Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs Sucuri comparison

Barracuda Networks and Sucuri Security are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.8, while Sucuri Security is ranked #34. Barracuda Networks holds a 1.8% mindshare in WAF, compared to Sucuri Security’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Barracuda Networks 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 Jan 1, 2025

Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Sucuri are competing products in the web security space, designed to protect against online threats and vulnerabilities. Barracuda is better for enterprises needing comprehensive protection, while Sucuri excels in providing flexible, cloud-hosted solutions.

Features: Barracuda Web Application Firewall offers features like advanced threat protection, DDoS mitigation, and extensive reporting, suitable for larger organizations. Sucuri focuses on website protection, monitoring, and performance enhancement with malware scanning and included firewall in its cloud services.

Room for Improvement: Barracuda can improve in offering more flexible pricing plans, enhancing user interface simplicity for inexperienced users, and streamlining deployment processes for faster setup. Sucuri could enhance its reporting capabilities for deeper insights, offer more in-depth configurability for advanced users, and expand its enterprise-level feature set to better compete with larger solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Barracuda provides both on-premises and cloud deployment options with a strong support network suitable for enterprises with specific configurations. Sucuri, being a cloud-native service, allows quick deployment and integration with responsive customer support known for its user-centric approach.

Pricing and ROI: Barracuda's pricing reflects its extensive feature set, appealing to larger enterprises with significant budgets, promising long-term ROI through adaptable pricing and scalability. Sucuri offers cost-effective pricing ideal for smaller or midsize businesses, achieving swift ROI through its efficient and affordable security solution.

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is 4.5%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Barracuda Web Application Firewall is 1.8%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sucuri is 1.5%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall	4.5%
Barracuda Web Application Firewall	1.8%
Sucuri	1.5%
Other	92.2%

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Featured Reviews

Dean Barisic

CTO at PlayNirvana

Advanced security reporting has protected high-traffic betting platforms from constant attacks

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we have a dedicated IT team for that, and I'm not involved with Cloudflare much anymore. But if I were to compare them to F5, I would like to see more features that F5 offers. F5 has an option to bring the whole infrastructure, the whole WAF and all their packages, Bot Management, and everything else on your infrastructure. You need to install certain services from their side, and then you can choose if you would like requests to hit your servers immediately or if requests need to be proxied through F5 backbone. That would be a nice addition because we have 90% of the traffic as legit traffic coming from whitelisted servers. If it comes from whitelisted servers, I don't need to go every request through the backbone; I could easily just IP whitelist everything. Then I could maybe have Bot Management on my infrastructure that drastically reduces the price of Cloudflare. I would like to see Push CDN more improved in the next release of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. And maybe something similar to Pushpin that Fastly has, which is an option where you can push messages that then can be scaled globally over the network. From our perspective, if we have a listener that listens for stock updates, I would just need to have one processor that pushes those updates to the Cloudflare API, and then Cloudflare would broadcast that message to all listeners. Cloudflare will check the order of the message, and if you, as a customer, are not connected or have some kind of network issue, when you reconnect, you will receive the latest state and missing updates.

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Shahzad Abid

Director Information Technology at College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan

Has protected our legacy applications effectively but has required constant manual filtering due to false positives

I assess the effectiveness of the machine learning-driven threat detection in Barracuda Web Application Firewall as sometimes behaving abnormally, often showing me false positive attacks, so I have to fix these attacks from time to time. From a stability point of view, I would definitely rate Barracuda Web Application Firewall a seven out of ten. There is definitely some room for improvement; nothing is perfect in the world. I am not satisfied with the technical support from Barracuda. I am somewhat disappointed with the technical support that I have received so far. Whenever I generate a ticket for my problem, it goes to the Indian support team, and they all the time start with the most junior team member, consuming all my precious time. At the end, I have to close that ticket without any satisfactory solution. I have complained that they should shift my support to any other region because I don't need Indian support; they are simply pathetic and not up to mark. To improve Barracuda Web Application Firewall, customers should be given ongoing training opportunities regarding the product and its features. I am not familiar with many features that are available, only using those which are necessary for my applications. I believe Barracuda must provide clearer product information or training sessions to make it more user-friendly, as sometimes its interface can be rigid and lacking in helpful resources or user tutorials about its features. For it to get closer to a ten, I think advanced reporting is missing because, as I mentioned earlier, there are many false positive events being recorded. Often, when I analyze these attacks, they turn out to be genuine customers or users interacting with my product, but Barracuda tags them as attackers. Reducing false positives must be a priority.

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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

"Some of the most valuable features of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall include its DNS zone setup and the zero trust policy."

"The solution protects our application, which runs on the HTTP protocol, from DDoS attacks."

"The setup process is very simple for me."

"The stability of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall deserves a perfect 10 out of 10."

"It is configurable via API."

"It's pretty convenient and pretty easy to set up and run. And then kind of for static content, it also offers caching."

"This solution does a good job of preventing web application attacks, SQL injections, and cross-site scripting attacks."

"This is a good product; it's reliable and scales well."

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"Its recommendation about the probabilities on the website is great. It also has free probability managers for the website, which is really helpful. The protection engine, signature-based protection behavior, and analysis features are also great. It also has an ATP module for sandbox scanning and behavior analysis for file uploads."

"Our experience with technical support has been very positive."

"This product gives us visibility into what is going on in two servers, including connections and sessions, real-time alerts, very good reporting, and KPIs, and it makes managing security of a critical server very easy with a friendly GUI."

"We find that its features provide us with solutions for practically all our needs."

"Barracuda WAF is very good product; it is very responsive, and feature-wise, it's very good and easy to use, with easy deployment of any kind of service, good technical support, stable performance, scalability, and simple installation, plus strong reporting."

"Data leak prevention is very important and ensures protection against attacks."

"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."

"The availability and stability are very high."

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"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."

"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."

"The initial setup was very easy."

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

"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."

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

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

Cons

"The product can improve by having more multitenancy capability, which is currently not available."

"Its stability could be better."

"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."

"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."

"The rate limiting functionality could be enhanced, as we find it somewhat limited."

"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well."

"The learning curve was steep initially."

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"I have issues with the load balancing of the solution which is slow. The connection pooling in Barracuda also doesn't work. There is an issue when someone needs access to a site quickly. The issue is with HTTPS services. I am not sure if they have changed all these in the solution’s latest version."

"The reporting aspect of the solution needs improvement. I don't find that it's very good."

"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."

"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."

"There are false positives that I am receiving when compared to other WAFs. The issues with false positives affect client transactions, leading to complaints about blocked transactions."

"The reporting aspect of the solution needs improvement. I don't find that it's very good. They could do some work on it to make it much better. It's not that the reporting isn't secure. It's just that I would prefer to store my reports for an extended period of time. Right now, that's not possible and I'd prefer it if that could change. I also would say that the reports themselves are expensive."

"An area for improvement in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is attack identification. Other banks identified attacks and tracked logs that the solution wasn't able to identify because of its ready-made rules pre-deployed by the vendor. My organization raised this issue with the technical support team. Another area to improve in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its service desk. The team resorted to stonewalling because they couldn't accept that a feature was missing in the solution, and it was only after a lot of drilling down that the service desk team accepted that, and would be adding that feature in the future. My organization had to submit a report to the Reserve Bank of India with information on the logs identified and the attacks that happened, and that there was a failure on the part of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Reserve Bank of India conducts a tri-monthly cyber risk audit in all Indian banks. Even smaller banks identified and caught attacks that my organization wasn't able to do, so I was looking into other solutions that competitor banks could be using because Barracuda Web Application Firewall failed to identify some of the attacks."

"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."

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

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

"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."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"It is not too pricey."

"The solution is expensive."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I believe the pricing is not the best, but it's reasonable and acceptable. We also use the McAfee system in parallel. In terms of pricing, its okay - not great, but not bad either. It falls in the middle, which is acceptable. In terms of support licensing, last time, we were searching for a solution, and we considered products from resellers rather than directly from the cloud provider. However, the pricing we encountered was exceptionally high. As a result, we are inclined to select support from the reseller."

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"The product is expensive."

"The price of the solution is a little expensive. There is a license for this solution and it can be purchased every one, two, or five years."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing is less compared to other web applications."

"The product is inexpensive."

"They only offer a yearly licensing plan."

"The product pricing was competitive for the value it offers regarding security features."

"While I would have to check on the price of the solution, I feel it to be okay and it matches the market price."

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

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

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

University

Comms Service Provider

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	12

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Overview

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall integrates DDoS protection, load balancing, and firewall capabilities. Its ease of use, configurability, and robust security measures make it a versatile choice for protecting web applications.

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall provides a comprehensive defense against threats with advanced reporting and robust security measures. It includes DNS integration, rate limiting, and extensive rule sets, all within a SaaS model that allows API configurability. Users value its caching, scalability, and pricing, although enhancements are needed in rate-limiting and third-party integration. Improvements in customer support, especially in India, real-time controls, and user documentation are also desired. Users seek a more intuitive dashboard, better log management, and improved alert systems, along with multitenancy capabilities and enhanced reporting.

What are the key features of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

DDoS Protection: Shields applications from denial-of-service attacks
Load Balancing: Ensures efficient traffic distribution
DNS Integration: Enhances domain name system security
Rate Limiting: Controls traffic flow and reduces abuse
Extensive Rule Sets: Offers customizable security rules

What benefits and ROI can users find in reviews?

Scalability: Easily adapts to growing business needs
Pricing: Offers reasonable pricing structure
Caching: Improves application performance and speed
Configurable Security: Provides customizable defense settings
Efficient Management: Simplifies security and application control

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall finds application in industries like banking and retail by acting as a comprehensive security gateway, managing authentication and authorization while protecting web applications from malicious Layer 7 traffic. It also implements load balancing, CDN, and zero-trust policies, supported by advanced reporting, analytics tools, and threat scoring to meet specific industry needs.

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Barracuda Web Application Firewall combines advanced bot management, DDoS protection, and real-time threat detection for enhanced application security, making it a popular choice for safeguarding web environments.

Organizations rely on Barracuda Web Application Firewall for its robust features, including automatic security updates and comprehensive technical support. It offers a user-friendly interface, though improvements are needed in scalability and false positive reduction. It is widely used to enhance security against DDoS attacks, cross-site scripting, SQL injections, and malicious bots. Suitable for Azure environments, it manages legitimate traffic and ensures OWASP compliance across cloud and data centers.

What are the top features of Barracuda Web Application Firewall?

Advanced Bot Management: Protects against malicious bot activity through intelligent detection.
DDoS Protection: Offers defenses against Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
Automatic Security Updates: Keeps protections current with auto updates.
Real-Time Threat Detection and Reporting: Monitors and reports threats immediately for rapid response.
Content Filtering and URL Encryption: Secures traffic with robust content inspection and URL encryption.
Traffic Management: Ensures efficient traffic handling and stability.

What benefits should be noted in reviews?

Enhanced Security: Strong protection against a wide range of web threats.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies configuration and management tasks.
Comprehensive Support: Access to technical support for rapid issue resolution.
Real-Time Monitoring: Immediate detection and reporting enhance threat management.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall is implemented in industries like cloud and banking for its compliance capabilities and threat protection. It supports web applications through traffic filtering, server protection, and content inspection in hosting environments.

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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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