Fastly Next-Gen WAF vs. NGINX Plus
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Fastly Next-Gen WAF | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | Fastly Secure (based on Signal Sciences, acquired December 2020), offers a WAF and RASP solution that protects over 34,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ architecture is designed to provide organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. Additionally, Signal Sciences integrated BotSense service prevents bad bots from performing malicious actions against their… | N/A |
NGINX Plus | Score8.6 out of 10 | N/A | NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5. | $849 per month billed annually |
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Would buy again 6 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 6 Answers | |
| Happy with the feature set | ||
No answers on this topic | 83% Happy with the feature set 5 Answers | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
No answers on this topic | 80% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 4 Answers | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Implementation went as expected 5 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | NGINX Score9.1 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | ![]() F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.4 out of 10 | Oracle WebLogic Server Score7.3 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | ![]() F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.4 out of 10 | NGINX Score9.1 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 8.3 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.1 |
| Usability | - | 7.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 9.1 |
| Online Training | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 9.1 |
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