Haltdos vs Wallarm API Security

Haltdos provides security and delivery solutions for web applications and APIs across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its Enterprise WAF protects websites and APIs against OWASP Top 10 attacks, known vulnerabilities, and zero-day vulnerabilities. It includes more than 4,000 signatures, machine-learning-based zero-day protection, file-upload antivirus scanning and sandboxing, and DDoS protection from Layer 3 to Layer 7. An API gateway provides authentication, rate limiting, transformation, and observability. Bot controls include detection and mitigation, device fingerprinting, mobile SDK protection, JavaScript and CAPTCHA challenges, and deception technology. Enterprise WAF also lists incident logging, analytics and dashboards, SIEM integration, and PCI compliance reporting. Deployment options include SaaS, virtual, hardware, and MSSP, with on-premise and public- or private-cloud deployment. Community WAF runs on a VM, Docker, or hardware and requires at least 2 GB RAM, 60 GB disk space, and 2 vCPU cores. Community WAF is free for one website and one security profile. Professional WAF costs $30 a month, billed at the end of each monthly billing period based on requests processed; the first 100K requests are free.

Wallarm API Security discovers APIs and protects them in real time against attacks, abuse, and account takeover. It covers REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSocket APIs without requiring an API specification, and can identify shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs. The product can generate OpenAPI specifications from live traffic and block attacks such as injection, BOLA, broken authentication, and zero-day exploits. Behavior analysis detects credential stuffing, account takeover, malicious bots, and L7 DDoS. It can surface APIs handling personal, payment, credential, or health data and map that information to compliance scope. API Leak Management scans public sources for keys, tokens, and credentials associated with customer domains. Deployment options include managed Security Edge and self-hosted Kubernetes, cloud VM, and API gateway connector setups. The Security Edge Free Tier allows 500,000 requests per month for three users per company and excludes vulnerability assessment and API Abuse Prevention. Once the monthly quota is exceeded, console access and integrations are disabled. Paid core plans require contacting sales for pricing; listed paid plans include six months of event storage.