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Akamai App & API Protector vs. Fastly DDoS Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai App & API Protector
Score 8.0 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
Fastly DDoS Protection
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Fastly DDoS Protection is used to keep any application and API available and performant with an adaptive solution built to automatically and accurately mitigate DDoS at any scale.
$0
per month
Pricing
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly DDoS Protection
Editions & Modules
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for the first 500,000 requests
$0
per month
500 Million - 3 Billion
$.10
per month 10,000 Requests
100 Million - 500 Million
$.16
per month 10,000 Requests
50 Million - 100 Million
$.30
per month 10,000 Requests
10 Million - 50 Million
$.50
per month 10,000 Requests
0.5 Million - 10 Million Requests
$1.00
per month 10,000 Requests
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly DDoS Protection
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly DDoS Protection
User Ratings
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly DDoS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly DDoS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Pros
  • Web Security
  • Bot managment
  • Rate Control
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Cons
  • 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
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Return on Investment
  • Fair Security investment
  • An attack impact would be higher
  • Support contract is not cheap
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Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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