CHEQ Defend vs Fastly API Security: side-by-side comparison (2026)
CHEQ Defend is a commercial bot management & CAPTCHA solution by CHEQ. Fastly API Security is a commercial API security solution by Fastly. Features, integrations, deployment and the company behind each one, side by side.
Our take
What our shortlists say about the one we picked.
- Fastly API Security
Best for: Fastly customers protecting APIs on the edge
It is on the list because discovery and blocking happen on the Fastly edge where your API traffic already flows, and it sends alerts to Slack, Jira, PagerDuty and Datadog. If your APIs are not behind Fastly, or most of your risk sits in internal and partner APIs, its edge view will see less of it, so weigh that first.
From Best API Security Solutions for Business, Fall 2026
Reviewed by Nika (Nikoloz) Kokhreidze.
Bot mitigation & fraud prevention platform for websites and APIs
API security platform for discovery, monitoring, and protection at edge
Side-by-side comparison
Feature
CHEQ Defend
Fastly API Security
Pricing model
Commercial
Commercial
Category
Bot Management & CAPTCHA
API Security
Deployment and fit
Deployment type
Cloud
Cloud
Company size fit
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Company
Company
CHEQ
Fastly
Use cases and capabilities
Bot Protection
Yes
Yes
Web Security
Yes
No
Attack Detection
No
Yes
WAF
No
Yes
Core features
10 features listed
10 features listed
Integrations
No integrations listed
9 integrations listed
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