F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs Sucuri comparison

F5 and Sucuri Security are both solutions in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category. F5 is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.3, while Sucuri Security is ranked #26. F5 holds a 1.4% mindshare in DDOS, compared to Sucuri Security’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sucuri Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Sucuri and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager compete in web application security. Sucuri is favored for its pricing and customer support, while F5 BIG-IP AFM stands out for its advanced features, preferred by enterprises needing comprehensive security.

Features: Sucuri offers malware detection, DDoS protection, and a cloud-based firewall. F5 BIG-IP AFM features advanced threat intelligence, deep packet inspection, and traffic management.

Room for Improvement: Sucuri could enhance its feature set for more advanced needs, improve integration capabilities, and expand reporting functions. F5 BIG-IP AFM might focus on simplifying deployment, reducing initial setup complexity, and improving user interface intuitiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sucuri's cloud-based model provides quick deployment and responsive support. F5 BIG-IP AFM requires more setup time with its on-premise or hybrid environments but offers strong enterprise-level support.

Pricing and ROI: Sucuri provides cost-effective solutions with good ROI for small to medium businesses. F5 BIG-IP AFM justifies higher costs through extensive security features and scalability, ideal for organizations with larger budgets.

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Cloudflare

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of Cloudflare is 14.0%, down from 19.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is 1.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sucuri is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cloudflare	14.0%
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)	1.4%
Sucuri	1.8%
Other	82.8%

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Featured Reviews

M.A. Faisal

General Manager at bKash Limited

Advanced protection has secured critical web workloads and provides clear traffic visibility

From a security perspective, there remains a security loophole, as some browsers in the market can bypass the Turnstile solution, which requires approximately 40 seconds to do so. From a performance perspective, this is acceptable. We also tried Google reCAPTCHA, and that can also be bypassed. From a security perspective, I would say neither solution is completely secured. Regarding uptime, we have faced a couple of incidents due to Cloudflare in recent years, so I cannot say we receive 100% uptime for our region. We sometimes face challenges, including downtime and other issues. As a result, we are not receiving 100% uptime from Cloudflare's solution. Since most of our customers are in this region, we need alternatives. We need something more competitive than Cloudflare. Unfortunately, in Bangladesh, Cloudflare has three points of presence already, and we cannot find any other solution provider in Bangladesh as an alternative, which presents another challenge. Competitor solutions have more attack signatures, which ensure better security compared to Cloudflare's predefined configurations. Customers do not have options to modify any configuration parameters in Cloudflare, whereas other competitor solutions, such as F5 Distributed Cloud, allow customers to tune configurations according to their requirements. Cloudflare could improve in this area. Additionally, regarding visibility, Cloudflare has static visibility, but they could adopt dynamic graph features for their customers.

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Nawapol Boonlerd

Information Security Engineer at BigFish Enterprise Ltd.

Comprehensive network protection has mitigated DDoS risks and supports secure on-prem operations

Currently, there are no weaknesses or disadvantages in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) that I have identified. It is a little bit expensive, and I think about additional features they could have in the future to make it even better. For example, I have thoughts about the price. Currently, it does not integrate, and I would assess the importance of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)'s integration with cloud services as significant. Currently, I use only one site, and I cannot tell you about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) centralized security policies. I have not used F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)'s Threat Intelligence capabilities. I have not used their dynamic traffic shaping feature. So far, the only thing that could be improved is the pricing of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM).

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Jagobandhu Some

Hardware Engineer at Ministry of Defense

A cost-effective choice for website security and informative support with issues related to CDN quality

One area where they could improve is in providing real-time support options because now you need to open a support ticket and wait for their response. It would greatly benefit customers if they implemented an online chat or messaging system for quicker assistance. I have found their Content Delivery Network service to be lacking in quality, and it could certainly be enhanced to provide better performance. I would also like to see improvements in the deployment process, as it currently takes more time than desirable. Another significant concern is that their service when your website is down, turns it into a static site. This means that if customers try to visit your site during downtime, they will see old content from the static site, which is not ideal. The CDN and tracking services are areas that need improvement, as well as addressing their bandwidth limitations.

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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

"It's a reasonably priced solution that meets customers' needs and it's not too difficult to deploy."

"Stability is great; I love their mechanisms, I love their GUI, I love their front end, I love their behind the scenes, algorithms and everything, it all makes sense."

"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."

"The API gives us the ability to remote control our DNS settings."

"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."

"Smaller businesses have seen great ROI due to the low investment and strong performance."

"The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security."

"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."

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"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."

"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."

"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."

"The solution provides behavioral analysis via AI to detect malicious traffic."

"The most valuable features for me are stability, availability, and security, along with the ability to manage multiple features to secure my applications."

"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."

"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."

"With controllers plus the firewall, you will only need one device to protect everything."

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"For people who own a personal website, this solution is worth trying out since their security solution is somewhat full-fledged."

"It significantly eases the workload and streamlines the initial setup required to protect a website."

"The most valuable part is the analytics and visualization."

"The initial setup was very easy."

"The initial setup was straightforward. Straight forward because the plugin can simply be installed and then it does its job. It's not complex, there is no learning curve. The online scan is simple, you put in the website address and the scan gives us a report on the browser itself. It's simple to use."

"I use it as a WAF, which is basically a web firewall to monitor and block traffic to our web server."

"Rather than locate some things manually, the Sucuri plugin scans and allows us to pinpoint whether there is malware or some problem in the site."

"Domain name scanning since it allows us to scan all our domain names and determine whether it has malware or if is reported as phishing."

Cons

"The one feature that is paid is the custom nameservers instead of using the default ones, I want to use a custom one."

"The integration of LLMs on the dashboard is something that is needed in the tool."

"The product needs to improve its automation."

"We had to do a lot of digging and back-and-forth with technical support for specific use cases, and it might be helpful to have more screencasts or screenshots for common situations."

"The pricing could be improved."

"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."

"Latencies are always a problem."

"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."

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"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."

"F5 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."

"The interface for applying the features could use improvement. There are too many buttons."

"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."

"F5 should increase its capability to prevent zero-day attacks."

"The product is expensive."

"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."

"F5 should increase its capability to prevent zero-day attacks. Having advanced technology similar to other vendors like Palo Alto for zero-day attack prevention would be valuable."

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"Sucuri could provide help for specific security alerts in-line instead of requiring users to search for it in the help section."

"In terms of improvement, the cost factor is always there."

"It would greatly benefit customers if they implemented an online chat or messaging system for quicker assistance."

"Confident score: Currently it does not have one and there are cases that most websites flagged are false-positives."

"The reason is that we have found sometimes customers or Google saying that there is something wrong with the website but Sucuri says that the site is clean so we do have to look at the site manually which means that the Sucuri scan does not pick up anything and everything."

"I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. The reason is that we have found sometimes customers or Google saying that there is something wrong with the website but Sucuri says that the site is clean so we do have to look at the site manually which means that the Sucuri scan does not pick up anything and everything."

"The main improvement I would like to see is support for .NET applications. If they could include this feature, I would include more sites in the protection."

"Confident score: Currently it does not have one and there are cases that most websites flagged are false-positives."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the free tier of the solution."

"The product's pricing is cheap."

"The pricing for the service is reasonable, neither excessively cheap nor prohibitively expensive. It aligns well with the value of their solution."

"The tool is a premium product, so it is very expensive."

"For Cloudflare, I recommend it heavily for small businesses with revenue under a couple of million dollars. Onboarding is easy, and they even have a free plan. This makes it simple for businesses in the $100,000-$500,000 range to try it out and see its value, allowing them to scale up their infrastructure as needed."

"The product's pricing is minimal compared to other products."

"Cloudflare's pricing is not much higher and is good for middle-level organizations."

"We are using the free version."

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"The solution is slightly on the higher priced side."

"It is somewhat on the expensive side although it is worth the additional cost."

"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution."

"F5 BIG-IP AFM is an affordable solution. There were not any additional fees other than the standard licensing."

"We have purchased a five-year licensing package for the product."

"The product is expensive."

"As per pricing, I would not say cheap, but little higher than cheap, but not very expensive. So you can say kind of value for money solutions."

"The price of F5 BIG-IP AFM is a little more expensive than other firewalls on the market."

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"The ROI has been very good. Because of the solution, I have a tax break. The site developers were not always experienced people. We used to pay more for cleaning up the site when it was infected. Now, we have peace of mind knowing that the solution will clean up the site and that we won't have to go through the unnecessary process of restoring it from a backup. The protection on the WAF and the measures for backups have also prevented our site from going down."

"Sucuri offers different plans, both the standard plan and an advanced plan. So there are different plans to choose from."

"I’d simply say it’s really worth it."

"It stands out as a more cost-effective option compared to other cloud-based security services like Cloudflare or JetPass."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Engineering Company

Comms Service Provider

Marketing Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	26

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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Also Known As

Cloudflare DNS

F5 AFM, F5 Advanced Firewall Manager

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Overview

Cloudflare enhances web performance and security with features like CDN caching and DDoS mitigation while providing easy DNS management and intuitive setup through its user-friendly dashboard.

Cloudflare is recognized for its comprehensive web security and performance solutions. Speed improvements are achieved through caching mechanisms and DDoS protection, combining ease of DNS management with flexible page rules. The robust analytics and threat insight tools provide valuable data, assisted by a user-friendly dashboard allowing quick setup and configuration. An API offers dynamic DNS settings ensuring low latency and high performance across the globe.

What are Cloudflare's key features?

CDN Caching: Enhances website speed through content delivery network caching.
Web Application Firewall: Protects websites from online threats.
DDoS Mitigation: Shields against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
DNS Management: Offers easy-to-use and flexible domain management.
SSL Certificates: Ensures secure connections between users and servers.
Analytics: Provides insights with robust analytics tools.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Enhanced Security: Strengthening web security with DDoS and firewall protection.
Speed Improvement: Faster content delivery with CDN caching.
Operational Simplicity: Simplifies website optimization through a user-friendly interface.
Scalable Solutions: Scales with global reach, lowering latency for improved performance.
Cost Efficiency: Offers layers of valuable functionality with pricing options.

Cloudflare finds utility across industries for DNS management and defense mechanisms. Its content delivery network assures fast content distribution and fortified security. Businesses integrate features like web application firewalls, load balancing, end-to-end SSL, and zero trust to protect websites from cyber threats while ensuring resilience and reliable performance.

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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager provides robust network protection with advanced DDoS features and efficient load balancing. Its design prioritizes scalability and ease of management, catering to securing data centers and applications.

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is a strategic choice for combating cyber threats, including DDoS attacks. With powerful network defenses, integrated WAF, and adaptable capabilities, it efficiently handles web services on-premise and in the cloud. Users value its application-level threat defense with IP blocking and AI-enhanced reporting. Advanced integration with SIEM solutions allows comprehensive monitoring and enhanced threat detection through dynamic resource allocation. However, areas for improvement include better dashboard statistics and pricing adjustments. Enhancing integration with BIG-IQ and intuitive configuration would streamline its operation. Automatic geolocation updates and improved support could address current challenges alongside its high cost and complex initial setup.

What are the standout features?

Integrated WAF: Enhances security by protecting applications from online threats.
DDoS Protection: Defends against large-scale DDoS attacks efficiently.
AI-Enhanced Reporting: Provides detailed insights through AI-driven analytics.
IP Blocking: Offers IP-based threat defense and geolocation capabilities.
Resource Allocation: Dynamically allocates resources for optimized performance.

What are the benefits and ROI to consider?

Ease of Management: Simplifies management processes with user-friendly features.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Through SIEM integration for better visibility.
Superior Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats proactively.
Scalability: Adapts to evolving network needs and traffic demands.

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is widely used in sectors requiring stringent security measures, such as finance and healthcare. These industries deploy it as a data center and web application firewall to protect against cyber threats, manage client connections, and ensure the security of on-premise and cloud applications.

Sucuri offers comprehensive website security solutions with features like malware detection, notification plugins, and simplified risk management via collaboration with website providers.

Sucuri specializes in website protection by combining malware detection, IP monitoring, and domain scanning to identify threats such as phishing. Although it eases security workloads and streamlines setup, some users highlight areas for enhancement, including improved .NET support and real-time customer support options. Despite needing upgrades in certain aspects like PCI testing and DDoS protection, its strengths lie in securing WordPress sites and managing web application firewalls effectively.

What are Sucuri's Key Features?

Malware Detection: Identifies and alerts users of website infections efficiently.
IP Monitoring: Provides analytics and visualization for tracking IP requests.
Domain Scanning: Detects malware and phishing across domain names.
Collaboration with Providers: Works with website providers for risk mitigation.
Website Security Simplification: Streamlines security processes with minimum effort.

What Benefits or ROI Can Users Expect?

Reduced Security Workload: Automation minimizes the need for constant manual monitoring.
Enhanced Threat Identification: Proactive notifications help in swift risk management.
Streamlined Setup: Easy deployment reduces implementation time.
Trust in Risk Updates: Reliable backend notifications ensure timely threat awareness.

In specific industries, Sucuri is implemented to safeguard WordPress environments and manage traffic using web application firewalls. Organizations often utilize its IP blocking and geolocation features for enhanced website protection, benefiting from its malware cleanup capabilities in various sectors.

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