⚡ Bot Mitigation in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, bot mitigation tools are detected on 1.6% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 84K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top bot mitigation tools in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Cloudflare Bot Management, which dominates the market with a substantial 57.3% share.
It is followed by Tencent EdgeOne with 21.8% and Akamai Bot Manager with 14.3%.

Cloudflare Bot Management 57.3%
Tencent EdgeOne 21.8%
Akamai Bot Manager 14.3%
CDNetworks Bot Shield 2.3%
Imperva WAF 1%
DDoS Guard 0.7%
ClickCease 0.6%
AntiBot Cloud 0.5%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.4%
Datadome 0.3%
BotD 0.2%
Human 0.1%
Anubis 0.1%
CHEQ 0.1%
Other 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Tencent EdgeOne ^(-8)
4. CDNetworks Bot Shield ^(-22)
8. AntiBot Cloud ^(-14)
9. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-2)
11. BotD ^(-17)
13. Anubis ^(-3)
15. Link11 ^(-3)
19. Seon ^(-4)

✨ Best Bot Mitigation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 19 bot mitigation tools used on sites from China, 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	57.3%
2	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	21.8%
3	Akamai Bot Manager Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An enterprise bot management and mitigation solution that detects, categorizes, and controls automated traffic across websites, APIs, and mobile applications at the network edge. $4,000+/month	14.3%
4	CDNetworks Bot Shield Singapore A cloud-based bot management solution designed to protect web assets from automated attacks, fraud, and resource abuse.	2.3%
5	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	1%
6	DDoS Guard Rostov-on-Don, Russia A Russian cybersecurity company specializing in DDoS protection services. $100+/month	0.7%
7	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	0.6%
8	AntiBot Cloud Armenia Free software and a cloud-based service that protects PHP websites from bad bots and scrapers. FreeOpen source$10+/month	0.5%
9	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. $$$	0.4%
10	Datadome New York, United States A SaaS-based bot protection and fraud prevention platform that secures websites, mobile apps, and APIs from automated threats. $3,690+/month	0.3%
11	BotD Chicago, Illinois, United States An open-source JavaScript library that detects bots and automation tools directly in the browser without requiring a server component. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Human New York, United States A cybersecurity solution designed to protect digital advertising, mitigate malicious bot attacks, and defend against account takeover and fake accounts. $$$	0.1%
13	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%
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	0.1%
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%
⏳	Fastly Bot Management San Francisco, California, United States A security solution from Fastly that detects and manages automated bot traffic at the edge of its global content delivery network. $$$	0.07%
17	Arkose Labs San Mateo, California, United States A cybersecurity platform for advanced bot prevention that combats card testing and other automated attacks. $$$	0.07%
18	Qrator Prague, Czech Republic A company of Russian origin that offers cloud-based Web Application Firewall and DDoS protection services. 23,000 RUB/month	0.07%
19	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	0.07%

👉 See Also

🌎 Bot Mitigation in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 84,081 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 33 bot mitigation tools across the web.
Of these, 19 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.