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Akamai App & API Protector vs. Cloudflare Magic Transit

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai App & API Protector
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.N/A
Cloudflare Magic Transit
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Cloudflare Magic Transit provides a cloud-native solution designed to protect an organization's entire network infrastructure from sophisticated DDoS attacks and evolving cyber threats. By leveraging Cloudflare's global Anycast network, Magic Transit extends the same advanced security and performance benefits applied to web applications to an organization's entire IP space, including all protocols and even non-HTTP traffic. DDoS Mitigation at Scale Magic…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API ProtectorCloudflare Magic Transit
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Enterprises
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Akamai App & API Protector
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well
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Cloudflare
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Pros
Akamai
  • Web Security
  • Bot managment
  • Rate Control
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Cloudflare
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Cons
Akamai
  • Custom rules might be hard to configure
  • For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend
  • Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC
Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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Cloudflare
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Fair Security investment
  • An attack impact would be higher
  • Support contract is not cheap
Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Randy Varela
Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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Cloudflare
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