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F5
Who runs F5, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest application delivery alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- HAProxy Technologies
Measured from F5’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit F501 · Who’s behind it
Who runs F5
F5 nginx.com
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What F5 tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 15 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- TrustArc
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on F5’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to F5
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to F5, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
HAProxy Technologies | Powering the World's Busiest Applications
Simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment. HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy.
Very close - 02
Unified Control Plane for APIs, Models, and Agents | Traefik Labs
Eliminate fragmentation and unify governance for any workload, anywhere. Traefik is sovereign-by-design, infra-as-code, composable, and memory safe.
Very close - 03
HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Very close - 04
Envoy proxy - home
service proxy
Close - 05
DDoS Services: Cloud Security Products and Solutions | Radware
Continuously adaptive real-time DDoS services for the most sophisticated web security threats through best-in-class cloud WAF and DDoS protection technologies.
Very close - 06
Explore the Enhanced Citrix Platform: Secure, Scalable, and High-Performing IT Solutions - Citrix
Discover the new Citrix platform, revolutionizing application delivery with enhanced security, Zero Trust frameworks, and unmatched performance. Dive into industry-specific solutions for healthcare, financial services, and government. Uncover new use cases with Citrix and NetScaler, from centralized app management to mission-critical application delivery.
Close - 07
Cyber Security Leader | Imperva, Inc.
Imperva provides complete cyber security by protecting what really matters most—your data and applications—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Very close - 08
API Management Platform & API Gateway | Tyk.io
Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard
Very close - 09
Kong, The AI Connectivity Company | Kong Inc.
From APIs to AI, Kong is the fabric of modern connectivity. Centralize LLM access, automate API workflows, and secure your digital ecosystem at scale.
Close - 10
AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean
Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.
Very close - 11
Gravitee | The AI Agent Management Platform
Gravitee is the AI Agent Management platform, securing, observing, and governing every AI agent, API, and event interaction at enterprise scale.
Very close - 12
nginx
open source web server and a reverse proxy server
Very close - 13
Railway | The all-in-one intelligent cloud provider
Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.
Very close - 14
Build AI Infrastructure Your Way, Anywhere | Mirantis
The simple and frictionless way to manage AI workload clusters across clouds, on-prem, hybrid and edge
Very close - 15
Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
Very close - 16
ChromeOS – das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem für Ihr Unternehmen
Kennen Sie schon ChromeOS, das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem, mit dem Sie Ihr Unternehmen voranbringen und die Erwartungen Ihrer Mitarbeitenden an moderne Arbeitsumgebungen erfüllen können?
Very close - 17
Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs
Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud, the AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data.
Very close - 18
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Very close - 19
Egnyte: AI Context Layer & Content Cloud for Enterprises
23,000+ businesses use Egnyte to give AI the business context it needs, collaborate on massive files, and govern sensitive content on one secure platform.
Very close - 20
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles F5’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones F5 uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what F5 adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to F5’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Sanity page source: cdn.sanity.io/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Cookie consent
- TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::iad1::4tk7j-1793956259598-59c308cddec6
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms49391549
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Iv/Cm1UielF25k9FOYOH+QWS9iqMJUFKzUNVB9R…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=ec7fb56d-ee75-4979-b3e5-10bfbff0ab9e
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=gl56nwvh4szl
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JrwNJWq0sLGx6H5Voxu-bQyH6-Fj6ifMzyNzIppraFc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on nginx.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on nginx.com 10/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on nginx.com 8/20
- Salesforce · not on nginx.com 8/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on nginx.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on nginx.com 6/20
- React 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on nginx.com 6/20
- Zoom · not on nginx.com 6/20
- Miro · not on nginx.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on nginx.com 6/20
- Next.js 5/20