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Arkose vs Imperva Application Security Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Arkose
Ranking in Bot Management
8th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (23rd), Anomaly Detection Tools (4th)
Imperva Application Securit...
Ranking in Bot Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
135
Ranking in other categories
CDN (3rd), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (3rd), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (4th), API Security (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Bot Management category, the mindshare of Arkose is 3.8%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Imperva Application Security Platform is 15.3%, down from 19.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Bot Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Imperva Application Security Platform15.3%
Arkose3.8%
Other80.9%
Bot Management
 

Featured Reviews

Vijay Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Robosoft Technologies
Provide different types of challenges to secure way to communicate tokens and good for multi-platform or device-supported application
I would recommend to use it if someone is interested in using Arkose for the first time. You provide authentication when a user types their username and password on your website or mobile app. But, you also provide an extra layer of security with Arkose by using an extra token. We can use it on websites, at least. For mobile, people use authentication with Google or phone numbers. It's authenticated by OTP. Google and Apple already provide default sign-ins, so there's no need for Arkose on mobile unless you use custom email IDs and passwords without SSO. You can use it on websites to create custom fields for registration and login. The documentation is also good. Maybe there is room for improvement on the backend side. But for usability and implementation, it would be a ten. I didn't face any issues when I implemented it in our applications.
reviewer1247523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Solution ensures website availability and proactive threat mitigation
Over the seven years, the most valuable features of Imperva DDoS that I have found are related to DDoS attacks, which are a group of attacks, and not all of them can be resolved on the endpoint level before the website. Using the web firewall before the website is a common use case to protect against malicious requests to the website. I have utilized Imperva's Intelligent Traffic Filtering feature. This feature helps me understand how the attack is progressing and what is happening inside the requests to our website. It allows me to granularly grant or deny access to certain parts of our website. This helps when we know our customers and the types of requests that can be sent from them, enabling us to block some malicious requests. Imperva DDoS has User Behavior Analytics and Threat Intelligence on its board, and this helps us to be protected proactively. Imperva DDoS connects to its database of threats, storing whole information about attacks all over the world in one simple engine. Everyone can use this feature, which can connect to this engine and get information about what is going on at the world level. That is the way to be protected at the company's level. The integration capabilities of Imperva DDoS are very easy and simple. We can run it in 2 hours.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I also like that they challenge crawling in CAPTCHA for mobile. This is good compared to the traditional way."
"It has threat intelligence and we are using Incapsula. With threat intelligence, we can separate HTTP and HTTPS traffic. We can use Incapsula to send all the threat intelligence to the WAF."
"It has fewer false positives"
"This implementation helped our organization a lot in handling web attacks by hackers and other malicious intruders."
"It is easy to use and has good security."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"Incapsula delivers a massive improvement to website performance and security in less than 20 minutes, regardless of the CMS."
"The features that are most valuable are the protection against denial-of-service attacks and all kinds of other internet attacks."
"Very intuitive and granular configuration - It does not require much time, or advanced knowledge, for configuration and maintenance."
 

Cons

"Arkose need to provide something for testing."
"On the negative side, API security mainly supports cloud-based solutions, while most of my customers prefer on-prem setups, so achieving high performance with on-prem solutions would be beneficial."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"The UI interface needs improvement."
"I would rate the solution as an 8 out of 10, simply because of the difficulty of operation management. It's a complicated tool to keep."
"It would be nice to have more security control over mobile applications so I would suggest adding more mobile security features. It would also be beneficial to see improvements in regards to interface bandwidth performance, CPU time, and RAM size. Learning capability of the device is quite weak."
"I guess the GUI could be improved a little, as it’s not always simple to get."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"It is a very affordable solution."
"For enterprise contracts you will be in touch with a dedicated account manager who will guide you regarding licensing."
"The tool's pricing is good."
"We have an issue with Imperva Incapsula in the Iraqi market because of the high price."
"​Although the pricing can be a little high, it is worth the protection and security that it offers.​"
"Imperva Web Application Firewall price is higher compared to other solutions. However, everything is included in the price."
"We sell three-year licenses for Imperva Web Application Firewall to our customers. The price is a little expensive."
"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
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Comparison Review

it_user68487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Expert with 51-200 employees
Nov 6, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business84
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise62
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Arkose?
Arkose need to provide something for testing. Maybe some test accounts or testing features. For example, I need to check our Arkose token fully, but sometimes it doesn't appear. Even if we are sett...
What is your primary use case for Arkose?
The main use case of Arkose was for fraud prevention. But we also used secure connections between servers using keys. Arkose provides secret and private keys. When we hit a request, we pass those k...
Which Web Application Firewall (WAF) would you recommend? R&S or Imperva?
Imperva is a strong choice, given their security focus and ongoing R&D into the product in areas such as bot management.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva DDoS?
The pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Imperva DDoS are reasonable for the amount of technical capabilities provided. I would rate the pricing of Imperva DDoS as five, where one is very cheap a...
What needs improvement with Imperva DDoS?
I would like to see improvements in the pooling of threats and attacks, possibly to enlarge the scale of indicators of compromise. For example, the initiation of an attack on the endpoint level cou...
 

Also Known As

Arkose Email Intelligence, Arkose Bot Manager
Imperva Bot Management, Imperva Web Application Firewall, Imperva API Security
 

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Sample Customers

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