🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Google Cloud Load Balancer

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Google Cloud Load Balancer is twice as popular as F5 BIG-IP.
🌎 Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Belgium, Turkey, and Poland.

F5 BIG-IP

Google Cloud Load Balancer

Type

Load balancer

About

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 mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

Google Cloud Load Balancer distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

f5.com #2,097

cloud.google.com

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is 2.2 times more popular than F5 BIG-IP.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Belgium, Turkey, and Poland.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

Canada

France

Brazil

Australia

British Virgin Islands

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Slovakia in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while F5 BIG-IP is more commonly used on finance and banking, education and reference, and government and military sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Government/Military

Health

Entertainment

Travel