Akamai · 3 categories · RankedAkamai Bot Manager
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot management | Network and edge | 2% | 7 of 83 | 27% | 37 | criticized challenger | |
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 40 of 120 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% | |
| Web application firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 32 of 82 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Akamai Bot Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“DataDome and Akamai Bot Manager are the top choices” Mistral Small · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Leverages massive edge network for real-time bot detection via ML, threat intelligence, and client-side challenges. Good for high-traffic sites.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · comparative prompt · alternative
“Fastly Bot Management and Akamai Bot Manager are examples of solutions that offer robust detection and mitigation capabilities.” Llama 4 Maverick · Bot management · scale prompt · alternative
“Choose Akamai Bot Manager if you're already in the Akamai ecosystem or need a very mature enterprise bot-control stack” GPT-5.4 mini · Bot management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Enterprise-focused tools (Akamai, Imperva) often have high costs for advanced features, unsuitable for SMBs.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative
“such as DataDome, HUMAN, Kasada, Akamai, or F5), watch out for these contract and technical warning signs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Has experienced public false positive incidents; complex configuration can cause availability risks” Kimi K2 · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative
“you do not need to pay for high-end enterprise solutions like DataDome, Akamai, or HUMAN Security” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akamai Bot Manager, over the 144 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Bot Manager was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 132 of the 144 answers that named Akamai Bot Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
470 of the 513 domain citations in answers naming Akamai Bot Manager came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Akamai Bot Manager stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“akamai bot manager”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Akamai's site (akamai.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 144 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 132 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Akamai Bot Manager
Follow Akamai Bot Manager
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Akamai is the company behind Akamai Bot Manager.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Security Failover Feature Compatibility
- For
- properties that implement a failover under the Cloud Security Failover product
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Akamai Bot Manager's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: techdocs.akamai.com/property-mgr/reference/ga-failover-bot-manager-feature-compatibility, techdocs.akamai.com/property-mgr/reference/latest-failover-bot-manager-feature-compatibility, techdocs.akamai.com/property-mgr/reference/deprecated-failover-bot-manager-feature-compatibility. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Akamai Bot Manager's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Akamai Bot Manager, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akamai Bot Manager by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Akamai Bot Manager is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Akamai Bot Manager, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.