DDoS protection · RankedFastly DDoS Protection
Fastly DDoS Protection is a service from Fastly that mitigates distributed denial-of-service attacks at the network edge and is associated with Fastly's CDN · fastly.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Start with established players like Cloudflare (cost-effective for mid-size), Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, or AWS Shield.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Often a better fit for technically mature teams than organizations seeking the simplest turnkey service.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Strong enterprise features, deep security capabilities, excellent for complex web app setups.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Best for Real-Time & High Performance: Fastly (Next-Gen WAF & DDoS)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Fastly DDoS Protection has narrower coverage: infrastructure, DNS, and non-HTTP services need their own protection.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · warning
“All US-based entities subject to the CLOUD Act, which may raise data sovereignty/privacy concerns for EU customers.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Fastly DDoS Protection, over the 38 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 26 | View → | |
| 36 | 4 | View → | |
| 35 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Fastly DDoS Protection →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Fastly DDoS Protection's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- platform engineers, security teams, or anyone else
- Price stated
- Zero Attack Fees
- Starting price
- 0
- Customers named
- Yelp
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 28 of the 38 answers that named Fastly DDoS Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-four of the ninety-four domain citations in answers naming Fastly DDoS Protection 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 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 927 | 1 | 2026-07-31 | WAF, Object storage | |
| Blog | 649 | 30 | 2026-09-28 | CDN, WAF | |
| Case study | 57 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 14 | 0 | 2025-12-15 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 13 | 2 | 2026-09-16 | Object storage | |
| News or press | 9 | 7 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2025-02-14 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | CDN | |
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-16 |
Most recent
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- 2026-09-28Press releases news or press
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- 2026-09-23Control ai bot scraping with fastly bot management blog
- 2026-09-23Datasheet blog
- 2026-09-22Building metered streams with mpp and fastly compute blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page fastly.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (48); 9 name the category the models place it in. 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 September 29, 2026.