F5 Advanced WAF vs Radware Kubernetes WAF comparison

F5 and Radware are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. F5 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4, while Radware is ranked #28 with an average rating of 10.0. F5 holds a 7.1% mindshare in WAF, compared to Radware’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Radware users who would recommend it.

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is 5.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 Advanced WAF is 7.1%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Radware Kubernetes WAF is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
F5 Advanced WAF	7.1%
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall	5.4%
Radware Kubernetes WAF	0.5%
Other	87.0%

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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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Kallamuddin Ansari

Cyber Security Consultant at ProTechmanize

Application security has protected critical banking services while policy learning minimizes false blocks

F5 Advanced WAF performs well overall, but I have noticed some points that could enhance the solution. Initially, policy tuning could be simpler, as while the learning engine is powerful, initial tuning still requires experienced engineers, which can be challenging for new teams due to the complexity of options and parameters. A more guided and simple tuning workflow would help reduce the learning curve. Additionally, tighter native integration with SIEM or SOAR tools would simplify correlation and investigations for security teams, although log exports are available. Overall, these are not blockers, merely enhancement opportunities, and once tuned, F5 Advanced WAF is very stable and reliable; improving usability, reporting, and onboarding would make it even more effective for larger environments.

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SandeepRawat

Network Engineer at Rah Infotech Pvt Ltd

Provides automated protection against web attacks and simplifies deployment with cost-effective pricing

Radware Kubernetes WAF protects our web applications from web-based attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. It provides automation capabilities. For example, if a DDoS attack is happening, it automatically recognizes the attack and prevents it accordingly. Radware Kubernetes WAF provides automation that is effective in dealing with security threats.

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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

"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."

"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."

"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."

"The product has a valuable security control functionality."

"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."

"Someone with a basic understanding of networking and security will be able to implement the firewall's basic features within 15 minutes."

"There is a huge signature repository"

"In general, it's a very good product: the solution is very stable, the performance is great, the product offers very good scalability, the pricing is very reasonable, the installation is very straightforward and quite simple, and technical support has a very fast response time and is helpful."

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"My favorite feature of F5 is the ability to play around with the ciphers. I also like the ability to have an immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs. The protection offered is great."

"The threat intelligence function is great."

"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."

"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."

"Despite a few issues, F5 Advanced WAF is performing well for me."

"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."

"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability, and its initial setup was straightforward."

"The WAF and APM are very useful, the solution has been mostly stable and reliable, and it can scale."

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"I would give Radware Kubernetes WAF a rating of 10 out of 10."

Cons

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

"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."

"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."

"The reporting could be more granular."

"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."

"The user interface is very simple and straightforward, but users need knowledge about DNS to accomplish tasks."

"Its stability could be better."

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

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"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."

"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution."

"I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF."

"The DDoS capabilities should be enhanced."

"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."

"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."

"Users would like to have an additional IP intelligence license to handle this within WAF itself without needing to engage with the SOC team."

"I think the price is very high. This is what I hear from the customers."

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"If Radware provides a separate web service like those offered by vendors such as F5 and Imperva, that would be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The solution is expensive."

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"The solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."

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

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

"It is not too pricey."

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

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"Licensing fees for this solution are paid on a yearly basis."

"The solution is very expensive so should only be used in the right environment."

"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 various plans available for Fortinet FortiWeb Cloud WAF as a Service, including a trial version."

"I am not sure about pricing but licenses are available on Google."

"The cost is slightly above average."

"Its price is fair. We have done a couple of deals where they were able to give some kind of discount to the customers. The price was initially high for the customers, but after a couple of negotiations, it came within their budget. They were happy with that."

"The way we deployed it, I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

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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	15
Large Enterprise	31

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

The price of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we...

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What is your primary use case for Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

We are using Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's advanced reporting and analytics tools with their Zero Trust, so e...

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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 r...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Advanced WAF?

The pricing for F5 Advanced WAF is a bit higher, but not that high. I would say for a good amount of revenue-generati...

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What needs improvement with F5 Advanced WAF?

On the features I wish existed, Big-IP Advanced WAF is primarily an on-premises solution and in that solution, there ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Radware Kubernetes WAF?

Radware Kubernetes WAF is less costly compared to F5.

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What needs improvement with Radware Kubernetes WAF?

If Radware provides a separate web service like those offered by vendors such as F5 and Imperva, that would be better.

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What is your primary use case for Radware Kubernetes WAF?

We use Radware Kubernetes WAF to protect our web applications from web-based attacks like SQL injection and cross-sit...

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Overview

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's intuitive dashboard enables users to build powerful rules through easy clicks and also provides Terraform integration. Every request to the WAF is inspected against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting over 27 Million websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged or logged as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud. Analytics and Cloudflare Logs enable visibility into actionable metrics for the user.

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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.

Radware Kubernetes WAF is a comprehensive and highly scalable web application security solution for CI/CD environments orchestrated by Kubernetes. In addition to marketleading data and application protection, Radware Kubernetes WAF is designed to natively fit these environments, meeting the required levels of automation, flexibility and elasticity.

The solution easily integrates with common software provisioning, testing and visibility tools in the CI/CD pipeline offering both IT security and DevOps personnel detailed insight down to the pod and container levels, and enables organizations to implement effective application and data security in on-premise and cloud-based implementations.

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Sample Customers

crunchbase, udacity, marketo, okcupid, zendesk

MAXIMUS, Vivo, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office, City Bank

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