# HUMAN Security alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 463 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where HUMAN Security holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/human-security/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Cloudflare Bot Management: 92
- cside: 29
- DataDome: 17
- Reflectiz: 15
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: 14
- Indusface AppTrana: 9

## Bot management

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name HUMAN Security.

- Cloudflare Bot Management: first choice in 42 of those 84
- Indusface AppTrana: first choice in 7 of those 84
- DataDome: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Barracuda Bot Protection: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Cloudflare Bot Manager: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Cloudflare Super Bot Fight Mode: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Cloudflare Turnstile: first choice in 2 of those 84
- AWS WAF + Bot Control: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 75 of 84 answers did not name HUMAN Security (HUMAN Security is #4 of 9 at 2%).

- Cloudflare Bot Management: first choice in 29 of those 75
- DataDome: first choice in 8 of those 75
- Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode / Super Bot Fight Mode: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Cloudflare Bot Manager: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Akamai Bot Manager: first choice in 1 of those 75
- AppTrana Bot Management: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Barracuda Bot Protection: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Fastly Bot Management: first choice in 1 of those 75

**Enterprise**: 63 of 84 answers did not name HUMAN Security (HUMAN Security is #4 of 8 at 4%).

- Cloudflare Bot Management: first choice in 21 of those 63
- Akamai Bot Manager: first choice in 7 of those 63
- DataDome: first choice in 4 of those 63
- Imperva Advanced Bot Protection: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Indusface AppTrana: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Arkose Bot Manager: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Cequence Bot Management: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Cloudflare Bot Management for Enterprise: first choice in 1 of those 63

## Client-side protection

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name HUMAN Security (HUMAN Security is #9 of 9 at 0%).

- cside: first choice in 12 of those 83
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: first choice in 11 of those 83
- c/side: first choice in 5 of those 83
- Reflectiz: first choice in 4 of those 83
- Bitdefender GravityZone Small Business Security: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Sentry: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Source Defense: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Cloudflare Application Security and Performance with Page Shield: first choice in 2 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name HUMAN Security (HUMAN Security is #8 of 8 at 0%).

- cside: first choice in 8 of those 80
- Cloudflare Client-Side Security: first choice in 5 of those 80
- Reflectiz: first choice in 5 of those 80
- c/side: first choice in 4 of those 80
- Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Jscrambler Webpage Integrity: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Feroot PaymentGuard: first choice in 2 of those 80

**Enterprise**: 78 of 84 answers did not name HUMAN Security (HUMAN Security is #10 of 10 at 2%).

- cside: first choice in 9 of those 78
- Reflectiz: first choice in 6 of those 78
- CrowdStrike Falcon: first choice in 5 of those 78
- Imperva Client-Side Protection: first choice in 5 of those 78
- Feroot PaymentGuard: first choice in 4 of those 78
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: first choice in 4 of those 78
- Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance: first choice in 3 of those 78
- Cloudflare Page Shield: first choice in 3 of those 78

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.