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Akamai API Security

byAkamai
in API Protection
4.6

Overview

Product Information on Akamai API Security

Updated 29th September 2025

What is Akamai API Security?

Akamai API Security is a purpose-built solution that protects APIs across their entire lifecycle—from code to production. It aligns with four core domains: Discovery, Posture Management, Runtime Protection, and Testing. Discovery builds a complete API inventory through traffic analysis, code scanning, and external recon, reducing blind spots and attack surface. Posture Management ensures APIs stay compliant and properly configured. Runtime Protection uses machine learning to baseline behavior, detect anomalies, and stop sophisticated attacks in real time. Active Testing integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines to run 150+ advanced tests and guide developers with in-workflow remediation. With broad integrations across WAFs, gateways, SIEMs, ITSMs, and CI/CD tools, Akamai helps enterprises secure APIs, streamline collaboration between security and development, and ensure resilience against evolving API-driven threats.

Akamai API Security Pricing

Akamai API Security uses a consumption-based pricing model, charging by the number of API requests processed monthly. Overages and contract commitments may affect final pricing, offering scalable protection for diverse API needs.

Akamai API Security Product Images

Compliance Dashboard
Compliance Dashboard
Security Overview Dashboard
Security Overview Dashboard
API Inventory
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Overall experience with Akamai API Security

IT Security & Risk Management Associate
10B - 30B USD, Consumer Goods
FAVORABLE

“Strong Real-Time API Security Faces Alert Noise And Flexible Reporting Shortcomings”

5.0
Jan 24, 2026
Our overall experience with Akamai API Security has been very positive the solution provides strong visibility into API traffic, effective discovery of shadow and unmanaged APIs, robust protection against common and advanced API threats, real-time monitoring, detailed analytics and a seamless integration with a very scalable and reliable solution for securing APIs.
SENIOR AUTOMATION ENGINEER
<50M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Good just very config heavy”

3.0
Feb 14, 2024
Overall good once its setup, but there is a lot of setup and configuration required

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences – helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences closer to users and keeps threats farther away.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Cambridge, United States
Number of employees
5001 - 10000
Website
https://www.akamai.com

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Akamai API Security Likes & Dislikes

Like

A valuable aspect of SecurityScore is its deep visibility into API traffic and automatic discovery of shadow and undocumented APIs. Real-time threat detection at the edge combined with strong and seamless integration with Akamai's...

Like

Very customizable So many rules and options Easy to deploy

Like

The API discovery of this feature is huge. It makes troubleshooting possible security incidents very easy. Another feature that is great is the alerting and flexibility with how that can be configured. They really seemed to put a lot of time into that part of the platform. Finally the product does a really good job at detecting issues and making sure it's clear which ones need attention immediately.

Dislike

The main challenges with Akamai's API securtiyt is the initial setup and tuning which can be comple and time consuming, especially when defining policies for diverse APIs, alert noise can also be high until proper baselining is acheived, and reporiting customization could be more flexible for specific business or compliance needs.

Dislike

So much config, takes a while to fully setup Expensive Dashboards are very cluttered

Dislike

Since this platform has many configuration options it can be challenging to figure out where to go to do certain things. That being said there are great tutorials on how to use it and get around those challenges. Sometimes there can be false positives like any tool but the platform has a way to learn based on user input so it gets better with time. The product sometimes can have so much information that it can be challenging to handle all of the issues, the platform does show which are what severity so that helps with this.

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Peer Discussions

Akamai API Security Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(136 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
57%
4 Star
41%
3 Star
1%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Strong Real-Time API Security Faces Alert Noise And Flexible Reporting Shortcomings

    5.0
    Jan 24, 2026
    Our overall experience with Akamai API Security has been very positive the solution provides strong visibility into API traffic, effective discovery of shadow and unmanaged APIs, robust protection against common and advanced API threats, real-time monitoring, detailed analytics and a seamless integration with a very scalable and reliable solution for securing APIs.
  • Software Developer
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Platform Learns From User Input to Improve Accuracy and Incident Prioritization

    5.0
    Nov 4, 2025
    We've had a great experience with this product. They were eager to add new features and helped us whenever we had issues with configuration or questions about how to maximize the use of the tool.
  • ENGINEER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Akamai’s Behavioral Analytics Uncovers Hidden API Endpoints and Logic Abuse Incidents

    4.0
    Jan 5, 2026
    We initially brought Akamai in just to get a handle on our shadow API problem, but it has become a core part of our SOC workflow. The platform gives us visibility into endpoints we didn't even know were public. Behavioral analytics are the real standout, catching logic abuse that our standard WAF completely misses. It took a few weeks to tune the baseline, but now the signal-to-noise ratio is excellent.
  • Information Security Specialist
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Advanced Protection, Global Scalability, and Deep Visibility for Modern API Security

    5.0
    Jan 29, 2026
    Our overall experience with Akamai API Security has been excellent. The platform is mature, stable, and highly effective in protecting complex, large-scale environments. It provides strong visibility, advanced protection capatibilities, and semless integration with our existing security tools. Support is responsive and knowledgeable, and the solution consistently improves our security posture and incident-response efficiency.
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Short Communication Lines With Akamai Team Lead to Efficient Implementation

    4.0
    Nov 17, 2025
    We experienced a running start with systems being delivered quickly, data flowing within hours of implementation, and meaningful results already after the first week.
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