Bot management · RankedCloudflare Bot Manager
Cloudflare Bot Manager is a bot management product from Cloudflare that provides protection against bot traffic at the edge, within its CDN platform · cloudflare.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 Bot Management is first at 82%.
Cloudflare Bot Management is first at 60%.
Cloudflare Bot Management is first at 36%.
Why models recommend it
“start with Cloudflare Bot Manager or AppTrana, as they offer free or low-cost plans with robust features”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For most organizations, Cloudflare, Imperva, and Akamai are top choices for scalability and integration”Mistral Small · Comparative question · first choice
“Cloudflare Bot Manager or Imperva Advanced Bot Management are the best all-around choices”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Start with Cloudflare's free tier - it's surprisingly effective, requires no configuration”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Bot Manager, over the 12 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare Bot Manager's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- customers who want to protect their websites, mobile applications, or APIs
- Free plan or trial
- Start building for free — no credit card required.
- Customers named
- Carrefour
- Also from Cloudflare
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare API Gateway, Cloudflare API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Cloudflare Access and 43 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Cloudflare Bot Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-three of the fifty-two domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Bot Manager 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |