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name: Prophaze
domain: prophaze.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.61
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# Prophaze

An AI-driven WAAP platform selling web application firewall, API security, bot mitigation, and DDoS protection to enterprise security teams.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Prophaze sells AI-driven WAAP capabilities — WAF, API protection, bot mitigation, DDoS defense — that a buyer evaluating Vercel's AI cloud platform for securing web applications would shortlist as an alternative specialized security layer.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> AI-driven WAF, API protection, bot mitigation, and Layer-7 DDoS defense to secure web and API traffic

> AI-driven WAAP platform covering WAF, API Security, Bot Mitigation, and DDoS Protection

> AI-driven bot defense stops scrapers, credential stuffing, and automated fraud in real time
