

Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
Aikido Security caught a critical remote code execution vulnerability in my Python machine learning pipelines before it reached production.
Since we got rid of that, our productivity has increased, I believe, by thirty-two percent.
We were expecting to complete the compliance in a month, but I figured out Aikido Security could do it within a week for all our 13 repositories.
I wouldn't be able to give a number, but Radware Cloud WAF does save time for our staff due to the automation and excellent detection, which is invaluable.
With our on-prem solution, we spent a lot of time on maintenance tasks, OS updates, and ensuring appliances ran smoothly, but with Cloud WAF, all that is managed by the cloud team, allowing us to focus on alert analysis.
We get major insights from the analytics rules and dashboards, allowing us to pinpoint main issues.
Aikido Security was the easiest to use, the easiest to onboard, and the one with the most active customer support.
Their team proactively reached out after signup to ensure we were set up correctly.
Customer support is good; if you raise a query, hardly within a day, your issues get resolved.
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the technical support that Radware provides for Cloud WAF Service a perfect ten.
I would give the Radware technical support a ten out of ten. They are definitely outstanding.
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer support a ten.
That kind of reliability becomes invisible when it works well, which is exactly what you want from a security tool running in your CI/CD pipelines.
Aikido Security scales well by supporting multiple projects, repositories, and development teams on a single platform.
You can deploy it on your team, and if you have a large team, it works very well.
The scalability of Radware Cloud WAF Service rates as a perfect ten out of ten, as we haven't encountered any scaling issues.
The scalability of the Radware Cloud WAF Service deserves a full ten, as it is definitely scalable.
In terms of scalability, it's also a 10 out of 10 because we are using Radware Cloud WAF Service for more than 60,000 employees in our organization, and it works perfectly fine.
The platform has been reliable and provides accurate security findings.
It remains stable even when generating a large amount of code.
The stability of Radware Cloud WAF Service is excellent, and I would rate it as a ten.
The stability of Radware Cloud WAF Service is perfect; I would rate it a ten out of ten.
Regarding stability, I can say that in the last one and a half years, I haven't seen any downtime.
I would love to see a Terraform module for Aikido Security.
I had a certain object with a UUID that was being considered as a private secret key or API key, which was not the case.
Aikido Security tells you what is vulnerable, but sometimes the fix suggestions are generic.
It would be beneficial if we could perform POST requests and integrate our applications more effectively.
The documentation is not up to par, as while the platform's system is robust, the documentation, particularly for API integration, could be more developer-friendly with real-world use cases.
To improve Radware Cloud WAF Service, I believe it should enable full application and API coverage to ensure all web applications and APIs, including internal and legacy web services, are onboarded.
I used the free trial, which was sufficient for evaluating the platform and its core features.
Aikido Security has a plan for $4,200 annually for up to 10 users.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the pricing is reasonable and based on the repository; they charge accordingly.
Pricing could be more competitive, especially for smaller customers.
I find Radware Cloud WAF to be a quite expensive product compared to others.
The pricing is not cheap; it is expensive, but it is effective.
We were able to get all codebase vulnerability fixes within a week for all our 13 or 14 repositories that we had.
Security shifted left, meaning issues were caught during development rather than after deployment.
My favorite feature is the dependency vulnerability scanning because it quickly identifies the risk in third-party packages, which saves me time in finding vulnerabilities.
The most important aspect of Radware Cloud WAF is that it is over the cloud, offering a comprehensive solution that includes WAF, API protection, bots, and Layer 7 DDoS.
It has features such as API security that protect against advanced attacks, including business logic attacks.
The automated analytics for looking at events in Radware Cloud WAF Service are working for us; the automatic event correlation is very beneficial to analyze how the alerts and events occur and visualize the patterns of network traffic and other traffic going in and out from the application via Radware Cloud WAF Service.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Radware Cloud WAF Service | 1.6% |
| Aikido Security | 0.5% |
| Other | 97.9% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 6 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 17 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 50 |
Aikido Security is the no-nonsense platform that empowers developers by centralizing code-to-cloud security issues and providing rapid guidance for fixing vulnerabilities.
With over 6,000 teams utilizing its features, Aikido Security prioritizes effective security management by consolidating 11 comprehensive scans into one platform. This approach translates complex vulnerabilities into understandable insights, targeting non-enterprise SaaS businesses with engineering teams of 10-500 developers. It focuses on delivering security management without excessive costs or complexity through a product-led growth model.
What are the standout features of Aikido Security?In industries like software development and cloud services, Aikido Security is implemented to provide clear insights, enabling teams to focus on rapid product growth while maintaining robust security. Its product-led growth strategy, including a freemium offering, allows developers to experience benefits firsthand without initial investment.
Radware Cloud Application Protection Services is a cloud-delivered service that protects web applications and APIs across all environments against any type of application layer attack. It includes an advanced WAF, bot and AI agent trust management, account takeover protection, API security, DDoS protection, LLM firewall, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, and client-side protection. It uses AI-driven behavioral analysis to distinguish legitimate from malicious traffic and automatically adapt security policies, protecting against known vectors such as the OWASP Top 10, API Top 10, Top 21 automated threats, LLM Top 10, and more, as well as business logic attacks and supply chain attacks on the client side. The service is delivered through a global network of points of presence and scrubbing centers, using a proprietary API-based architecture that also allows for deployment without DNS changes, traffic rerouting, or SSL key sharing. It supports on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments, helps organizations comply with standards such as PCI DSS 4, NIS2, GDPR, HIPAA, and DORA, and includes threat intelligence and 24x7 managed security support.
Radware Cloud Application Protection Services are offered through a subscription-based pricing model, with fees determined by selected service tiers and specific application coverage required by the client. The service is structured to provide different levels of protection and features, and cost is typically based on factors such as the number of applications, bandwidth usage, and specific security functionalities included in the chosen package.
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