🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Ngrok

📈 F5 BIG-IP is much more popular than Ngrok.
🌍 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Ngrok is particularly popular in Indonesia.

Statistics based on 3.7M+ analyzed websites. About this data

F5 BIG-IP

Ngrok

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

Ngrok is a globally distributed reverse proxy platform that creates encrypted tunnels and consolidates load balancing, API gateway, and firewall capabilities for applications, APIs, and network services.

It supports HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and TLS traffic, OAuth, OIDC, and JWT authentication, rate limiting, IP restrictions, webhook verification, endpoint load balancing, a Kubernetes Ingress Operator, Agent SDKs, and real-time traffic inspection with request replay.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

f5.com #2,097

ngrok.com #19,187

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Free version ✔️ 1GB data transfer, 20K HTTP/S requests per month

Hobbyist
(5GB transfer, 100K HTTP/S reqs) $10/month

Pay-as-you-go
(5GB+ transfer, 100K+ HTTP/S reqs) $20+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The F5 BIG-IP load balancer is 39 times more popular than Ngrok.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular than Ngrok in all countries.

United States

Germany

Canada

France

United Kingdom

Japan

Turkey

Brazil

Spain

Belgium

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular than Ngrok in all market segments.

Business

Finance/Banking

Government/Military

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Public Information

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#135

#159

#183

#196

#209

Name

Rank

#559

#5,268

#9,363

#9,563

#12,957