# F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defence: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/f5-distributed-cloud-bot-defence

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Bot management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/bot-management/index.md) | 0% | 39 | 0% | 2 |

## 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defence, from 5 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- securityboulevard.com: 5
- cloudflare.com: 4
- forrester.com: 4
- g2.com: 4
- techtimes.com: 3
- akamai.com: 2
- cequence.ai: 2
- fastly.com: 2
- hcaptcha.com: 2
- imperva.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-2024: 5
- https://forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-bot-management-software-q3-2024/RES181013: 3
- https://g2.com/categories/bot-platforms: 3
- https://securityboulevard.com/2024/10/what-is-bot-management: 3
- https://akamai.com/products/bot-manager: 2
- https://akamai.com/site/en/documents/brief/2021/bot-manager-product-brief.pdf: 2
- https://cequence.ai/learn/best-bot-management-solutions-for-large-enterprises: 2
- https://cloudflare.com/products/bot-mitigation: 2

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.
