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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 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 API Security

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AF5's Distributed Cloud API Security provides discovery and deep insights from use of AI/ML. It can be used to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. The SaaS-based portal enables users to manage and go deep for threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting of modern applications.N/A
    Pricing
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    No answer on this topic
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    36 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    Features
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Cloudflare and F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Security
    Comparison of API Security features of Cloudflare and F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    8.4
    34 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Data Protection00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
    Audit Logging00 Ratings8.329 Ratings
    Input Validation00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Content Filtering00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Denial of Service (DoS) Protection00 Ratings8.831 Ratings
    Security Notification and Alerts00 Ratings8.830 Ratings
    API Key Management00 Ratings8.328 Ratings
    Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection00 Ratings8.926 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    8.9
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (39 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (27 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudflareF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    I believe it covers everything related to the applications' security aspects, but there are a lot of improvements that need to be made. For example, better granular controls like bot categories listed on the distributed console and a granular URL-based control for the rate-limiting option are needed.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    F5
    • It auto-discovers APIs, even the ones engineers forget to document. Then profiles them without needing changes to our codebase.
    • Shadow API exposure.
    • It's pretty decent at abnormal behavior detection.
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    F5
    • More accurate detection of advanced persistent threats (APTs) targeting APIs.
    • A greater emphasis on checking APIs' schema and contract may prevent them from accepting misconfigurations or malicious input.
    • More customized, dynamic, and targeted protection for high-value APIs or high-risk user groups.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security provides robust API protection with solid threat detection, excellent visibility, and seamless integration into our architecture
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    F5
    Great product. Working with F5 for many years, we found the products F5 provided are all cutting edge technology. Although in F5 Distributed Cloud API Security we still have a lot to find out, but we believe this experience will be very good. Especially on the security side. Trust in F5.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    F5
    Always available
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    F5
    The UI is cloud-native and generally responsive. Report generation is easy Integrates with cloud providers
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    F5
    Lo hacemos mediante un partner We did it through a partner
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security is our company looking forward product. With more and more API is using in both on prem, private cloud, public cloud and multi cloud environment, we as a financial institution, we are keep into the security settings to protect the information. That's the main reason we want to use this product.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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    F5
    We ran a short POC with Salt. Its data classification and attack replay features were impressive. What held us back was the limited support for hybrid deployments and poor integration into our CI/CD pipelines, as F5 did.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    F5
    Centralized policy management: You can manage API security policies consistently across locations without duplicating effort, which supports scaling.


    API discovery and monitoring at scale: It automatically discovers APIs and monitors them in real time across large and complex environments.
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    F5
    • F5 Distributed Cloud API Security mitigates many API-related security threats, including bot attacks, DDoS, data breaches, and unauthorized access attempts.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud API Security uses robust threat detection, machine learning, and real-time monitoring for speedier identification.
    • Reductions in security events result in fewer breaches, reduced downtime, and lower attack remediation costs.
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