Web application firewalls · RankedBarracuda WAF
Barracuda WAF is a web application firewall from Barracuda that protects web applications and APIs, with multi-cloud protection · barracuda.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cloudflare WAF is first at 94%.
Cloudflare WAF is first at 85%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cloudflare WAF is first at 60%.
Why models recommend it
“Best for mid-market organizations wanting capable WAF without enterprise complexity”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Straightforward mid-market protection for web applications and APIs”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · alternative
“Best for Mid-Market Simplicity and Balance”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · alternative
“Best Balance of Simplicity & Cost”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Barracuda WAF, over the 19 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 16 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Barracuda WAF →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Barracuda WAF's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Financial Services
- Price stated
- simple, deterministic licensing
- Free plan or trial
- Try Free
- Customers named
- One North
- Also from Barracuda
- Barracuda Bot Protection, Barracuda Cloud Archive, Barracuda Cloud Archiving, Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and 12 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 18 of the 19 answers that named Barracuda WAF and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Barracuda WAF came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |