🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Google Cloud Load Balancing

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

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

F5 BIG-IP

Google Cloud Load Balancing

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 Balancing is a managed load balancing service that distributes application traffic across virtual machines and containers on Google Cloud.

It supports global and regional load balancing, a single anycast IP address for worldwide deployments, automatic scaling without pre-warming, integration with Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor, and uses Envoy and Google Front End proxies to route and manage traffic.

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

Free version ❌

Forwarding rules First 5 $0.025/unit/hour
Additional $0.01/rule/hour

Inbound data $0.008+/GB

Outbound data $0.008+/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Google Cloud Load Balancing is 2.3 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 Balancing is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Turkey, Poland, and Vietnam.

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 Israel in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Cloud Load Balancing 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 health sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Health

Government/Military

Entertainment

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#135

#159

#183

#196

#209

Name

Rank

#17

#86

#93

#98