🆚 Akamai Bot Manager vs. AWS WAF Captcha

📈 Akamai Bot Manager is much more popular than AWS WAF Captcha.
🌎 Akamai Bot Manager is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 AWS WAF Captcha is more popular in Sri Lanka and Malta.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akamai Bot Manager

AWS WAF Captcha

Type

Bot mitigation tool

Captcha service

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.

AWS WAF Captcha is 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.

It allows users to embed a JavaScript API in client-side applications, apply captcha or silent challenge actions based on rate-based, bot control, or custom inspection rules, and configure token immunity time.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/

Pricing

Free version ❌

$4,000+/month

Captcha$0.4/1K analyzed attempts

Challenge$0.4/1M responses

AWS WAFWeb ACL$5/month
Rule$1/month
Requests$0.6/1M requests

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai Bot Manager tool is 22 times more popular than AWS WAF Captcha.

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 AWS WAF Captcha is more popular in Sri Lanka and Malta.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Australia

China

Canada

Japan

Sweden

Spain

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Bot Mitigation category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Bot Mitigation category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Bot Mitigation category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Bot Mitigation category.
🥈 Second most popular in India in the Bot Mitigation category.

⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Singapore in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Captchas category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Bot Mitigation category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the Netherlands in the Captchas category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai Bot Manager is more popular than AWS WAF Captcha 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

#14

#28

#64

#66

Name

Rank

#265

#284

#445

#486

sportyb*t.com

#721