Client-side protection · RankedCloudflare Page Shield
Cloudflare Page Shield is a client-side protection product from Cloudflare · cloudflare.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Ranked 6 of 122 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is first at 19%.
cside is first at 18%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Feroot Security is first at 16%.
Why models recommend it
“For most mid-sized B2B companies already on Cloudflare, Cloudflare Client-side Security gives you script inventory, change alerting and PCI 6.4.3/11.6.1 evidence with near-zero ops overhead.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Cloudflare Client-Side Security (Page Shield) and Feroot Security are the best choices due to their free tiers and strong reputations.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you are on Cloudflare: Enable Cloudflare Page Shield. It is the path of least resistance and covers PCI 4.0 requirements natively.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Cloudflare Page Shield stands out as the best client-side protection tool for a company with a limited budget.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Convenient if you already run Cloudflare, but a major migration if you don't. Free tier exists but isn't compliance-sufficient.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
“Cloudflare Page Shield samples down to 1% of sessions, leaving 99% of user sessions without monitoring”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · warning
“it ranks less strongly for mid-market client-side protection than the leading options”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · warning
“Enterprise-grade but often bundled with broader suites, which could be overkill”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Page Shield, over the 80 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 50 | 3 | View → | |
| 42 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 2 | View → | |
| 34 | 5 | View → | |
| 32 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudflare Page Shield →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare Page Shield's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Business and Enterprise customers
- Price stated
- at no extra charge
- Free plan or trial
- closed beta
- Integrations
- 4373
- Certifications
- PCI DSS
- Customers named
- Ticketmaster, Newegg, British Airways
- 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 77 of the 80 answers that named Cloudflare Page Shield and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
247 of the 308 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Page Shield came from a third party's page. Thirty-eight were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |