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F5

Who runs F5, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest application security (WAAP) alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Radware

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs F5

F5 ves.io

F5 Distributed Cloud deliver security, WAAP, API protection, and multicloud networking across cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, and edge. Learn more today.

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 18 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
    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 →
  2. 02
    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 →
  3. 03
    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 →
  4. 04
    Fastly fastly.com English 1 tracker

    Powering the best of the internet | Fastly

    Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.

    Compare Fastly with F5 →
  5. 05
    Akamai Technologies akamai.com Top 10K

    American content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service company

    Compare Akamai Technologies with F5 →
  6. 06
    Gcore gcore.com English 2 trackers

    Gcore | Cloud, Edge, Security, and AI. Unified to the core.

    Launch faster, stay protected, and scale on your terms with Gcore. Run cloud, edge, security, and AI on EU-owned infrastructure built for real traffic.

    Compare Gcore with F5 →
  7. 07
    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 →
  8. 08
    Netskope netskope.com English 2 trackers

    Netskope: modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era

    Secure and accelerate your cloud, data, and AI everywhere. Achieve unified visibility, advanced SASE & SSE protection, and optimized performance

    Compare Netskope with F5 →
  9. 09
    StormWall stormwall.pro Russian 1 tracker

    StormWall | Защита от DDoS-атак всех видов и уровней

    Сервис защиты организаций от DDoS-атак на L3-L7 любой мощности. Попробуйте бесплатный пилот от российского провайдера | 13 лет опыта в anti-DDoS | Поддержка 24/7

    Compare StormWall with F5 →
  10. 10
    Zscaler zscaler.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Leading Cloud Enterprise Security Provider for Zero Trust

    Zscaler is a leading cloud enterprise security provider helping global businesses adopt zero trust for secure digital transformation.

    Compare Zscaler with F5 →
  11. 11
    Vercel vercel.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel

    The autonomous stack for every app and agent.

    Compare Vercel with F5 →
  12. 12
    Linode linode.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai

    Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.

    Compare Linode with F5 →
  13. 13
    Atomile atomile.com Top 10K Chinese No trackers

    Atomile CDN Provider

    Deliver high-performance static and dynamic content through a global edge network and intelligent acceleration.

    Compare Atomile with F5 →
  14. 14
    Sucuri sucuri.net English 4 trackers

    Sucuri - Complete Website Security, Protection & Monitoring

    Website security made simple—Sucuri offers fast malware cleanup, reliable monitoring, and powerful protection for any CMS.

    Compare Sucuri with F5 →
  15. 15
    NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English No trackers

    NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet

    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

    Compare NextDNS with F5 →
  16. 16
    Forcepoint forcepoint.com English 3 trackers

    Forcepoint: AI Data Security | Secure Agents, Stop Shadow AI

    AI moves fast. Forcepoint moves first. Monitor, enforce and secure data for shadow AI, agents and sanctioned AI with Forcepoint AI Data Security.

    Compare Forcepoint with F5 →
  17. 17
    Wiz wiz.io English 1 tracker

    Wiz: AI Cybersecurity for All Your Cloud and AI Applications

    Wiz connects code, cloud, and runtime into one agentic cybersecurity platform. Prevent risk, detect threats, and start secure – across every cloud and AI layer.

    Compare Wiz with F5 →
  18. 18
    CrowdStrike crowdstrike.com Top 10K

    American cybersecurity technology company

    Compare CrowdStrike with F5 →
  19. 19
    OVHcloud ovhcloud.com Top 10K English No trackers

    OVHcloud

    OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

    Compare OVHcloud with F5 →
  20. 20
    Druva druva.com English 2 trackers

    Druva Resilience Cloud | Fully Managed SaaS Platform | Druva

    Druva’s AI-powered, cloud-native SaaS platform delivers data security, identity resilience, backup protection, and fast ransomware recovery. Try it today!

    Compare Druva 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.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
58 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

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