Fortinet FortiWeb vs Uplynk comparison

Fortinet and Uplynk are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. Fortinet is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Uplynk is ranked #28 with an average rating of 8.5. Fortinet holds a 4.4% mindshare in WAF, compared to Uplynk’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Uplynk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Uplynk and Fortinet FortiWeb compete in digital security and content delivery, with Fortinet FortiWeb often viewed superior due to its robust features despite Uplynk's competitive pricing and support.

Features: Uplynk offers seamless video streaming, efficient content delivery network optimization, and competitive cost-effectiveness. Fortinet FortiWeb provides advanced threat protection, application layer security, and integrated network security features.

Room for Improvement: Uplynk could enhance its security features, scalability, and wider integration capabilities. Fortinet FortiWeb could improve user-friendliness, reduce deployment complexity, and offer more affordable pricing.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Uplynk features a straightforward deployment model and responsive customer service, making content management simple. In contrast, Fortinet FortiWeb offers a more complex deployment focused on extensive security configurations, complemented by thorough technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Uplynk's setup costs are competitive, enhancing streaming efficiency for a favorable ROI. Fortinet FortiWeb requires higher initial investments justified by its substantial ROI through enhanced protection and compliance, appealing to those prioritizing security investment.

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Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Uplynk

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Review summaries and opinions

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is 3.8%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiWeb is 4.4%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Uplynk is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiWeb	4.4%
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall	3.8%
Uplynk	1.3%
Other	90.5%

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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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HameedAhmed

Joint Director at PAA

Security threats have been reduced through seamless deployment and strong integration with other tools

I have used Fortinet FortiWeb's integration features. We have easily integrated all of the applications with the product. Most of the applications we are using are in-house built. My technical team is looking after the best features. I have not used it extensively for maybe two and a half years. I have been involved in the installation, but I am not actually using the product. I work with it from time to time but not extensively. I would assess Fortinet FortiWeb's adaptive machine learning and artificial intelligence as having new patches installed regarding artificial intelligence, but when we bought it, I think the learning feature was there. Now they have installed artificial intelligence features through patches. We have a complete portfolio of Fortinet in our organization, including FortiMail, Fortinet FortiWeb, and FortiGate, along with multi-factor authentication. All of the products are from Fortinet. Fortinet tools integrate with each other and work in conjunction. I think Fortinet FortiWeb has helped us meet regulatory compliance because we are not a regulatory organization, but our sister organization is regulatory. We have regulatory compliance with the International Civil Aviation Authority, whose audit teams have checked our data center and these security products, and they are satisfied with us. The question about leveraging Fortinet FortiWeb's automated policy management does not pertain to my domain because I am not so technical, but I am in a management role now. My engineer is more technical than me. I would rate this product an eight point five out of ten.

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AliKhalil

manager at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable live streaming has increased our continuous viewership and maintained audience trust

Uplynk is deployed in my organization on-premises and is fully on-site. Uplynk supports our business continuity or disaster recovery plans because it's really well protected and it doesn't lag or crash when there's a spike in all areas. Uplynk helps us comply with regulatory requirements in our industry by keeping us live. Uplynk integrates really well with other systems or tools we use. You need a whole team to really run Uplynk because there are so many moving pieces, the code, the app, and other components. My experience with Uplynk's analytics or reporting capabilities is that they are especially helpful to update the teams and our stakeholders. I would describe Uplynk's flexibility or customization options as really easy, really customizable, and it integrates in many areas. Uplynk helps me deliver content to different devices or platforms by allowing us to upload on and stay live on tablets, computers, and televisions. It allows us to stay live to get those viewerships. Uplynk is a software that saves time, but you need a solid team to run Uplynk to ensure viewership and everything is moving because there are many pieces to keep. I advise others looking into using Uplynk that it takes many different areas: coding, integration, APIs, and all that. It takes a team to run it, and you need to be a big company. If you're streaming and doing all that at a big scale, use it. If you're on a smaller scale, Uplynk is going to be really hard for you to manage. It's not something that's simple; just use the ones that are basic out there if you're an influencer and things like that. I would rate this product a nine overall.

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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

"Cloudflare is cheaper compared to Azure WAF, which I have considered before."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"It protects web applications efficiently."

"The most valuable part of the solution for us overall is exactly that it is a Software-as-a-Service product."

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"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."

"We can block access using the IP address so no one can connect to our web server or website using the real IP."

"The most valuable feature is the tool's integration with load-balancing applications, similar to FortiADC. Its importance depends on customer requirements, such as whether they prioritize application load balancing or layer seven protection."

"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"

"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product; before that, there was an auto-learning feature that fixed many problems, and there are no false negatives now."

"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."

"In my opinion, the FortiGate appliances, and especially the D series, are really powerful ones and worth providing for your network."

"Our customers find Fortinet FortiWeb much better than other solutions."

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"Uplynk has positively impacted our organization by bringing us more viewership, as it does not glitch and stays stable during spikes in viewership, leading to approximately a 15 to 20 percent increase in viewership because there's no lag and nothing fails."

"I recommend this solution because, for me, it's one of the most efficient and performant CDN operators."

"Without EdgeCast, our website was taking 10 to 15 seconds to load; with EdgeCast, it loads under five seconds and it's a good product."

"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."

"It's super easy to use and integrate with."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the Uplynk platform for streaming purposes."

"The customer support and service responsiveness were excellent."

"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."

Cons

"Support can be challenging at times."

"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."

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

"The notification part could be improved. It's very much connected to Web Application Firewall, rate-limiting, and DDoS protection."

"The learning curve was steep initially."

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

"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."

"Cloudflare should update the version of the ModSecurity core rule set that they run on."

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"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."

"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."

"When we look at the incident reports in the dashboard, they are available for a maximum duration of 24 hours. They should provide more time for the analysis and increase the duration of the availability of these reports. Currently, it gives the options for 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours. It would be excellent if there are more options for a longer time period. It may be configurable, but I don't know how to do it."

"It costs too much."

"Their support needs improvement."

"The solution is a bit expensive when compared to other products."

"They could integrate some kind of machine learning and AI facilities to automate workflows."

"I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted."

More Fortinet FortiWeb cons

"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."

"The tool needs to resolve its lack of innovation."

"The pricing was initially very expensive."

"To improve Uplynk, it should be made more user-friendly, as it takes a lot of moving pieces to make it work."

"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."

"The comparable features that we are looking at fits into Cloudflare's free version, as opposed to Verizon EdgeCast, which we are paying for."

"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"It is not too pricey."

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

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"It keeps changing, but it's based on the size of the VM you buy and also the traffic throughput you want from it, whereas what we have on Azure is just the traffic throughput. You can also pay on a monthly basis from Azure. During each part of the project, it's okay to get Azure-based licensing or AWS-based licensing for FortiWeb, but over time, you would want to go with the perpetual license. You should go to Fortinet and buy the license from them. So, there is a two-step process there."

"There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."

"There's only one payment for the duration of the license. On a scale from one to five, I would rate pricing at four. I have not encountered any additional costs on my projects involving Fortinet FortiWeb."

"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall is not expensive."

"The product provides very good prices to customers. The price is set well and offers great value for money."

"The costs are standard. We pay around $1,600 yearly."

"The tool is really expensive."

More Fortinet FortiWeb pricing and cost advice

"Be careful about the options because to have all the features can be very expensive."

"The product is cheaper compared to other solutions."

"When I modeled it out, we are spending somewhere between $600 to $800 a month with Verizon EdgeCast."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

17%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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

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Small Business	60
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	37

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiWeb?

The pricing for Fortinet FortiWeb varies with different models having different prices. It depends on the requirement...

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiWeb?

There is room for improvement in Fortinet FortiWeb. The team was only from FortiGate itself. They are making new firm...

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What is your primary use case for Fortinet FortiWeb?

Fortinet FortiWeb is very good as a web application solution. I have been working with Fortinet FortiWeb since 2020.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Edgio Global CDN?

I wasn't a part of the pricing, setup cost, and licensing discussions, but from what I heard from my colleagues, they...

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What needs improvement with Edgio Global CDN?

To improve Uplynk, it should be made more user-friendly, as it takes a lot of moving pieces to make it work. Uplynk i...

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What is your primary use case for Edgio Global CDN?

My main use case for Uplynk is live channels around the clock. Since we're in the television business, we're constant...

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Also Known As

Cloudflare WAF

FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Edgio, Limelight Content Delivery, Limelight Orchestrate Delivery, Limelight Origin Storage, Global CDN, Verizon EdgeCast

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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Fortinet FortiWeb provides advanced web application protection, using AI-driven threat detection and seamless integration with Fortinet products, ensuring robust security and easy management. It's favored for its scalability in protecting websites, mobile apps, and APIs from threats like SQL injection.

Fortinet FortiWeb offers robust web application security with features like machine learning-driven threat detection, load balancing, and OWASP protection. Its comprehensive security measures include web traffic filtering and DDoS protection, making it ideal for securing APIs and web servers. Cost-effectiveness and easy deployment further enhance its appeal as it serves banking, e-commerce, and industrial sectors. Areas needing enhancement include load balancing capabilities, comprehensive documentation, and improved support response times, addressing user-reported issues such as false positives and integration challenges. Documentation for cloud deployment is crucial for enhanced logging and performance stability.

What are Fortinet FortiWeb's Key Features?

Machine Learning: Detects threats using advanced algorithms.
AI-Driven Threat Detection: Provides automated responses to vulnerabilities.
Load Balancing: Distributes traffic across servers for efficiency.
Anti-Defacement: Protects websites from unauthorized alterations.
OWASP Protection: Guards against common web security vulnerabilities.

Why Consider Fortinet FortiWeb for Web Security?

Cost-Effectiveness: Provides affordable security solutions.
Reliability: Offers consistent performance in threat protection.
Easy Deployment: Simplifies the integration process into existing systems.
Robust Security: Delivers comprehensive protection against cyber threats.
Integration: Ensures compatibility with Fortinet's broader security ecosystem.

Companies across banking, e-commerce, and financial sectors implement Fortinet FortiWeb for its comprehensive security features in protecting web applications from SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Its use as a web application firewall provides essential protection and load-balancing capabilities, ensuring compliance with standards like PCI DSS in cloud environments and industrial settings.

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Uplynk is a robust platform providing CDN integration and optimized streaming services, improving user experience and application performance. It offers control over CDN caching, redirects, and asset transformations, supporting seamless asset management and mobile security.

Uplynk enhances application performance through efficient API calls, optimized web server loads, and robust CDN configurations. It ensures high availability and performance by leveraging Verizon EdgeCast CDN, crucial for managing high-volume traffic on e-commerce platforms. Though Uplynk excels in asset caching and mobile security with JWT tokens and AES encryption, some users note its global reach needs improvement, and its interface lacks modern user-friendliness. Deployment of new rules can be slower compared to competitors, while documentation and rate limiting features require enhancement. Despite this, Uplynk remains a preferred choice for organizations seeking streamlined web server load optimization and enhanced application performance.

What are Uplynk's key features?

Rules Engine V4: Manages CDN caching, redirects, and asset transformations.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with Verizon's existing offerings.
Efficient API Calls: Enhances streaming and application performance.
Staging Support: Testing in staging environments without impacting production.
Mobile Security: Includes JWT tokens and AES encryption.

What benefits should users expect in reviews?

Improved Load Times: Efficient CDN configurations enhance site speed.
Enhanced User Navigation: Optimized performance for high-volume traffic.
DDoS Protection: Layer 3, 4, and 7 protection for comprehensive security.
Performance Optimization: Mobile development and streamlined caching.

Organizations deploy Uplynk to optimize web server load, enhance streaming service performance and support high-traffic volume management, especially in e-commerce. Its security measures, combined with Verizon EdgeCast CDN, ensure high availability and reliable performance, enhancing mobile engagement through specialized frameworks.

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Sample Customers

crunchbase, udacity, marketo, okcupid, zendesk

Lush, Barnabas Health, Options, Riverside Healthcare, Hillsbourough County Schools, Columbia Public Schools, Schiller AG

TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach

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