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We performed a comparison between A10 Thunder TPS and Cloudflare DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed A10 Thunder TPS vs. Cloudflare DDoS Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"They give us the ability to configure many features for DDoS. There are many items that we can use.""It is a scalable solution.""The primary benefit that we see from their systems is that their filtering technology has the ability to detect and drop the malicious traffic from the legitimate traffic with a high success rate. That, in combination with the very small effort needed to manage their systems, are the two most important benefits to us.""Thunder TPS has automated mitigation and fully managed support in case the device cannot handle the attack. They have engineers available to respond.""The solution has reduced the amount of manual intervention required during an attack. We have the inline solution and when it comes to the customers that we have on it, it has saved us some troubleshooting time.""The GUI is very use-friendly. You can configure it through CLI or GUI, they give you an option to choose. It's a good solution in terms of the appliance itself. It's very light compared to other brands that offer DDoS solutions.""The solution's support is one of the coolest things about the product. I""The response time to an attack is instant. We've used some outsourced solutions in the past, out in the cloud, that weren't so quick. But it's all within our control now. We control how fast it mitigates."

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"Cloudflare is by far the most effective solution that I have come across.""The best feature is rate limiting. If I'm expecting 500 visits per hour, Cloudflare will limit the requests if I suddenly get 50,000.""The solution has different options that can be used to differentiate DDoS attacks.""This solution is easy to understand and easy to configure.""It will take the blow rather than our applications should an attack occur.""The capabilities of the software are strong enough for me to do what it's supposed to do. For me, we don't need to do a lot of configuration on our site. We just enable it and monitor it.""It is a stable solution.""Cloudflare DDoS is better than its competitors for its security, deployment, and scalability."

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Cons
"I rate Thunder TPS seven out of 10 for scalability.""The upgrade process for the boxes is not efficient. We have to go through the A10 aGalaxy where we have issues, like timeouts. They told me it was fixed in the latest version, but I tried to do it on the Portal and it is not working all the time.""Its documentation could be better.""The last issue we had to contact them about was just a question of a false-positive. The A10 system wasn't supposed to decide what is a false-positive. So if we send it good traffic, it's supposed to just pass that good traffic through. But we opened this last ticket because the A10 did block some of the good traffic. Their support had to tweak it a little bit, but it wasn't anything that took a long time.""They have a cloud scrubbing feature that redirects the traffic if the on-prem appliance can't accommodate a large amount of traffic but it's not available where we are.""The solution is a little expensive.""If there's one aspect of A10 that needs improvement it would be the training. All of their training is done online, at least in what we've been exposed to. I would like to have a classroom environment for training... It would give [people] a chance to provision it.""I would like for them to develop an advanced reporting feature."

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"The tool should provide on-premise versions. Currently, all versions are cloud-based.""Cloudflare DDoS has poor technical support.""Lacks a VPN feature to provide a secure connection to the data center.""The onboarding process can be improved a little bit.""The initial onboarding was causing us some confusion.""Our customers no longer use Cloudflare because its service is subpar.""There are premium tier live service and lower tier live service, so we opted for the lower tier. But there is no medium tier where we pay a little extra and get a bit more service. So if that can be improved.""Operating and tuning the product is difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The financials are always a challenge with this type of technology. That's not really a product-functionality thing but it's the area where we push A10 the most."
  • "We had a customer who was down for six hours and the loss of revenue for him was three times the price he was paying for us per year. The customer just said, "I don't care about paying you because on only one attack I saved money. It's three times better than losing money.""
  • "Pricing was much higher with Arbor (APS) for the same type of solution."
  • "Pricing is very reasonable."
  • "We may need to pay fifty percent more if we purchase other solutions. For the payments made to A10 Thunder TPS, we have received three-year support."
  • "We did a price survey, and compared to other solutions, A10 Thunder TPS wasn't cheap."
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  • "The price tag is no longer $200,000, but rather $300,000 to $400,000. It's twice."
  • "The pricing of the solution is cheap. The licensing cost is also very low. I rate the cost and pricing a three out of ten."
  • "The solution is not that expensive."
  • "The solution's pricing lacks transparency."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of A10 Thunder TPS is load balancing.
    Top Answer:We did a price survey, and compared to other solutions, A10 Thunder TPS wasn't cheap.
    Top Answer:The solution is a little expensive.
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    Top Answer:Cloudflare DDoS mitigates DDoS attacks.
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing lacks transparency. You never know what you're paying for, and even their team sometimes cannot give you a correct answer on how they calculate something.
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    Also Known As
    Cloudflare DDoS Protection
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    Overview

    The Thunder TPS is a family of high-performance DDoS defense solutions that detect and mitigate multi-vector DDoS attacks. Unlike traditional DDoS defenses that leave a wake of collateral damage against users, Thunder TPS applies a source-based defense-in-depth mitigation pipeline. This multimodal defense that includes actionable DDoS weapons intelligence, operator definable adaptive policies, and machine learning-powered Zero-Day Automated Protection (ZAP) blocks attackers while protecting real users.

    The Thunder TPS is uniquely suited for communication service providers, online gaming, and enterprise network operators who protect large networks and need compact solutions with faster response from a fully automated, zero-touch defense during an attack.

    Protect your Internet properties with a cloud-based, always-on DDoS protection, powered by the intelligence harnessed from Cloudflare’s always learning global network

    Sample Customers
    DDoS defense solution trusted for more than 200 service providers, online gaming, and enterprises including; Bungie, Comcast, KDDI Corporation, Leaseweb, Microsoft Azure, NTT Docomo, Softbank, Turkcell Superonline, Verizon and more.
    crunchbase, SoFi, ao.com, LogMeIn, DigitalOcean, okcupid, Montecito, Discord, Udacity
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider40%
    Cloud Provider10%
    Media Company10%
    Computer Software Company10%
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government9%
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Comms Service Provider13%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Educational Organization8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise33%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    A10 Thunder TPS vs. Cloudflare DDoS
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about A10 Thunder TPS vs. Cloudflare DDoS and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    A10 Thunder TPS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews while Cloudflare DDoS is ranked 4th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. A10 Thunder TPS is rated 8.8, while Cloudflare DDoS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of A10 Thunder TPS writes "A highly stable solution that can be used for load balancing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare DDoS writes "Perfect from my perspective; simple, user-friendly and easy to configure". A10 Thunder TPS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Corero, Radware DefensePro and Imperva DDoS, whereas Cloudflare DDoS is most compared with AWS Shield, Prolexic, Arbor DDoS, StormWall Website Anti-DDoS Protection and Linode. See our A10 Thunder TPS vs. Cloudflare DDoS report.

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