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Who runs F5, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest application delivery alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Trackers
Prices
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Closest alternative
HAProxy Technologies

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01 · 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.

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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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    HAProxy Technologies haproxy.com English 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare HAProxy Technologies with F5 →
  2. 02
    Traefik traefik.io English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Traefik with F5 →
  3. 03
    HAProxy haproxy.org 2 trackers

    HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

    Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

    Compare HAProxy with F5 →
  4. 04
    Envoy proxy envoyproxy.io English 1 tracker

    Envoy proxy - home

    service proxy

    Compare Envoy proxy with F5 →
  5. 05
    Radware radware.com 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Radware with F5 →
  6. 06
    Citrix citrix.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Citrix with F5 →
  7. 07
    Imperva imperva.com English 3 trackers

    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.

    Compare Imperva with F5 →
  8. 08
    Tyk tyk.io English No trackers

    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

    Compare Tyk with F5 →
  9. 09
    konghq.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    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.

    Compare konghq.com with F5 →
  10. 10
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare DigitalOcean with F5 →
  11. 11
    Gravitee gravitee.io English 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare Gravitee with F5 →
  12. 12
    nginx nginx.org Top 100 No trackers

    nginx

    open source web server and a reverse proxy server

    Compare nginx with F5 →
  13. 13
    Railway railway.app Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Railway with F5 →
  14. 14
    Mirantis mirantis.com English 1 tracker

    Build AI Infrastructure Your Way, Anywhere | Mirantis

    The simple and frictionless way to manage AI workload clusters across clouds, on-prem, hybrid and edge

    Compare Mirantis with F5 →
  15. 15
    Vercel vercel.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel

    The autonomous stack for every app and agent.

    Compare Vercel with F5 →
  16. 16
    ChromeOS chromeos.google German 1 tracker

    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?

    Compare ChromeOS with F5 →
  17. 17
    Grafana grafana.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Grafana with F5 →
  18. 18
    Cloudflare cloudflare.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

    Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications

    Compare Cloudflare with F5 →
  19. 19
    Egnyte egnyte.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    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.

    Compare Egnyte with F5 →
  20. 20
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitLab with F5 →

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

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.

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Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
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Vector
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Query
31 ms

Competitor map

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