⚡ Bot Mitigation in Japan

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

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, bot mitigation tools are detected on 1.9% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 201K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Cloudflare Bot Management, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 64.2% share.
It is followed by F5 BIG-IP with 14.4% and Imperva WAF with 14.2%.

Cloudflare Bot Management 64.2%
F5 BIG-IP 14.4%
Imperva WAF 14.2%
Akamai Bot Manager 6%
Oracle WAF 0.5%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.3%
CHEQ 0.2%
Datadome 0.2%
CDNetworks Bot Shield 0.2%
Human 0.1%
DDoS Guard 0.1%
Tencent EdgeOne 0.08%
Fastly Bot Management 0.08%
Arkose Labs 0.05%
Link11 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. F5 BIG-IP ^(-1)
3. Imperva WAF ^(-1)
5. Oracle WAF ^(-14)
6. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-8)
7. CHEQ ^(-10)
8. Datadome ^(-3)
9. CDNetworks Bot Shield ^(-18)
14. Arkose Labs ^(-6)
15. Link11 ^(-8)
16. BotD ^(-12)

✨ Best Bot Mitigation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 18 bot mitigation tools used on sites from Japan, 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	64.2%
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	14.4%
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	14.2%
4	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	6%
5	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	0.5%
6	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. $$$	0.3%
7	CHEQ Tel Aviv, Israel A click fraud protection software solution that uses machine learning to block fraudulent clicks and protect ad campaigns from fraud. $99+/month	0.2%
8	Datadome New York, United States A SaaS-based bot protection and fraud prevention platform that secures websites, mobile apps, and APIs from automated threats. $3,690+/month	0.2%
9	CDNetworks Bot Shield Singapore A cloud-based bot management solution designed to protect web assets from automated attacks, fraud, and resource abuse.	0.2%
10	Human New York, United States A cybersecurity solution designed to protect digital advertising, mitigate malicious bot attacks, and defend against account takeover and fake accounts. $$$	0.1%
11	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	0.1%
12	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	0.08%
13	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. $$$	0.08%
14	Arkose Labs San Mateo, California, United States A cybersecurity platform for advanced bot prevention that combats card testing and other automated attacks. $$$	0.05%
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	0.03%
16	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	0.03%
17	Qrator Prague, Czech Republic A company of Russian origin that offers cloud-based Web Application Firewall and DDoS protection services. 23,000 RUB/month	0.03%
18	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	0.03%

👉 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 201,262 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 34 bot mitigation tools across the web.
Of these, 18 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 28, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.