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F5 Advanced WAF vs Fastly comparison

F5 and Fastly are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. F5 is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6, while Fastly is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.5. F5 holds a 12.0% mindshare in WAF, compared to Fastly’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fastly users who would recommend it.
F5 Advanced WAF
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98% willing to recommend
Fastly
Read 7 Fastly reviews
  • 1,162 Views
  • 1,029 Comparison Views
100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

F5 Advanced WAF
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fastly
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
18th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
CDN (6th), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of F5 Advanced WAF is 12.0%, up from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fastly is 1.5%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

YUSUF TAIWO - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 26, 2023
Ensures a robust and unified security approach for our clients
My clients often seek a comprehensive security solution for their hybrid environments, with both cloud and on-premise web applications. To address this, I recommend combining F5 Advanced WAF for web application security with Fortinet solutions, including FortiGate, FortiSign, and FortiAnalyzer, for…
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Nick Wilsdon - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 29, 2023
An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support
I use the product mostly for its Compute@Edge capabilities. Fastly is a content delivery network with various functions inside CDN. It has a functionality around security. It also has a content delivery functionality, which is a more standard function within CDN. If you are accessing a website…
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I appreciate the way F5 Advanced WAF builds policies by configuring a basic policy and queuing it in learning mode."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the overall capabilities, there is not a comparable solution on the market."
"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"The solution's most valuable features include application DDoS protection, bot blocking, and HTTP header verifications."
"There are a lot of good features."
"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
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"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
 

Cons

"Its price should be better. It is expensive."
"They could provide better pricing."
"The BNS module needs improvement."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards."
"This solution can be made more user-friendly."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
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"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"Support is not that great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for this solution is higher than average."
"The cost is slightly above average."
"F5 Advanced WAF technical support comes at a cost, and it's expensive."
"I don't have any issue with the pricing of this solution."
"I would rate the pricing as seven out of ten"
"The pricing for F5 Advanced WAF is comparable to a Rolls-Royce. Its price is a bit high when you compare it with other vendors. F5 Advanced WAF is a bit expensive. The customer was on a three-year plan and it was around $560,000."
"There are different licenses available to use F5 Advanced WAF, such as BT, ASM, and LPM."
"F5 bundles up services and the bundle is what you pay for rather than individual components."
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"You need to pay a premium price for the tool."
"The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
"The pricing has been very competitive."
"I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
"It is an expensive solution."
"In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F5 Advanced WAF?
It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Advanced WAF?
I don't have direct knowledge of the pricing. From what I know, it is not too expensive compared to other solutions.
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What needs improvement with F5 Advanced WAF?
The product could be more user-friendly for administrators. The user interface could be easier.
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What do you like most about Fastly?
Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fastly?
You need to pay a premium price for the tool.
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What needs improvement with Fastly?
What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price. The pricing is different per region. If you have a customer who is international and has deployments in different regions, it is ve...
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Overview

F5 Advanced WAF is a web application security solution for financial and government sectors, e-commerce, and public-facing websites. It offers protection against various attacks, including botnets, web scraping, and foreign entities. The solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud and is often used with other security tools. Its most valuable features include DDoS and DNS attack protection, SSL uploading, anomaly detection, and the ability to input custom rules. 

F5 Advanced WAF has helped organizations to expose more services to the public while providing an extra layer of protection, preventing revenue loss, and securing connectivity.

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.
 

Sample Customers

MAXIMUS, Vivo, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office, City Bank
Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase
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