🆚 Akamai Bot Manager vs. Fastly Bot Management
Akamai Bot ManagerType
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.
Fastly Bot Management is a security solution from 
Fastly that detects and manages automated bot traffic at the edge of its global content delivery network.
It applies real-time behavioral analysis, machine learning-based classification, device and request fingerprinting, and configurable mitigation rules to differentiate between human users, beneficial bots such as search engines, and malicious automation.
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Bot Mitigation category.
Popularity by domain category
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- 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 3,406,701 websites. However, data for Fastly Bot Management is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.