3 categories · RankedFastly Next-Gen WAF
Fastly Next-Gen WAF is a web application firewall from Fastly that provides real-time threat protection for web applications and APIs · fastly.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Choose Fastly Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences). Its agent/module-based architecture integrates directly into app code pipelines”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Excellent for DevOps-centric orgs with low false positives, but pricing is quote-based and typically higher.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Best for SaaS Platforms & Low False-Positives: Fastly Next-Gen WAF (formerly Signal Sciences)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Your apps span different environments or you want WAF placement options beyond a single cloud.”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“revealed a pervasive misconfiguration bug affecting these major WAF providers”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Fastly (some chunking/origin issues per research)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Fastly Next-Gen WAF, over the 81 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 52 | View → | |
| 68 | 0 | View → | |
| 66 | 7 | View → | |
| 53 | 12 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Fastly Next-Gen WAF →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
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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.
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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 61 of the 81 answers that named Fastly Next-Gen WAF and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
177 of the 203 domain citations in answers naming Fastly Next-Gen WAF 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 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 |
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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. 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.