Akamai Bot Manager vs. Fastly's Web Application and API Security

Bot Manager relies on the simple premise that bots are not all created equal. Many bots play a legitimate role in your online business strategy. Others harm your business by reducing competitive advantage, getting between you and your customers, or committing fraud. Bot Manager provides a flexible framework to manage bot traffic based on the needs of your business—to better engage with your customers, improve your security posture, and control the traffic coming to your website every day.

Fastly’s AppSec solutions empower teams to mitigate threats and control bots while helping the business move faster, confidently. Protect Your Apps and APIs While Accelerating Growth with Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, API Security, and more. Our solutions are designed to help you stop cyber threats from derailing your biggest moments, accelerate innovation while minimizing new risk, and govern bots without increasing user friction.