DDoS protection · Named, not rankedProject Shield
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Project Shield has 1.
Why models recommend it
“Project Shield (Best for News/Small Organizations) - Price: FREE”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Project Shield, over the 2 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Project Shield's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- News and Independent Journalists; Human Rights Organizations; Elections Information and Monitoring; Political Organizations; Rights Organizations for Marginalized Groups; Non-Profit Organizations for Arts; Non-Profit Organizations for Sciences; Government Entities (Under Exigent Circumstances)
- Price stated
- free service
- Free plan or trial
- free unlimited protection
- Customers named
- Qurium Media Foundation, The Local, Luminum Solutions, Pravda, Acrofan, BehindMLM, Facilisimo, krebsonsecurity.com
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 2 of the 2 answers that named Project Shield and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ten of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Project Shield came from a third party's page. One was 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |