Shape Security

Name: Shape Security
Brand: Shape Security
Rating: 4.4 (91 reviews)

Now part of F5, Shape Security protects web & mobile apps of top companies against bots, fraud, and unwanted automation.

Est 2011|Valuation $1B|Raised $183M|7 Ref Customers

LinkedIn 13K|Web traffic 1K|FTEs 370|HQ Santa Clara, CA

	Shape Security (via F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense)	DataDome	Cloudflare Bot Management
Starting Price	Not consistently public; reseller SKUs show listings in the low-to-mid thousands per month for certain transaction bands.	Published starting prices in the thousands per month for entry plans.	Often bundled into Cloudflare offerings; Enterprise-grade bot management is enabled via account teams rather than a single public listing.
Best For	Large enterprises with high ATO/bot abuse risk and complex fraud patterns; organizations already invested in the F5 ecosystem.	Teams wanting published starting prices and packaged plans, including bot + account protection options.	Organizations already on Cloudflare edge/CDN wanting integrated security controls; scalable edge mitigation.
Key Strength	Behavioral/telemetry-driven bot and fraud-abuse focus; integration with F5 ecosystem.	Public pricing transparency; packaged offerings; positioning around cyber fraud protection.	Broad edge platform with integrated security/performance controls; flexible rules and platform ecosystem.
Key Weakness	Pricing opacity; integration complexity; risk of latency/false positives if not tuned.	May be less attractive for buyers that need very large enterprise scale or specific algorithmic transparency.	Enterprise Bot Management availability/pricing is account-team driven; feature sets vary by plan and add-ons.

	Shape Security (via F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense)	DataDome	Cloudflare Bot Management
Starting Price	Not consistently public; reseller SKUs show listings in the low-to-mid thousands per month for certain transaction bands.	Published starting prices in the thousands per month for entry plans.	Often bundled into Cloudflare offerings; Enterprise-grade bot management is enabled via account teams rather than a single public listing.
Best For	Large enterprises with high ATO/bot abuse risk and complex fraud patterns; organizations already invested in the F5 ecosystem.	Teams wanting published starting prices and packaged plans, including bot + account protection options.	Organizations already on Cloudflare edge/CDN wanting integrated security controls; scalable edge mitigation.
Key Strength	Behavioral/telemetry-driven bot and fraud-abuse focus; integration with F5 ecosystem.	Public pricing transparency; packaged offerings; positioning around cyber fraud protection.	Broad edge platform with integrated security/performance controls; flexible rules and platform ecosystem.
Key Weakness	Pricing opacity; integration complexity; risk of latency/false positives if not tuned.	May be less attractive for buyers that need very large enterprise scale or specific algorithmic transparency.	Enterprise Bot Management availability/pricing is account-team driven; feature sets vary by plan and add-ons.

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