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Leads at small business. Ranked 1 of 53 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is AWS Shield at 0%.
Ranked first. Next is Akamai Prolexic at 4%. 14 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Akamai Prolexic at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“Cloudflare (`1.1.1.2` for malware blocking, `1.1.1.3` for malware + adult content blocking) offers high-performance, privacy-focused filtering with strict no-log policies”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, I'd recommend starting with Cloudflare due to its balance of affordability, ease of deployment, and comprehensive protection”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“The best DDoS protection service for a company with a limited budget is Cloudflare, which offers a free version and a Pro plan starting at $20/month.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Often ranked #1 for overall value and ease of use... Start with your traffic sources (e.g., multi-cloud needs a neutral provider like Cloudflare).”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“investigate the back-end connection of 14 leading CDNs (including Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Amazon, and Fastly), where we could create an account... back-end TLS connections are vulnerable to security issues”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“A 2023 researcher demonstrated techniques to bypass their firewall/DDoS protection ... Heavy reliance on a single infrastructure creates concentration risk.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Cloudflare experienced three significant outages between 2020 and 2025, with November 2025 being its worst outage since 2019”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“be wary of its broad data logging, potential for "privacy-invasive" features ... Avoid if handling highly sensitive data”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare, over the 496 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 183 | 1 | View → | |
| 173 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 166 | 1 | View → | |
| 150 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 143 | 13 | View → | |
| 124 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 108 | 0 | View → | |
| 94 | 1 | View → | |
| 75 | 0 | View → | |
| 58 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudflare →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers, startups and the world’s largest enterprises
- Price stated
- Free plan $0/month; Pro $20/mo billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly; Business $200/mo billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly; Contract Custom billed annually; Zero Trust Free $0 forever; Pay-as-you-go $7/user/month; Contract Custom annual price per user; Developer platform Free and Paid starts at $5/month
- Starting price
- $0
- Free plan or trial
- Start building for free; No credit card needed
- Certifications
- PCI DSS
- Hosting
- 335+ cities around the world, 330+ cities instantly, Cloudflare's global network
- Customers named
- Shopify, Character.AI, Intercom, DoorDash, Discord, Zendesk, Lovable, npm
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 421 of the 496 answers that named Cloudflare and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
688 of the 917 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare 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 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 14 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Grok 4.20 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Mistral Small | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Kimi K2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 690 | 71 | 2026-09-28 | SASE, SIEM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 458 | undated | SASE | ||
| Case study | 262 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 71 | 23 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 46 | 12 | 2026-08-14 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 32 | 1 | 2026-07-22 | ||
| Podcast or video | 29 | undated | SASE | ||
| Comparison | 23 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | SASE | |
| News or press | 7 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-23 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Introducing the cold start blog
- 2026-09-28Vinext nextjs on vite blog
- 2026-09-28Cloudflare cf cli launch blog
- 2026-09-28Forge open source generation pipeline blog
- 2026-09-28How fast is the web blog
- 2026-09-28Emdash cms plugin registry blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloudflare.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SASE (11); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.