Akamai Bot Manager vs Link11 comparison

Akamai and Link11 are both solutions in the Bot Management category. Akamai is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while Link11 is ranked #10. Akamai holds a 14.7% mindshare in BM, compared to Link11’s 7.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Link11 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 18, 2026

Akamai Bot Manager and Link11 compete in the bot management space. Link11 appears to have the upper hand due to its ease of deployment and value perception, despite Akamai's strength in feature richness.

Features: Akamai Bot Manager provides comprehensive threat intelligence, granular policy controls, and advanced bot detection. Its API security is robust for transactional endpoints, and it offers fraud management support. Link11 excels with real-time traffic analysis, automatic threat response, and strong DDoS protection that adapts quickly to emerging threats.

Room for Improvement: Akamai Bot Manager could improve its integration with other security products and streamline its setup process. Its interface could benefit from clearer differentiation between product features. Link11 could enhance its threat intelligence capabilities and offer more granular controls. Increasing compatibility with a wider range of systems would also be advantageous.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Link11 is praised for its straightforward deployment and efficient customer service, offering quick integration and responsive support. Akamai Bot Manager, while more complex to set up, provides comprehensive assistance and a wide range of customizable options, requiring a more involved implementation process.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai Bot Manager involves a higher setup cost, justified by its comprehensive feature set and superior ROI. Link11 offers moderate pricing, delivering rapid ROI due to cost-effective threat mitigation and lower initial investment, appealing to cost-sensitive buyers seeking quick results.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Bot Manager

Ranking in Bot Management

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Link11

Ranking in Bot Management

10th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

CDN (15th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (36th), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (23rd), API Security (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Bot Management category, the mindshare of Akamai Bot Manager is 14.7%, up from 14.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Link11 is 7.4%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Bot Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Akamai Bot Manager	14.7%
Link11	7.4%
Other	77.9%

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Denis Burnaev

SecOps Engineer at El Al

Uses real-time dashboards to manage bot traffic and has provided a reliable first layer of defense

Because we are an airline, we have various attacks on our website and application, and we really have to involve our experience and try to find attacks by ourselves. These days attacks are very sophisticated and they are trying to manipulate in the same way as humans, so the anomaly feature is not really helpful. Bots are very clever these days and they move through the website the way humans do. We are not really using it because again, the attacks are sophisticated. We need something that involves different AI models that can try to find similarity in all the data that we are getting from Akamai Bot Manager to understand where exactly we can find similarities between the ways bots are reacting on the website. The most valued feature these days is getting research on all the data as fast as possible and trying to find similarities to understand which bots are trying to manipulate or abuse my website. We are going toward AI solutions because it is the fastest, but it should be a very sophisticated model. Bots these days move the way humans do, so it's really hard to understand which of them is a bot and which is human. Bots can go through the challenges you are putting on the website, and it seems nothing can stop them.

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Shivendra S.

Senior Director of Engineering - Information Security at Apna

Offers flexibility with a kill switch for bypassing Reblaze if needed and provides a reliable Layer 7 defense against attacks

There is still some room for improvement when it comes to bot management from Reblaze because they are relatively new compared to other vendors in the town. AWS WAF, the Web Application Firewall from AWS, has a vast database of bad IP addresses due to its long-standing presence in this business. Reblaze, being a new entrant, is still building its database of bad IP addresses and malicious systems. So, Reblaze needs to work on that aspect. But other than that, I don't think scaling Reblaze has been an issue. There were some initial glitches, but they were all sorted out. So currently, I would say that the bot management and the database are areas they should focus on for further improvement.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Based on the telemetry, Akamai Bot Manager gives a rough estimate of all the hits and requests we get, which are suspected bots."

"Akamai Bot Manager is very easy to scale. Adding new domains or subdomains is a super easy process."

"In terms of the security provided, the benefits from the use of the product are immediately visible."

"Akamai Bot Manager has more advanced rules that allow it to detect and block bot scrapers."

"Akamai Bot Manager is helping us understand how many bots are accessing our websites or applications, and we can manage the dashboard to differentiate on a quick view and see how much good bots get access compared to bad bots trying to reach our website."

"The best feature is the BNP. That is what Manager Premium does, protection of transactional endpoints."

"The most valuable features of Akamai Bot Manager are the seamless integration and accuracy with which it detects the bots that can make attacks."

"Akamai Bot Manager has two valuable features: BMS (Bot Manager Standard) and BMP (Bot Manager Premier)."

"Reblaze knows how to manage security. For me as, someone who knows little about security, it's good that I have a firm that optimizes everything according to their standards. It's their responsibility and they are fully hands-on."

"I very much like the elastic search and reports, allowing us to have a 360-degree view of the customer's activities and enabling us to track down any suspicious bots."

"The real-time monitoring and reporting are very good. There are information updates in their portal every two minutes. They also have the ability to spill it into Sumo Logic, for example. It's very easy to use."

"The feature I find most valuable is the user-friendly dashboard. It is easy to understand how everything works and it allows you to make decisions quickly and efficiently."

"The main feature is using the rules and being able to see the traffic. It helps us find malicious traffic."

"The best thing about Reblaze, for us, is that it has been a game changer because previously, we were using Google's Web Application Firewall, but it wasn't up to the mark."

"The most valuable features were the real-time monitoring and the management. With this kind of product, you need a very good management system to allow you to see false positives in real-time; to see what's happening in real-time... The clarity stood out. It was very visible and very easy to navigate; very easy to find the data we were looking for."

"We like the website protection. It's really good. The dashboard is really simple to use."

Cons

"Akamai Bot Manager Premier has some additional functionalities, particularly for web telemetry, but they don't have it for app telemetry."

"In my opinion, the UI of Akamai Bot Manager is a bit unconventional and not as intuitive as one might expect."

"I feel that customer support has certain concerns where improvements are required."

"The anomaly feature is not really helpful. Bots are very clever these days and they move through the website the way humans do."

"There is a clear need for improvement. Over the past year or so, we've observed an increase in the sophistication of attacks, with some occurring at the start of this year or even extending back one and a half years. Despite having ample resources, particularly with the advent of advanced AI, these entities can now execute basic bot attacks."

"There are other rules that are user-friendly, however, many of the things have a learning curve. This is not something you enter into lightly."

"Akamai Bot Manager can improve by having better SDK integration. SDK would be required to integrate with any mobile applications and if they are able to make that more seamless, it will help."

"I would say there is definitely a need of improvement because I think some start of this year or even, like one and a half years. But now have enough resources at their end especially with the, advanced AI and everything. So they have enough resources to launch basic bot attacks. And whenever we do some type of fine tuning, they are always somehow able to evade it or just fly under the threshold. And from our end, we also have to maintain those threshold so that we still do not start blocking the real general customer. So every time when they try to do something else, we have to see their traffic patterns and then find you in our solution.When these bot attacks happen, what we have to do is we have to check their, traffic patterns, their IT sees and then do the proper analysis. And based on that, the fine tuning is done. So I would say, like, based on these bot traffic, if there is a automatic fine tuning. With the help of machine learning at all, then that would be much more easier of beneficial. So this needs improvement."

More Akamai Bot Manager cons

"The next release should have next-generation automation."

"It would be beneficial if it had a workflow or a feature that could fine-tune settings based on high-level requirements."

"They have an interface that you have to adjust to. That is a bit of a downfall because I expect an interface to be very intuitive for someone who knows little about security. But if you know about security, the interface is wonderful."

"The WAF features are not as granular as we would expect from a WAF system. There should be more granularity and in-depth rules, out-of-the-box."

"There is room for improvement in helping us understanding session management... We want Reblaze to catch and identify everything. We want to see the various devices doing one activity and to see, in a timeline, what's happened. We would like to see a more human-readable display to understand what's happening in the web app."

"I would like to have seen more automated reports. Maybe it has been improved in the last year and I'm just not aware of it. But from a managerial point of view, you want a summary report, a weekly report: How many attacks were blocked? How much bandwidth was saved due to the caching mechanism? What were the top-ten attacks that were tested on the network, etc? I could most likely have found all that data if I logged in to the system and ran different reports. It would be very helpful to get a management report on a weekly basis."

"Up to now the only cons I could find is sometimes getting change management back on track, because it's a company that evolves, and sometimes I don't have the same needs that they have. But besides that, up until now, I am really pleased with their service and I've also recommended them to some of my clients."

"We have multiple products behind different instances of Reblaze. We have one instance for staging and then we have a production instance for multiple products. One of the things that we have requested is a unified view panel, so that we can see each of the instances in a unified view. That way, we won't have to go bouncing from instance to instance."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You buy a license of the product based on a certain volume, but if you hit the volume and go above it, then you are charged additional for each GB you use. I think you need to pay 20,000 per month."

"We have to pay a bundled cost."

"Akamai Bot Manager is a very expensive solution."

"Akamai Bot Manager requires a separate license that sits on top of Kona or Akamai Web Application Protector."

"The price of Akamai Bot Manager could improve."

"There is still some room for improvement when it comes to bot management from Reblaze because they are relatively new compared to other vendors in the town."

"We found the cost to be a bit on the higher side, starting at approximately three to four thousand dollars for a small configuration."

"I believe that for the six instances we have right now, it's costing us $16,000 per month."

"On a monthly basis we pay $750."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

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Overview

Akamai Bot Manager is a comprehensive Bot Management Software solution provided by Akamai Technologies. It is designed to protect websites, applications, and APIs from automated bot attacks. Akamai is a leading content delivery network (CDN) and cloud service provider, offering a range of cybersecurity solutions, including Bot Manager.

Akamai Bot Manager utilizes advanced algorithms, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to identify and mitigate malicious bot traffic in real-time. It helps organizations distinguish between legitimate users and bots, allowing them to effectively protect their online assets from various bot-based attacks, such as account takeover, credential stuffing, content scraping, and denial-of-service attacks.

Akamai Bot Manager Features:

Bot Detection: Akamai Bot Manager employs sophisticated techniques to detect and identify bots, including signature-based detection, statistical analysis, anomaly detection, and reputation-based scoring.
Bot Mitigation: Once identified, Akamai Bot Manager can take proactive measures to mitigate bot traffic, such as applying CAPTCHA challenges, JavaScript challenges, rate limiting, and IP blocking.
Behavioral Analysis: The solution analyzes user behavior, mouse movements, navigation patterns, and other factors to distinguish between human users and bots. This behavioral analysis helps improve accuracy in bot detection.
Real-time Monitoring and Reporting: Akamai Bot Manager provides real-time monitoring of bot activities and offers detailed reports and analytics to gain insights into bot traffic patterns, trends, and emerging threats.
Customizable Rules and Policies: Organizations can create custom rules and policies to handle specific bot threats and tailor the bot management approach according to their unique requirements.
Integration with Other Security Solutions: Akamai Bot Manager integrates with other security solutions, including web application firewalls (WAFs) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, to provide a comprehensive defense against multiple types of attacks.

Akamai Bot Manager is known for its scalability, reliability, and global network infrastructure, which enables it to handle high volumes of bot traffic and ensure minimal impact on website performance. It is suitable for organizations of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises, across various industries.

Overall, Akamai Bot Manager helps organizations proactively detect, mitigate, and manage bot threats, safeguarding their online assets and ensuring a secure and seamless user experience.

Reviews from Real Users

Neha Shakyawar, Head of Information at a leisure / travel company, states that "The most valuable features of Akamai Bot Manager are the seamless integration and accuracy with which it detects the bots that can make attacks."

Another PeerSpot user, Staff Engineer at a retailer, writes that the solution is "Very easy to scale. Adding new domains or subdomains is a super easy process.", they also adds that “Akamai Bot Manager works effectively right out of the box. However, if you need to create custom use cases, you must adjust your settings and tools accordingly.”

Chief Technologist at a financial services company, says that "Akamai Bot Manager has more advanced rules that allow it to detect and block bot scrapers."

Akamai

Link11, headquartered in Germany, offers cloud-based IT security services designed to prevent business disruptions, enhancing cyber resilience for IT networks and critical applications globally. Their services benefit industries across Europe, North America, and Asia with comprehensive protection.

Link11 provides a range of security and performance solutions, including Network Security, Web Application & API Protection, and Application Performance solutions. Their offerings encompass Network DDoS protection and an all-in-one WAAP solution, featuring Web Application Firewall, Web DDoS Protection, Bot Management, API Protection, and Secure CDN & DNS. A high-performance global network, monitored 24/7 by the Link11 Security Operations Center, ensures robust defense mechanisms.

What are the key features of Link11?

User-friendly dashboard simplifies monitoring and management.
Real-time monitoring provides instant visibility into potential threats.
Advanced DDoS protection safeguards against various attack vectors.
API integration enhances mobile app security.
Comprehensive bot management includes ATO and botnet blocking.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Seamless security management supported by dedicated customer support channels.
Efficient rule creation and prioritization streamline security workflows.
Continuous improvements in filtering against SQL and script injections enhance security.
Effective activity monitoring provides alerts on suspicious activities.

Link11 is suited for industries wanting to protect web applications against Layer 7 DDoS attacks, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and phishing attempts. Deployed on cloud models, Link11 integrates as a fundamental security layer, offering effective bot management and securing websites with multiple technologies.

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