes | 14 | 46 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:46 | yes | 15 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 13:57 | yes | 14 | 42 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:57 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:13 | yes | 13 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 17:49 | yes | 18 | 14 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:00 | 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 13:18 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:47 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:28 | yes | 10 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:39 | yes | 12 | 10 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 08:36 | yes | 20 | 40 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:42 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:53 | yes | 9 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:25 | yes | 10 | 84 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:33 | yes | 25 | 154 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:02 | yes | 10 | 33 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:09 | yes | 10 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 15:44 | yes | 14 | 30 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:05 | yes | 19 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:03 | 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 17:49 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:29 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:59 | yes | 10 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:28 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:42 | yes | 22 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:05 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:03 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:30 | yes | 15 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 08:36 | yes | 23 | 53 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:18 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 19:15 | yes | 5 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 18:25 | yes | 13 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 09:06 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 19:33 | yes | 0 | 8 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 11:35 | no | 0 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:46 | yes | 10 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:23 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:44 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:56 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 10:20 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:21 | no | 0 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:49 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:54 | yes | 23 | 49 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:34 | no | 0 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:29 | yes | 3 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:18 | yes | 15 | 32 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 09:17 | yes | 28 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:41 | yes | 4 | 6 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 14:23 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 13:00 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:48 | yes | 25 | 15 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 14:45 | yes | 15 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:53 | yes | 24 | 52 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 11:21 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:28 | yes | 5 | 62 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:11 | yes | 25 | 38 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 19:08 | yes | 24 | 72 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:58 | yes | 13 | 54 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:13 | yes | 4 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:07 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
Normalization in this category
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Category-scoped readings
AWS read as AWS WAF
Akamai read as Akamai App & API Protector
Akamai (App & API Protector + Bot Manager) read as Akamai App & API Protector
Akamai (App & API Protector) read as Akamai App & API Protector
Amazon Web Services read as AWS WAF
Barracuda read as Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Check Point WAF read as Check Point CloudGuard WAF
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (Enterprise Plan) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare (WAF + Bot Management / Turnstile) read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Enterprise read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Enterprise WAF read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare WAF / WAAP read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall read as Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) read as Cloudflare WAF
F5 read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (Advanced / NGINX App Protect) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (Advanced WAF) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (BIG-IP Advanced WAF / Distributed Cloud WAAP) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (BIG-IP WAF / Silverline) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (e.g., older BIG-IP ASM versions) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (formerly F5 NGINX App Protect) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 (traditional ASM) read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
F5 WAF read as F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF
Fastly read as Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Fortinet read as Fortinet FortiWeb
Fortinet (FortiWeb) read as Fortinet FortiWeb
Imperva read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (App Protect & Advanced Bot Protection) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Imperva Cloud WAF) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (Incapsula/SecureSphere) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (WAAP Platform) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (by Thales) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva (legacy deployments) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva WAF read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF/WAAP) read as Imperva Cloud WAF
Radware read as Radware Cloud WAF
Radware (AppWave / CloudWAF) read as Radware Cloud WAF
Sucuri read as Sucuri WAF
open-appsec/CloudGuard read as open-appsec
Unresolved, counted raw
AWS Cloud Armor
AWS WAF+Shield
Cisco Advanced WAF and Bot Protection
Cloudflare Enterprise WAF plus Bot Management
Cloudflare Externa
Cloudflare WAF with Cloudflare Bot Management
F5 NGINX App Protect or BIG-IP
Legacy Citrix/NetScaler WAFs
NetScaler WAF
Oracle WAF
Signal Science
Thales Imperva Cloud WAF
VMware Avi WAAP
Varnish-based WAFs
cPanel default WAFs
iThemes Security
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.