3 categories · RankedCloudflare Gateway
Cloudflare Gateway is a DNS filtering and secure web gateway product from Cloudflare, offered as part of its Zero Trust platform · cloudflare.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 3 of 66 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
DNSFilter is first at 40%.
DNSFilter is first at 52%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cisco Umbrella is first at 52%.
Why models recommend it
“my default recommendation is Cloudflare Gateway if you want the best overall balance of security, scalability, and broader zero-trust capabilities”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“If you have almost no budget, start with Cloudflare Gateway (free for 50 users) or Quad9 (completely free).”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best value / SMB & MSP options are commonly cited as Cloudflare Gateway and DNSFilter for fast, transparent pricing”Muse Glimmer 30B · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Cloudflare Gateway stands out as the best DNS filtering service for a company with a limited budget.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“though I didn’t see as strong a DNS-security-first positioning in the sources I checked as compared with Cisco and Infoblox”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Gateway, over the 147 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | 45 | Compare → | |
| 124 | 34 | Compare → | |
| 55 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 1 | View → | |
| 49 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudflare Gateway →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare Gateway's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Enterprise customers
- Price stated
- at a fraction of the cost
- Free plan or trial
- The Monetization Gateway waitlist is open now for Cloudflare customers.
- Hosting
- our global network, our network, our edge
- Customers named
- api.cloudflare.com
- 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 134 of the 147 answers that named Cloudflare Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
478 of the 478 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Gateway 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |