Web application firewalls · RankedImperva Cloud WAF
Imperva Cloud WAF is a web application firewall from Imperva that protects web applications and APIs from threats · imperva.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 80 of 80 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cloudflare WAF is first at 94%.
Cloudflare WAF is first at 85%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cloudflare WAF is first at 60%.
Why models recommend it
“Top security efficacy scores (100% in recent SecureIQLab testing), strong API security, fully managed options | Companies wanting maximum protection with minimal in-house effort”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Cloudflare and Imperva often score highest in detection rate (70-90%+) with balanced false positives”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
“For enterprise-grade security with data-layer coverage: Imperva WAF offers comprehensive protection and hybrid deployment options.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Runner Up (Deep Security Focus): Imperva ... Drawback: It is generally more expensive and complex to manage than Cloudflare.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Imperva SecureSphere due to the documented critical bypass CVEs.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Avoid enterprise solutions (Imperva, Akamai, F5)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Effective for bots/anti-bot but cracked in some 2023 attacks; bypasses with double encoding or anti-bot evasion. High cost and tuning needs.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“only 11.97% Security Quality (True Positive Rate), missing 88.03% of actual threats and reducing its overall security effectiveness”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Imperva Cloud WAF, over the 145 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 137 | 87 | Compare → | |
| 107 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 95 | 9 | View → | |
| 66 | 0 | View → | |
| 52 | 1 | View → | |
| 41 | 1 | View → | |
| 40 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 0 | View → | |
| 33 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 29 | 1 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Imperva Cloud WAF →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
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- Customers named
- Tower, Smallpdf, Quálitas, Banco Popular, Discovery Inc., BSE, SDIS 62
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 124 of the 145 answers that named Imperva Cloud WAF and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
343 of the 414 domain citations in answers naming Imperva Cloud 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 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,714 | undated | WAF, DDoS | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 309 | undated | CDN, DLP | ||
| Report or ebook | 208 | 0 | 2018-04-01 | WAF, DDoS | |
| Case study | 50 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 10 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 8 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2018-04-01Threatradar subscription services report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page imperva.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.