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Akamai Bot Manager pros and cons

Vendor: Akamai
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Akamai Bot Manager is easy to scale and add new domains or subdomains.
It provides advanced rules for detecting and blocking bot scrapers.
Akamai Bot Manager helps protect transactional endpoints, offering immediate security benefits.
It aids in understanding bot traffic, differentiating between good and bad bots.
The seamless integration and high accuracy in bot detection, with no false positives, are highly valued features.

CONS

Akamai Bot Manager lacks capabilities to block illegitimate web scrapers due to insufficient information on origins and remote VPNs.
The system requires improvement in handling advanced bot attacks, with a need for automatic fine-tuning using machine learning.
Customer support for Akamai Bot Manager presents areas needing improvement.
Akamai Bot Manager's anomaly feature is not effective against advanced bots mimicking human behavior.
Enhancements are needed in SDK integration to ensure seamless interactions with mobile applications.
 

Akamai Bot Manager Pros review quotes

RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Jun 4, 2026
Overall, Akamai Bot Manager has been a valuable addition to my security strategy, providing strong protection against a wide range of automated threats while maintaining a good experience for legitimate users.
Denis Burnaev - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Securiy & Cyber Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 10, 2025
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.
SR
Cyber Security Sales Executive at EVSPL
May 13, 2026
Since we implemented Akamai Bot Manager, our team is saving about 10 hours a week on manual monitoring, and we estimate a cost reduction of around 15% in fraud-related losses.
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Gavin Pinho - PeerSpot reviewer
Privacy & Risk Management Vice President, Information Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
May 8, 2024
In terms of the security provided, the benefits from the use of the product are immediately visible.
PallaviSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Oct 27, 2023
The best feature is the BNP. That is what Manager Premium does, protection of transactional endpoints.
KE
Cyber Recovery Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 13, 2023
Akamai Bot Manager has two valuable features: BMS (Bot Manager Standard) and BMP (Bot Manager Premier).
HI
IS/IT Consultant at Wipro Limited
Oct 16, 2023
Based on the telemetry, Akamai Bot Manager gives a rough estimate of all the hits and requests we get, which are suspected bots.
reviewer1892376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technologist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Jul 7, 2022
Akamai Bot Manager has more advanced rules that allow it to detect and block bot scrapers.
reviewer2161107 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 25, 2023
Akamai Bot Manager is very easy to scale. Adding new domains or subdomains is a super easy process.
Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees
Sep 14, 2022
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 Cons review quotes

RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Jun 4, 2026
In terms of improvement, overall, Akamai Bot Manager is a strong solution, but there are a few areas where it could be improved.
Denis Burnaev - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Securiy & Cyber Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 10, 2025
The anomaly feature is not really helpful. Bots are very clever these days and they move through the website the way humans do.
SR
Cyber Security Sales Executive at EVSPL
May 13, 2026
The biggest friction point I have encountered with Akamai Bot Manager has been the occasional delay in bot detection updates.
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Gavin Pinho - PeerSpot reviewer
Privacy & Risk Management Vice President, Information Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
May 8, 2024
I feel that customer support has certain concerns where improvements are required.
PallaviSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Oct 27, 2023
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.
KE
Cyber Recovery Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 13, 2023
We cannot block illegitimate web scrapers because Akamai Bot Manager does not provide detailed information about various origins and remote VPNs they come through.
HI
IS/IT Consultant at Wipro Limited
Oct 16, 2023
Akamai Bot Manager Premier has some additional functionalities, particularly for web telemetry, but they don't have it for app telemetry.
reviewer1892376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technologist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Jul 7, 2022
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.
reviewer2161107 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 25, 2023
In my opinion, the UI of Akamai Bot Manager is a bit unconventional and not as intuitive as one might expect.
Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees
Sep 14, 2022
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.