🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Wordfence

Type

Load balancer
Website security tool

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.

Wordfence is a WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code.

It features an endpoint firewall integrated directly with WordPress, malware detection for over 44,000 known variants, file integrity checks against the WordPress repository, brute force login protection with two-factor authentication, real-time traffic monitoring, and IP and country blocking.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial
$3,200+/year
Free version ✔️ 30-day delay on firewall rules and malware signatures
Premium
(real-time signatures)
$149/year
Care
(hands-on support)
$490/year
Response
(1-hour response time)
$1250/year

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #4
WAF › Rank #2
WAF › Rank #1
Bot Mitigation › Rank #3
Security › Rank #4
WordPress Plugins › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Wordfence security tool is 1.4 times more popular than F5 BIG-IP.
Total websites

Market share

WAF

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Wordfence is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Brazil.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Australia
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Wordfence is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while F5 BIG-IP is more commonly used on business, finance and banking, and education and reference sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Government/Military
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Internet Services
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#131
#163
#164
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Name
Rank
pragmaticplay.com
#6,582
#6,849
#9,500
#10,174
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See also

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