F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud comparisons
F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud is compared head-to-head with Cloudflare WAF, AWS WAF and Wallarm WAAP and more: 7 head-to-heads in Web Application Firewall Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud head-to-head
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs Cloudflare WAF
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs AWS WAF
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs Wallarm WAAP
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs Akamai App & API Protector
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs open-appsec
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs Google Cloud Armor
- F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs Azure Web Application Firewall
F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment model | Managed rule sets | API protection | Bot management | Rate limiting | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud | No | Hybrid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.6 | |
| 1 | Cloudflare WAF | Yes | $20/mo | Edge | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 9.4 |
| 2 | AWS WAF | No | $1/unit/mo | Hybrid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.2 |
| 3 | Wallarm WAAP | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.1 | |
| 4 | Akamai App & API Protector | Edge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.0 | ||
| 5 | open-appsec | Free | Hybrid | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.9 | ||
| 6 | Google Cloud Armor | No | Edge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 7 | Azure Web Application Firewall | No | $5/mo | Edge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.7 |
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