🆚 Akamai Bot Manager vs. Anubis

Type

Bot mitigation tool
Bot mitigation tool

About

Akamai Bot Manager is an enterprise bot management and mitigation solution that detects, categorizes, and controls automated traffic across websites, APIs, and mobile applications at the network edge.

It maintains a directory of over 1,300 known bot signatures across 15 categories, uses AI and machine learning, assigns a Bot Score to every request, and enables policy-based responses such as blocking, rate limiting, serving alternate content, or challenging suspicious traffic.

Anubis is an open-source anti-bot solution designed to use a proof-of-work challenge to website visitors before granting access.

It aims to stop AI crawlers and requires clients to have JavaScript enabled and use a modern browser able to calculate SHA-256 checksums.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
$4,000+/month
Free version ✔️Open source
BotStopper
(unbranded version)
$50+/month

Categories

Bot Mitigation › Rank #2
Bot Mitigation › Rank #16

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai Bot Manager tool is 49 times more popular than Anubis.
Total websites

Market share

Bot Mitigation

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Akamai Bot Manager is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Anubis is more popular in Latvia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
China
Australia
Canada
Japan
Sweden
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai Bot Manager is more popular than Anubis in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Finance/Banking
Travel
Fashion/Beauty
Motor Vehicles
Entertainment
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#11,502
#12,235
#21,448
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See also

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