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Akamai Bot Manager

cdn-bot-manager · Akamai · public (AKAM)

Marketing claims

No claim captured yet.

Sanctioned test surfaces

A — vendor invites testing · B — our own deployment · C — passive observation

Our test results

No sanctioned runs recorded yet.

Real-world challenge rate (passive, anonymized)

Across 40 sites detected running Akamai Bot Manager, this is what a default automated client met:

ServedChallengedBlocked

Site identities are not published. This measures whether a vanilla client is challenged — no bypass performed.

Detection is by CDN fingerprint, so “served” means the site sits behind Akamai Bot Manager but a default bot was not actively challenged — CDN presence is not proof the paid bot-management product is engaged. The challenged + blocked share is where protection actively fired.

Cited external benchmarks

• Scrapfly — Akamai bypass — reported bypass 97%
  Self-reported by Scrapfly (commercial bypass API) — vendor marketing figure, not independently verified (captured 2026-08-14).
• techinz/browsers-benchmark
  Independent open-source browser-automation benchmark; per-engine bypass rates vary.

We cite these rather than generating real-world bypass numbers against non-consenting production systems. Commercial-vendor figures are self-reported marketing claims, flagged as such above — treat them as the ceiling a paying bypass service advertises.