Category answer

WAF and Bot Management

11,966,860

companies run at least one of the 61 technologies in it, 21.9% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Web application firewalls, DDoS protection, bot detection, browser fingerprinting.

The subcategories

Companies running any technology in eachof 11,966,860 in WAF and Bot Managementlanding 12 Sept 2026

Bot management platforms11,553,429 DDoS mitigation services315,634 CAPTCHA services190,327 Web application firewalls163,881 Website anti-spam plugins71,940 Client-side web application security387

A company running technologies in two subcategories is counted in both, so the shares do not sum to 100%

The 6 subcategories in this chart

Subcategory	Companies	Share of the category
Bot management platforms	11,553,429	96.5%
DDoS mitigation services	315,634	2.6%
CAPTCHA services	190,327	1.6%
Web application firewalls	163,881	1.4%
Website anti-spam plugins	71,940	0.60%
Client-side web application security	387	<0.01%

The technologies ranked in WAF and Bot Management

Companiesof 11,966,860 with any of themlanding 12 Sept 2026

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Technology

Vendor

Companies

Share

1

reCAPTCHA

Google

8,524,510

71.2%

2

Cloudflare Bot Management

Cloudflare, Inc.

3,652,895

30.5%

3

Sucuri WAF

Sucuri

101,851

0.85%

4

hCaptcha

Intuition Machines

101,844

0.85%

5

ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7

IQComputing

27,186

0.23%

6

Yandex SmartCaptcha

Yandex

26,496

0.22%

7

Imperva SecureSphere

Imperva

25,122

0.21%

8

Akamai Bot Manager

Akamai Technologies

18,350

0.15%

9

DataDome

16,825

0.14%

10

Friendly Captcha

Friendly Captcha GmbH

12,782

0.11%

11

CleanTalk

12,069

0.10%

12

Variti

VARITI

12,029

0.10%

13

FortiWeb

Fortinet

9,340

0.08%

14

SiteLock

SiteLock (a Sectigo company)

6,627

0.06%

15

AWS WAF Captcha

Amazon Web Services

4,704

0.04%

16

MaxMind

MaxMind, Inc.

1,900

0.02%

17

Slider Captcha

ArgoZhang

1,364

0.01%

18

PerimeterX

HUMAN Security

1,318

0.01%

19

Akamai Web Application Protector

Akamai Technologies

1,085

<0.01%

20

TruValidate

TransUnion

700

<0.01%

21

Tencent Waterproof Wall

Tencent

664

<0.01%

22

AntiBot.Cloud

513

<0.01%

23

GeeTest

473

<0.01%

24

MTCaptcha

382

<0.01%

24 of 61 technologiesa company running two of them is counted in both, so the shares do not sum to 100%under 20 companies no share is published

The 31 more technologies in WAF and Bot Management, ranked

Technology	Vendor	Companies
ThreatMetrix	LexisNexis Risk Solutions	314
Coinimp	CoinIMP	270
Really Simple CAPTCHA	Takayuki Miyoshi	239
Radware AppWall	Radware	221
IBM WebSphere DataPower	IBM	172
Wordfence	Defiant Inc.	144
Arkose Labs	Arkose Labs	130
Kasada	Kasada	90
Mollom	Acquia	89
ARCaptcha	ARCaptcha	87
CoinHive	CoinHive	47
RapidSec	RapidSec	44
Human Presence	Human Presence	30
Barracuda Web Application Firewall	Barracuda Networks	14
adCAPTCHA	adCAPTCHA	13
Minero.cc	Minero	9
Cloud Guard	Cloud Guard	9
Castle	Castle	7
Solve Media	Solve Media	7
Crypto-Loot	Crypto-Loot	7
CoinHive Captcha	CoinHive	6
Minerstat	Minerstat	6
Combahton FlowShield	Combahton	4
Coinhave	Coinhave	3
deepMiner		2
WAR.PE	WAR.PE	1
FOCUS WebWall	AppSphere AG	1
Picatcha	Picatcha	0
Shape Security	F5, Inc. (Shape Security)	0
NexusPIPE	NexusPIPE	0
Captch Me	Captch Me	0

6 of the 10 most detected technologies here sit under the publication gate on detector quality of 0.90, so they are listed rather than ranked: DDoS-Guard 315,634, Akismet 107,839, FingerprintJS 63,242, Altcha 47,155, Email Encoder for Wordpress 44,819, Imperva 27,499.

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Domain of the taxonomy

Security and Identity

The top of the tree. 61 technologies sit under this category.

CatalogueEvery technology, rankedFiltered to this category with ?category=waf-bot-management.