Akamai Page Integrity Manager alternative: an honest comparison
Page Integrity Manager is Akamai's client-side script monitoring product, now sold as Client-Side Protection & Compliance. If you are already an Akamai customer, it is the path of least resistance and that counts for a lot.
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Akamai Page Integrity Manager
Usage-based, unpublished
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Script Monitoring
From $99/month
TL;DR
Akamai Page Integrity Manager vs Script Monitoring
WHAT THEY DO WELL
If Akamai already fronts your traffic, this is one contract, one vendor review and one support relationship. That is a genuine and frequently decisive advantage.
WHERE TO CHECK CAREFULLY
It is an Akamai product. Adopting it generally means being an Akamai customer, so it is not a practical option if you are not, or if you are multi-CDN and want one consistent view.
PRICING
Akamai's standard pricing is usage-based and not published. Ours is published, from $99/month, with a free plan.
Short on time? Scroll to which one to choose if you want the short answer.
Is Script Monitoring a good Akamai Page Integrity Manager alternative?
Yes, if your primary driver is PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 evidence and you want published pricing and a free plan to evaluate on. You are already an Akamai customer, the commercial terms are favourable inside your existing agreement, and consolidating vendors matters more than module depth. The rest of this page sets out where each product is genuinely stronger, with a capability table, so you can make the call on your own constraints rather than on ours.
Where Akamai Page Integrity Manager is strong
Taking this seriously, because a comparison where the other product has no advantages is not a comparison. These are real and they may well be decisive for you.
If Akamai already fronts your traffic, this is one contract, one vendor review and one support relationship. That is a genuine and frequently decisive advantage.
Akamai's threat intelligence across an enormous traffic footprint is real and hard to replicate.
Enterprise-grade support, compliance posture and procurement maturity.
Behavioural detection of script activity, integrated with the rest of the Akamai security portfolio.
Where Akamai Page Integrity Manager has limits
Equally honestly, and stated as things to verify rather than as accusations.
It is an Akamai product. Adopting it generally means being an Akamai customer, so it is not a practical option if you are not, or if you are multi-CDN and want one consistent view.
Pricing is bundled into enterprise agreements, which makes the marginal cost of the module genuinely hard to establish and hard to compare.
The client-side module is one product in a very large portfolio, so the depth of the PCI evidence workflow is worth verifying against your assessor's expectations.
Standard pricing is usage-based and not published. Akamai announced a free self-service tier in 2021 for qualified customers, up to 1 million analyzed script executions a month, but its current product page does not mention it, so confirm it is still offered.
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Capability comparison
Capability
Akamai Page Integrity Manager
Script Monitoring
Payment-page script inventory for 6.4.3
Yes
Yes
Header change detection for 11.6.1
Yes
Yes
Works with any CDN or stack
No, Akamai only
Yes
Published pricing
No, bundled into enterprise agreements
Yes, from $99/month
Free plan covering both PCI requirements
No
Yes, 1,000 page views a month
Detection technique
In-page behaviour and CVE checks
In-page, plus server-side hashing
Session coverage
Real sessions, sampling not stated
100% of sessions, no sampling
Server-side payload analysis
No, script sources only
Yes, every payload inspected
Time to first inventory
Enterprise procurement cycle
Minutes
Akamai Page Integrity Manager pricing, and ours
Akamai Page Integrity Manager does not publish pricing. Standard pricing for Client-Side Protection & Compliance is usage-based and agreed with Akamai. A free self-service tier for qualified customers, up to 1 million analyzed script executions a month, was announced in 2021; confirm with Akamai whether it is still available.
We publish ours: free for 1,000 page views a month, Pro from $99/month for 100,000 payment-page views, $499/month at 500,000 and $799/month at 1,000,000, overage at $0.0013 per page view, annual billing at 10 months instead of 12, and Enterprise on request.
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Akamai Page Integrity Manager
Usage-based, not published
Script Monitoring
Free
1,000 page views a month
Pro, 100,000 payment-page views
$99/month
500,000 page views
$499/month
1,000,000 page views
$799/month
Overage
$0.0013 per page view
Annual billing
10 months instead of 12
Enterprise
On request
Which one to choose
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Choose Akamai Page Integrity Manager if
You are already an Akamai customer, the commercial terms are favourable inside your existing agreement, and consolidating vendors matters more than module depth. The catch is that it generally means being an Akamai customer, and pricing sits inside enterprise agreements rather than on a page.
Choose Script Monitoring if
You are not on Akamai, you are multi-CDN, or you want a published price and a free plan instead of a procurement cycle. It works on any CDN and has a first inventory running in minutes, with unlimited domains on every plan and full integrations on every paid plan.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes, for teams whose primary driver is PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 evidence, who want published pricing, and who want to evaluate on a free plan rather than through a sales cycle. You are already an Akamai customer, the commercial terms are favourable inside your existing agreement, and consolidating vendors matters more than module depth.
No. Standard pricing for Client-Side Protection & Compliance, the product's current name, is usage-based and not published. Akamai announced a free tier for qualified customers in 2021, up to 1 million analyzed script executions a month, so check whether it is still offered. Our pricing is published: free for 1,000 page views a month, Pro from $99/month, overage at $0.0013 per page view.
Yes, and for some combinations it is sensible. Running two client-side tools on the same payment page adds weight, so it is worth being deliberate about which one is the system of record for your PCI evidence and which is doing something else.
Yes, and it is worth asking every vendor in this category the same question. Our tag is integrity-checked on load: if what arrives in the browser is not the script we published, it does not run. A client-side monitor that an attacker can silently modify is worse than no monitor, because it keeps reporting all-clear while the page is compromised. Not every agent in this category does this, so put it to Akamai Page Integrity Manager as well.
Yes, this is the right thing to worry about, and the answer is that it should not. Installation is one first-party tag with no DNS or CDN change, and the tag is fail-open, so if our service is unavailable your page still renders. Most teams run monitor-only mode alongside their existing tool for a few weeks before switching the system of record.
Usually days rather than weeks. The tag goes in, you mark your payment pages with selector rules, and the inventory populates from live traffic immediately. The slower part is re-recording business justifications, and if you already wrote them for 6.4.3 they transfer directly.
Akamai sells it as Client-Side Protection & Compliance, with usage-based pricing it does not publish, so any comparison starts with a quote. Among tools that publish prices for PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1: Script Monitoring is free for 1,000 payment-page views a month and $99/month (or $990 a year) for 100,000, with unlimited domains; cside is free for 2,000 payment-page views a month and $99/month for 100,000; DomDog is $999 a year for 100,000 page views on one domain and two payment pages; Source Defense Essentials is $98/month for 100,000 page views on one domain; Report URI's PCI features start on its $164.99/month plan; and if your traffic is already on Cloudflare, Client-Side Security Advanced is $0.099 per 1,000 requests. Which is cheapest depends on your page views and how many domains you need.
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Install the tag, mark your payment pages, and see what the inventory finds. Free forever on 1,000 page views a month, no credit card.
Free forever plan. No credit card.