Cloudflare vs. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Cloudflare

524 Reviews and Ratings

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

136 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudflare	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Cloudflare’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 WAF (Web Application Firewall)	Score9 out of 10	N/A	F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.	N/A

Pricing

Cloudflare

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Pro: $20
per month
Business: $200
per month
Free: Free
Enterprise: Contact sales team

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Pricing Offerings
Cloudflare	F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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	Cloudflare	F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Considered Both Products	Cloudflare No answer on this topic	F5 Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) When comparing F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly, Fastly generally stands out for its raw speed and focus on developer-friendly features, while Cloudflare is often considered the best balance of speed, security, and ease of use, making it a popular choice … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Basically, Cloudflare is a more economical solution at the level of DNS balancing, easy to use with a few simple clicks and that has gained an advantage in the market, however, compared to F5, it falls short of the entire protection panorama that the solution provides since F5 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) stacks up pretty well against the competition as far as feature set is concerned and offers various tiers that make it available for limited budget projects also while offering GDPR compliance with minimum effort. Cloudflare … Incentivized Helpful? Julie Pierce SOC Engineer in Information Technology at Quantum Flairs (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) We considered Cloudflare in the first place because it came with strong appeal upfront, it's easy to deploy especially for small web apps. We even ran a few pilot tests with it during client rollouts but settled on F5 Distributed Cloud WAF instead. Main reason being its … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) F5 Distributed Cloud WAF allowed us to protect internal applications without public exposure, edge routing, or cloud dependency. We gained robust protection without exposing internal systems to the internet and F5 gave us the flexibility, security, and control we needed for a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Better WAF protection Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Better support for onprem workloads Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Easier to configure Incentivized Helpful? AUNG THU HTET Pre-Sales Engineer in Information Technology at VSTECS (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) It that local Distributor taking care the service and support such as deliver Training, sharing knowledge and introduce the new technology. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) The comprehensive security feature that offers wide range of security features in a single platform like threat detection, bot prevention, granular security policies etc. it also has an extensive automation framework that seemlessly integrates with other components that are … Incentivized Helpful? Anil Nair Senior Manager in Information Technology at FWD (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) We chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) due to competitive pricing, value for money features as well as good after-sales support. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Cloudflare	F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (173 ratings)	8.9 (71 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (8 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (141 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.6 (2 ratings)	- (0 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)