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Akamai API Security vs Wallarm NG WAF comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

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

Akamai API Security
Ranking in API Security
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Wallarm NG WAF
Ranking in API Security
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (40th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the API Security category, the mindshare of Akamai API Security is 9.1%, down from 20.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wallarm NG WAF is 3.9%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Akamai API Security9.1%
Wallarm NG WAF3.9%
Other87.0%
API Security
 

Featured Reviews

Alark Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at Allianz
Advanced API defense has protected web channels and consistently reduced downtime and incident impact
Akamai API Security helps comply with DORA compliance in the Europe region, preventing any compliance issues. It helps demonstrate that the ISO understands the secured side is protected by Akamai API Security, ensuring that if any DOS attack is present, it will not occur or take the side down. Currently, no improvements are apparent. In the last few years, there was improvement as bot attacks have been addressed, with more focus now placed on bot attacks. At that time, there was a drawback, but Akamai API Security is improving day by day. Currently, no drawbacks are evident, and the product is good. Akamai API Security is delivering the best products every year.
it_user796242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Helps us to monitor attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them
Set up Wallarm as a reverse proxy. Do not replace your web server. Use Wallarm first in monitoring mode, then learn from Wallarm which type of request is false positive and which type of request is not. This process takes a couple of weeks for very highly-loaded web applications (few millions of unique visitors in one month). Then you can turn Wallarm into blocking mode and everything will be fine. Do not forget to build a monitoring system, the wave, and API for it. Before we started using Wallarm, I already knew Ivan (CEO) and Stepan (COO) from a couple of years before. Ivan had his own security company and Stepan was working on a Russian security magazine called Xakep. They told us that they wanted to create a new WAF and already had a working version of it. They asked me to test it. We did tests, and it was really good. After few month after testing, we signed an agreement. Our choice was made not because we knew these guys for a long time, but because the product was really cool and we were glad to start using it as one of the first on the market!

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Akamai API Security has made a positive difference for our organization by improving our security posture and saving our team time, as we can actually prioritize tasks unless there are some false positives, but it is definitely saving a lot of time."
"If I had to say something positive about the product that brings me the biggest benefit, I would say visibility."
"Akamai API Security has positively impacted my organization by increasing visibility into the API attack surface, reducing exposure of undocumented endpoints, better aligning with zero-trust and security-by-design principles, and improving governance over the API life cycle."
"The support from Akamai API Security is good, the employment and support are of excellent quality."
"API throttling is the most valuable feature of Akamai API Security."
"Akamai API Security has impacted my organization positively because when a user tries to access our servers from all over the world, the traffic first hits the DNS security or Akamai edge firewall before reaching our perimeter or infrastructure."
"What I already appreciate about Akamai API Security is that initially we were struggling with how to get this configured, but after that everything went smoothly."
"Akamai API Security has positively impacted my organization by increasing visibility into the API attack surface, reducing exposure of undocumented endpoints, better aligning with zero-trust and security-by-design principles, and improving governance over the API life cycle."
"With active threat detection, we are no longer over-swamped with tons of useless events."
"They are the only solution that fits our success criteria and business objectives: WAF must have a low (<5%) false negative rate and be ready to protect from all well-known web attacks."
"The most powerful feature is the ability to first learn what type of query to make to your web application when it is attacked and what type of query creates a false positive to your app."
"Perimeter control and active vulnerability scanner are the most valuable features."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"Vulnerability scanner and WAF are valuable features."
 

Cons

"The main challenges we had with Akamai API Security were how to set it up on the AWS cloud environment and how to access this portal."
"A potential improvement for Akamai API Security would be more granular risk scoring per API asset."
"I think it would be good if they can integrate more with API gateways as this is currently limited."
"More features would be beneficial."
"However, there is one drawback regarding technical support. Akamai API Security makes back-end changes because a SaaS solution is being used; sometimes they inform about changes, and sometimes they do not, which impacts clients as a P1 or P2 incident."
"I see some areas for improvement in Akamai API Security because the adoption is not easy since it takes time to learn and configure."
"The challenge I found was with contextualization and how analytics are generated."
"It would be beneficial to use machine learning and API throttling together to identify how the APIs are called and whether it's coming from the right person or the wrong person."
"It needs more customization in PDF reports."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."
"There were several stability issues during the first pilot."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm."
"Technical support is 6 or 7 out of 10. Sometimes we have had trouble with communication and understanding."
"Wallarm uses a learning mechanism to detect attacks and to avoid false positives. If Wallarm blocks some illegitimate request, then you can go to the management console and mark this request as false positive, but sometimes this does not work properly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a limit to the number of APIs we can use inside a bundle, and we have to pay extra if we exceed that limit."
"​Pricing must be cheaper than the competition and the licensing must be good.​"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise7
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Akamai API Security?
It is not expensive. It is practical to use and represents an excellent solution.
What needs improvement with Akamai API Security?
The tool is blocking and only the person who has access to the tool can actually see how many DDoS attacks were blocked. Since I do not log in to the portal myself, I am unaware of this capability....
What is your primary use case for Akamai API Security?
Since multiple teams were involved in issue resolving, at least ten plus people from our side were involved in the implementation process. Everyone was contributing, even if we consider two per tea...
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Sample Customers

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Panasonic. Miro. Rappi. Wargaming. Gannett. Omio. Acronis. Workforce Software. Tipalti. SEMRush.
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