2 categories · Rankedcside
cside is a client-side protection product that works at the browser layer and uses device intelligence · cside.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.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is first at 19%.
Ranked first, contested: Cloudflare Page Shield has 16%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Feroot Security is first at 16%.
Why models recommend it
“cside's free forever tier and $99/mo self-serve start is the most affordable specialist in the category”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Choose cside when complete real-session visibility and PCI evidence are the priority.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · first choice
“cside stands out as the top client-side protection tool for a mid-market B2B company”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
“the top-rated client-side protection solution for a mid-market B2B company is cside”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“While it may have a cost, it's designed for businesses that need comprehensive protection and can provide value for money.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as cside, over the 83 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 3 | View → | |
| 34 | 6 | View → | |
| 33 | 4 | View → | |
| 29 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of cside →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on cside's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- eCommerce and SaaS companies
- Price stated
- Free plan: $0 /month; Business: from $99 /month; Enterprise: Custom
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free plan; 14-day free trial; No credit card required
- Certifications
- PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR
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 83 of the 83 answers that named cside and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
226 of the 342 domain citations in answers naming cside came from a third party's page. Forty-five 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 311 | undated | MFA, CDN | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 106 | undated | WAF | ||
| Comparison | 48 | undated | Client-side protection | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cside.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. 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 October 5, 2026.