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Cloudflare vs. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudflare

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (formerly Shape Defense, acquired January 2020) provides security to protect a website from bots, fake users, and unauthorized transactions, preventing large scale fraud and eroded user experiences. Companies get visibility, detection and mitigation outcomes to reduce fraud and cloud hosting, bandwidth and compute costs, improve user experiences, and optimize their business based on real human traffic.N/A
    Pricing
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare's product offering is more mature and has demonstrated success in preventing some of the largest DDoS attacks observed. Cloudflare also continues to reinvest in their core product offering to ensure they maintain a position as leader in the cybersecurity space.
    Incentivized
    F5
    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    We had already been using Cloudflare as our CDN, so it was a natural first choice. We however passed because it didn't offer deep behavior analytics. We ran simulations with scripted bots mimicking human cursor movements and variable delays. It missed about 30% of them. That …
    Incentivized
    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Clodflare bot management was our other obvious option for us. We tested it on a staging version of our RFQ platform. It was great for broad traffic filtering but had a hard time with nuanced differences between real subcontractors and low volume bots mimickingt human input …
    Incentivized
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    User Ratings
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (173 ratings)
    8.7
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (141 ratings)
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)