# Fastly Bot Management: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/fastly-bot-management

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Bot management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/bot-management/index.md) | 0% | 66 | 50% | 2 |

## And against it

- "Stronger, but can get expensive depending on traffic and features." (GPT-5.4 mini, Bot management)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Fastly Bot Management, from 4 of the 6 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- cequence.ai: 3
- cloudflare.com: 2
- fastly.com: 2 (its own site)
- humansecurity.com: 2
- peerspot.com: 2
- radware.com: 2
- alessioligabue.it: 1
- comparitech.com: 1
- forrester.com: 1
- g2.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://cequence.ai/learn/best-bot-management-solutions-for-large-enterprises: 3
- https://cequence.ai/learn/choosing-bot-management-vendors-top-8-compared: 2
- https://cloudflare.com/en-gb/application-services/products/bot-management: 2
- https://fastly.com/blog/best-bot-management-solutions-2025-2026: 2
- https://peerspot.com/categories/bot-management: 2
- http://ioriver.io/blog/best-bot-management-tools: 1
- https://alessioligabue.it/en/blog/ecommerce-bot-management: 1
- https://cequence.ai/learn/what-is-bot-management: 1

## In its own words

What Fastly Bot Management's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: provides you with visibility into bot traffic, allowing you to identify bots and respond to automated traffic with the nuance your business and security posture requires (https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management)
- For: businesses and security teams protecting web assets and applications (https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management)
- Price stated: Fastly charges for Bot Management based on the volume of requests (per millions) processed per month. (https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management)
- Free plan or trial: Try Fastly free (https://www.fastly.com/products/fastly-ai-bot-management)
- Customers named: USA TODAY Co.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.