⚡ Web Application Firewalls in China

Web Application Firewalls (WAF) are security solutions that inspect and filter incoming HTTP and HTTPS requests before they reach a web application.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 0.5% of websites from China.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top WAF technologies in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is F5 BIG-IP with an impressive share of 46.3%, followed by Azure Front Door with 13.2% and Azure Application Gateway with 11.7%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 12 WAF technologies used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
F5 BIG-IP
Seattle, Washington, United States

An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

$3,200+/year
2
Azure Front Door
Redmond, Washington, United States

A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

$35+/month
3
Azure Application Gateway
Redmond, Washington, United States

A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure.

$0.0255+/hour
4
Wordfence
Seattle, Washington, United States

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

Free$149+/year
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Safedog
Xiamen, China

A Chinese SaaS cloud security platform that provides integrated protection for cloud servers, web applications, and cloud-native environments.

Free4,950 CNY+/year
6
Imperva WAF
San Mateo, California, United States

Imperva Cloud WAF protects websites from automated vulnerability scans, Layer 7 DDoS attacks, and malicious bots.

$7,000+/year
7
Sucuri CloudProxy
Tempe, Arizona, United States

A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.
8
AWS WAF Captcha
Seattle, Washington, United States

A feature of the AWS Web Application Firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding.

$$$
9
NetScaler
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

An application delivery and security platform that provides high-performance load balancing, application delivery, and security solutions.

$11,000+/year
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FortiWeb
Sunnyvale, California, United States

A web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from known and unknown exploits and zero-day threats.

$3,400+
11
Ivanti vADC
South Jordan, Utah, United States

A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall.

$$$
12
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC
Campbell, California, United States

A unified high-performance platform that helps organizations achieve their availability, acceleration, application control, and application security objectives.

$7,000+/year

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