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ClickCease

156Judge labels

44First choices

40Negative labels

14 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

54% in Click fraud protection for small business buyers

Rank 1 of 52 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader

10 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 57 labels there were negative.

What the models named instead of ClickCease →

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business1 of 45

criticized challenger

In click fraud protection · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named ClickCease for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Click fraud protection	Marketing	36%	1 of 52	12%	57	endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ClickCease yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated ClickCease across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	3	0	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	2	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	1	0	2	6
Mistral Small	3	2	0	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	1	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Kimi K2	3	0	2	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	4	0	0	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	2	0	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	3	0	1	0	4

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct33 labels19

Paraphrase24 labels18

Comparative33 labels21not counted in share

Budget-constrained29 labels6

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative28 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative156 labels in all, every segment counted; 44 of the 66 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you are an SMB spending under $20k/month on Google and Meta and want a quick, affordable, set-and-forget tool: Go with ClickCease or Fraud Blocker.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Click fraud protection · comparative prompt · first choice

“For most advertisers, ClickCease, Lunio, and ClickPatrol are top contenders due to their real-time protection, multi-platform support, and ease of integration.” Mistral Small · Click fraud protection · comparative prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with ClickCease due to its low entry price ($12/month), comprehensive feature set, and no-contract policy” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Click fraud protection · budget prompt · first choice

“Best all-around for SMBs and agencies: ClickCease covers Google, Meta, and Microsoft Ads with fast setup and transparent pricing.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Click fraud protection · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Why we do NOT recommend basic tools like ClickCease for Mid-Market B2B” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Click fraud protection · direct prompt · hard negative

“High ratings (4.6-4.7/5), but occasional complaints on Trustpilot/Capterra about access errors, limited rule customization, analytics depth” Grok 4.1 Fast · Click fraud protection · negative prompt · soft negative

“You should approach legacy, IP-blocking-heavy tools (such as standard tiers of ClickCease, ClickGuard, or Clixtell) with caution” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Click fraud protection · negative prompt · soft negative

“Annual contract pressure at checkout is a common complaint, and visit-based pricing penalizes traffic growth.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Click fraud protection · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ClickCease, over the 156 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ClickCease was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Lunio85 of 15624Compare →

ClickGUARD81 of 1565Compare →

Fraud Blocker80 of 1566Compare →

Cheq62 of 15617Compare →

TrafficGuard61 of 1566Compare →

ClickPatrol46 of 1566Compare →

Clixtell38 of 1564Compare →

Anura27 of 1562Not among the top eight

DataDome22 of 1563Not among the top eight

ClickGuardian21 of 1563Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named ClickCease. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 152 of the 156 answers that named ClickCease and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

lunio.ai107

guideflow.com106

clickcease.comYour site89

clickpatrol.com80

trafficguard.ai68

thecmo.com56

improvado.io54

sourceforge.net53

g2.com52

spotsaas.com49

625 of the 714 domain citations in answers naming ClickCease came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-click-fraud-software105

lunio.ai/blog/the-9-best-click-fraud-detection-tools-ranked85

thecmo.com/tools/best-click-fraud-software56

trafficguard.ai/blog/best-click-fraud-protection-software-protect-your-ppc-campaigns55

clickpatrol.com/best-click-fraud-protection-software54

improvado.io/blog/best-ad-fraud-detection-software53

clickcease.com/blog/clickcease-vs-competitors-202642

spotsaas.com/list/click-fraud-software/for-small-business37

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where ClickCease stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “click fraud protection tool”

Position for “best click fraud protection tool”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,300 a month (“clickcease”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 50 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,517 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 836 · 30 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 28,158
Paid Google search: 9 searches its ads show for, about 11,742 clicks and $394,547 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

31 ads · 31 text · 12 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2022, as CHEQ AI TECHNOLOGIES (2018) LTD, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 23 in the year, 8 before. 2 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

36%

rank 1 of 52 in click fraud protection

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 156 answers
Its own site cited: in 152 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on clickcease.com

336

subdomains included

Content

311

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

2 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	248	24	2026-09-28	Click fraud protection, SEO
Glossary or explainer	28	0	2026-06-17	SEO
Report or ebook	11	0	2023-05-16
Comparison	10	0	2026-06-14	SEO
Case study	9	0	2020-02-19
Conference or event	2	0	2018-10-30
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2021-06-07
Podcast or video	1	0	2017-07-14
News or press	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-28Clickcease fraud trends 2026 blog
2026-09-28Click fraud protection for agencies blog
2026-09-24Clickcease billing blog
2026-09-15Does click fraud protection block customers blog
2026-08-29I woke up to hundreds of clicks and no calls could this be fraud blog
2026-08-29I spent a lot on clicks and got zero leads is that fraud blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page clickcease.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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as ClickCease

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ClickCease; a claim can dispute any of them.

ClickCease (by CHEQ) 2ClickCease Starter 1

Follow ClickCease

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when ClickCease's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as ClickCease, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ClickCease by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ClickCease is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name ClickCease, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where ClickCease is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend ClickCease first in Click fraud protection this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/click-fraud-protection/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/clickcease--click-fraud-protection-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Click fraud protection, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Click fraud protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/click-fraud-protection/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/clickcease--click-fraud-protection-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Click fraud protection, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Click fraud protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/click-fraud-protection/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/clickcease--click-fraud-protection-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Click fraud protection, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Click fraud protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.