🆚 Azure Front Door vs. F5 BIG-IP

📈 F5 BIG-IP is noticeably more popular than Azure Front Door.
🌎 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada.
🌍 Azure Front Door is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Netherlands.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Azure Front Door

F5 BIG-IP

Type

Content delivery network

Load balancer

About

Azure Front Door is a content delivery network service from the Microsoft Azure cloud that offers more than 100 edge locations, Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities, and TCP splitting paired with a private global Microsoft backbone network.

F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS and bot mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

f5.com #981

Pricing

Free version ❌

Standard $35/month

Premium $330/month

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB) $0.083/GB

10–50 TB $0.066/GB

50–150 TB $0.057/GB

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The F5 BIG-IP load balancer is 1.7 times more popular than Azure Front Door.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

WAF

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada, while Azure Front Door is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Netherlands.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Canada

France

Australia

Japan

Netherlands

Brazil

Spain

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the WAF category.

🥇 Most popular in Germany in the WAF category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the WAF category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular among sites focused on business, finance and banking, and education and reference, while Azure Front Door is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, online shopping, and travel sites.

Business

Finance/Banking

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Online Shopping

Health

Internet Services

Travel

Public Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#57

#184

#387

Name

Rank

#97

#131

#132

#163

#164