⚡ Bot Mitigation

Bot mitigation software is designed to identify and control automated traffic on websites and online services by distinguishing malicious bots from legitimate users.

These systems typically use behavioral analysis, device and fingerprinting techniques, rate limiting, challenge-response mechanisms, and real-time monitoring to prevent activities such as scraping, credential abuse, spam, and denial-of-service attacks.

According to our research, bot mitigation technologies are used on 5.4% of all websites.
99.3% of these sites use only one bot mitigation technology, 0.7% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading bot mitigation technologies in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Cloudflare Bot Management, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 79.2% share.
It is followed by Akamai Bot Manager with 6.5% and Imperva WAF with 4.9%.

Cloudflare Bot Management 79.2%
Akamai Bot Manager 6.5%
Imperva WAF 4.9%
DDoS Guard 3.6%
ClickCease 1.7%
Datadome 0.8%
Human 0.7%
Qrator 0.7%
Tencent EdgeOne 0.3%
Radware Bot Manager 0.3%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.3%
Servicepipe 0.2%
Oracle WAF 0.2%
CHEQ 0.2%
Other 0.4%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of technologies that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

DDoS Guard is #1 in Russia ^(-3)
Imperva WAF is #2 in the United Kingdom ^(-1)
Tencent EdgeOne is #2 in China ^(-7)
ClickCease is #3 in Australia ^(-2)
Human is #5 in the United States ^(-2)

✨ Best Bot Mitigation Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 bot mitigation technologies we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Cloudflare Bot Management San Francisco, California, United States A security service that detects and mitigates automated bot traffic while allowing legitimate bots such as search engine crawlers. Free$25+/month	79.2%
2	Akamai Bot Manager Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Effectively detects bot traffic and mitigates malicious bots. $4,000+/month	6.5%
3	Imperva WAF San Mateo, California, United States Imperva Cloud WAF protects websites from automated vulnerability scans, Layer 7 DDoS attacks, and malicious bots. $7,000+/year	4.9%
4	DDoS Guard Rostov-on-Don, Russia A Russian cybersecurity company specializing in DDoS protection services. $100+/month	3.6%
5	ClickCease Tel Aviv, Israel An ad fraud prevention platform that protects paid advertising campaigns by detecting and blocking invalid clicks, impressions, and bot traffic across major networks such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft Ads. $99+/month	1.7%
6	Datadome New York, United States A SaaS-based bot protection and fraud prevention platform that secures websites, mobile apps, and APIs from automated threats. $3,690+/month	0.8%
7	Human New York, United States A cybersecurity solution designed to protect digital advertising, mitigate malicious bot attacks, and defend against account takeover and fake accounts. $$$	0.7%
8	Qrator Prague, Czech Republic A company of Russian origin that offers cloud-based Web Application Firewall and DDoS protection services. 23,000 RUB/month	0.7%
9	Tencent EdgeOne Shenzhen, China An integrated edge security and acceleration platform developed by Tencent Cloud that combines global CDN delivery, web application protection, bot and DDoS mitigation, and edge computing. Free$4.2+/month	0.3%
10	Radware Bot Manager Tel Aviv, Israel A cloud-based bot management platform designed to protect web applications, mobile apps, and APIs from automated threats such as account takeover, DDoS attacks, and web scraping. $1,130+/month	0.3%
11	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.3%
12	Servicepipe Moscow, Russia A Russian cybersecurity company that offers protection services for IT infrastructure and web resources, including DDoS mitigation, bot defense, and traffic filtering for L3 to L7 threats. $$$	0.2%
13	Oracle WAF Austin, Texas, United States A cloud-based, PCI-compliant, global security service that protects applications from malicious and unwanted internet traffic. $5+/month	0.2%
14	CHEQ Tel Aviv, Israel A click fraud protection software solution that uses machine learning to block fraudulent clicks and protect ad campaigns from fraud. $99+/month	0.2%
15	Link11 Frankfurt, Germany Offers a cloud-based security platform that includes web application firewall, distributed denial-of-service protection, bot management, and API security. €613+/month	0.1%
16	Arkose Labs San Mateo, California, United States A cybersecurity platform for advanced bot prevention that combats card testing and other automated attacks. $$$	0.1%
17	Myra Munich, Germany A German security-as-a-service platform offering DDoS mitigation, a hyperscale web application firewall, deep bot management, CDN, secure DNS, and real-time traffic filtering. €290+/month	0.1%
18	AntiBot Cloud Armenia Free software and a cloud-based service that protects PHP websites from bad bots and scrapers. FreeOpen source$10+/month	0.1%
19	Anubis Ottawa, Ontario, Canada An open-source anti-bot solution designed to use a proof-of-work challenge to website visitors before granting access. FreeOpen source$50+/month	0.1%
20	ClickGuard Wilmington, Delaware, United States A click fraud prevention tool that can protect your PPC campaign from bot traffic attacks. $74+/month	0.1%
-	Yandex Smart Web Security Moscow, Russia A cloud-based security service from Yandex Cloud that protects web applications and APIs at the OSI model's application layer (L7) against DDoS attacks, malicious bots, and other web-based threats. $222.75+/month	0.1%
22	Seon Austin, Texas, United States A risk mitigation platform that enables fraud detection and bot mitigation through machine learning, APIs and custom rules. $699+/month	0.09%
23	AppTrana WAF Vadodara, Gujarat, India An AI-powered, fully managed web application firewall with zero-day vulnerability protection. $99+/app/month	0.07%
24	BitNinja Debrecen, Hungary A server security suite with a centralized dashboard containing an AI-powered Linux malware scanner, IP reputation, WAF, and spam detection. Free$5+/month	0.06%
25	Imunify360 Estero, Florida, United States A comprehensive security suite for Linux web servers that includes antivirus, firewall, WAF, and more. $12+/month	0.05%

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 3,324,765 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 29, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.