Name: Bot Manager
Rating: 4.8 (121 reviews)

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Product Information on Bot Manager

Updated 24th November 2025

What is Bot Manager?

Bot Manager is a solution designed to detect, manage, and mitigate automated traffic on websites and applications. The solution uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and threat intelligence to identify and classify bot activity, helping organizations protect their digital assets from adversarial bot attacks, fraudulent transactions, credential abuse, and web scraping. Bot Manager enables businesses to gain insights into bot traffic patterns, provides reporting capabilities, and offers customizable mitigation methods to address business needs and risk tolerance. The solution addresses the challenge of distinguishing human users from automated bots, thereby supporting operational integrity and reducing the impact of malicious automation on online platforms and services.

Overall experience with Bot Manager

It Security & Risk Management Associate

500M - 1B USD, Transportation

FAVORABLE

“Strong behavioral detection with tuning needed for API accuracy”

5.0

May 25, 2026

Akamai Bot Manager is a powerful, enterprise-grade bot protection solution that excels in detection and visibility, but proper tuning and operational expertise to maximize its effectiveness.

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

500M - 1B USD, Retail

CRITICAL

“Streamlining Traffic Management: Examining Akamai Bot Manager's Pros and Cons”

3.0

Apr 18, 2025

Akamai Bot Manager is natively integrated with Site Accelerator, enabling quick deployment. By leveraging the same edge delivery infra, Bot Manager ca be activated with minimal configuration changes.

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For Market:
Online Fraud Detection (Retired)

About Company

Company Description

Akamai is the AI infrastructure company that builds, secures, and scales applications on a massively distributed network. Our cloud, cybersecurity, and content delivery services give our customers mission-critical resilience, instant AI-driven experiences, and flawless streaming across the globe.

Company Details

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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Performance of Bot Manager Across Market Features

Bot Manager Likes & Dislikes

What I like most about Akamai Bot Manager is its strong visibility and accurate behavioral detection which allows me to clearly distinguish between legitimate users and automated or malicious bot traffic.

Detecting bot traffic at the Edge Fully automated, no or close to no maintenance Available reporting tools

Low error blocking response

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While Akamai Bot Manager is highly effective, one challenge is the level of tuning required to reduce false positives, particularly for API and mobile traffic, which can sometimes be misclassified as bot activity.

Could be costly for small and medium companies Licensing model is hard to understand It lacks flexibility, limiting adaptability across dynamic environments

- In the event of a false disconnection, the only solution we can implement in-house is a temporary fix at the source of the connection, which slightly reduces our sense of security. - When we check the cost required to perform the fundamental configuration work, it seems a bit expensive. - Emergency response costs double.

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Bot Manager Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(122 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 67%
4 Star: 31%
3 Star: 2%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.7

Product Capabilities

4.6

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It Security & Risk Management Associate
50M-1B USD
Transportation
Review Source
Strong behavioral detection with tuning needed for API accuracy
5.0
May 25, 2026
Akamai Bot Manager is a powerful, enterprise-grade bot protection solution that excels in detection and visibility, but proper tuning and operational expertise to maximize its effectiveness.
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
10B+ USD
Energy and Utilities
Review Source
The importance of operational decisions in implementing and operating bot countermeasures.
4.0
May 13, 2026
They provided a clear explanation of bot countermeasures, something we had no prior experience with, and helped us understand the relationship between bots and recommended settings, enabling us to implement them effectively.
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IT Associate
50M-1B USD
Manufacturing
Review Source
Minimal Impact on Legitimate Users and Accuracy in Blocking Malicious Bots
5.0
Mar 22, 2026
The platform provides strong visibility into traffic behavior, making it easier to differentiate between genuine users and bots. Integration is smooth and it works well with existing security layers.
Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
50M-1B USD
Services (non-Government)
Review Source
Akamai Blocks Malicious Bots Effectively but Panels Lack Detailed Information
5.0
Mar 9, 2026
Using this feature every day, we can be sure that Akamai is doing the right work. For sure all the bots that try to penetrate our systems are being blocked in the proper way.
Manager, It Security And Risk Management
50M-1B USD
Travel and Hospitality
Review Source
Akamai BMP Offers Reliable Bot Detection but Faces Integration Issues with Other CDNs
5.0
Mar 5, 2026
Akamai's BMP provides accurate bot detection, strong mitigation and real-time visibility. This makes it ideal for protecting high-traffic sites from scraping attacks, credential sniffing attacks and automated attacks.

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