⚡ Bot Mitigation in France

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

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our research, bot mitigation tools are detected on 4.3% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 134K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Cloudflare Bot Management, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 71.5% share.
It is followed by F5 BIG-IP with 11.9% and Akamai Bot Manager with 5.1%.

Cloudflare Bot Management 71.5%
F5 BIG-IP 11.9%
Akamai Bot Manager 5.1%
Imperva WAF 4.4%
Datadome 2.4%
FortiWeb 2%
Anubis 1.1%
ClickCease 1.1%
Radware Bot Manager 0.6%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.2%
Human 0.2%
AntiBot Cloud 0.1%
Arkose Labs 0.1%
CHEQ 0.09%
DDoS Guard 0.09%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. F5 BIG-IP ^(-1)
5. Datadome ^(-7)
7. Anubis ^(-6)
9. Radware Bot Manager ^(-2)
10. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-5)
12. AntiBot Cloud ^(-12)
13. Arkose Labs ^(-8)
14. CHEQ ^(-3)
17. Myra ^(-1)
18. CDNetworks Bot Shield ^(-10)

✨ Best Bot Mitigation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 bot mitigation tools used on sites from France, 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	71.5%
2	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	11.9%
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	5.1%
4	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	4.4%
5	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	2.4%
6	FortiWeb Sunnyvale, California, United States A web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from known and unknown exploits and zero-day threats. $3,400+	2%
7	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	1.1%
8	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	1.1%
9	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	0.6%
10	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS 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. $$$	0.2%
11	Human New York, United States A cybersecurity solution designed to protect digital advertising, mitigate malicious bot attacks, and defend against account takeover and fake accounts. $$$	0.2%
12	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%
13	Arkose Labs San Mateo, California, United States A cybersecurity platform for advanced bot prevention that combats card testing and other automated attacks. $$$	0.1%
14	CHEQ Tel Aviv, Israel A click fraud protection software solution that uses machine learning to block fraudulent clicks and protect ad campaigns from fraud. $99+/month	0.09%
15	DDoS Guard Rostov-on-Don, Russia A Russian bot and DDoS mitigation service that filters traffic through a geo-distributed scrubbing network of 4 Tbps capacity. $100+/month	0.09%
16	Fastly Bot Management San Francisco, California, United States A security solution from Fastly that detects and manages automated bot traffic at the edge of its global content delivery network. $$$	0.05%
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	0.05%
18	CDNetworks Bot Shield Singapore A cloud-based bot management solution designed to protect web assets from automated attacks, fraud, and resource abuse.	0.03%
19	ClickGuard Wilmington, Delaware, United States A click fraud prevention tool that can protect your PPC campaign from bot traffic attacks. $74+/month	0.02%
20	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	0.02%
21	Qrator Prague, Czechia A company of Russian origin that offers cloud-based Web Application Firewall and DDoS protection services. 23,000 RUB/month	0.02%
22	AppTrana WAF Vadodara, Gujarat, India An AI-powered, fully managed web application firewall with zero-day vulnerability protection. $99+/app/month	0.02%
23	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	0.02%
24	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	0.02%
25	Imunify360 Estero, Florida, United States A comprehensive security suite for Linux web servers that includes antivirus, firewall, WAF, and more. $12+/month	0.02%

👉 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 134,283 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 35 bot mitigation tools across the web.
Of these, 25 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.