Alternatives and competitors

Sites like F5

The 20 closest application delivery alternatives to F5, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to F5? The closest matches are nginx, ngenix.net and Gainsight. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About F5

F5 nginx.com

NGINX | F5

Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.

Top 1K · #106 English 10 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

F5's commercial NGINX product line: web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway, Kubernetes ingress controller, web application firewall, and managed NGINX services on Azure and Google Cloud, with SaaS management and observability tools.

Who it’s for
Enterprise DevOps and platform engineering teams
Business model
Software subscriptions and licensing

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to F5’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to F5

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to F5, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    nginx nginx.org Top 100

    nginx

    open source web server and a reverse proxy server

  2. 02
    ngenix.net Top 1K Russian

    Доступ к сайту временно ограничен владельцем веб-ресурса.

  3. 03
    Gainsight aptrinsic.com Top 10K English

    Product Experience Platform | Enhance User Adoption with Gainsight

    Gainsight’s digital product experience platform helps businesses leverage insights to generate revenue, prevent churn, and create personalized journeys.

  4. 04
    Cloudflare cloudflare.com Top 100 English

    Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

    Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications

  5. 05
    Linode linode.com Top 1K English

    The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai

    Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.

  6. 06
    Zyxel zyxel.com Top 10K English

    Zyxel

    Zyxel is a networking industry leader, deeply rooted in various network technology areas. We prioritize customer-centric product design, and focus on a superior competitive advantage, driving communication technology forward to meet the internet’s evolving demands.

  7. 07
    Lumen savvis.net Top 10K English

    AI-Ready Networking & Secure Cloud Solutions | Lumen Technologies

    Power your business with our global fiber network. We provide secure networking, edge cloud and AI-ready infrastructure to connect people, data and apps.

  8. 08
    Fortinet fortinet.com Top 10K

    network security corporation

  9. 09
    Netgate netgate.com Top 10K English

    Netgate | Firewall, VPN and Routing Solutions

    Netgate is an open-source driven secure networking company that provides appliance and software-based firewall, VPN and routing solutions including pfSense

  10. 10
    Startpage.com startpage.com English

    privacy-focused online search engine

  11. 11
    ModSecurity modsecurity.org Top 10K English

    ModSecurity Project – Open-Source Web Application Firewall

    Protect your websites and apps with ModSecurity, the OWASP-backed open-source WAF trusted to stop threats. Upgrade your security today.

  12. 12
    Airwallex airwallex.com Top 10K English

    Airwallex US: AI Financial Platform for Local & Global Business

    Airwallex AI agents consolidate business accounts, transfers, cards, expenses, payments, and billing with $0 ACH and market-leading FX.

  13. 13
    Nvidia nvidia.com Top 1K English

    World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing | NVIDIA

    NVIDIA invents the GPU and drives advances in AI, HPC, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.

  14. 14
    Glance Networks glance.net Top 10K

    American software company, developers of the web-conferencing software Glance

  15. 15
    Wix.com wix.com Top 1K English

    Wix.com - The platform trusted by millions of businesses

    Build the business you have in mind on a platform trusted by millions. Hosting, business tools, domains and marketing built in. Try it for free.

  16. 16
    Genesys mypurecloud.com Top 10K English

    Genesys Cloud: The Agentic AI CX Platform for the Enterprise | Genesys

    Genesys Cloud is an agentic AI CX platform that delivers personalized customer and employee experiences across every channel.

  17. 17
    Scaleway scaleway.com English

    European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway

    Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.

  18. 18
    You.com you.com English

    You.com | Search and inference for AI

    The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.

  19. 19
    New Relic newrelic.com Top 1K English

    AI-powered Observability

    New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.

  20. 20
    iubenda iubenda.com Top 10K English

    Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda

    iubenda is your 360° compliance solution for global data privacy laws. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent management, ROPA, Terms and more.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to nginx.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones F5 uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What F5 is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
  • Sanity page source: cdn.sanity.io/
JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Cookie consent
  • TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
Hosting
  • Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::iad1::4tk7j-1793956259598-59c308cddec6
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Iv/Cm1UielF25k9FOYOH+QWS9iqMJUFKzUNVB9R…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=ec7fb56d-ee75-4979-b3e5-10bfbff0ab9e
  • Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=gl56nwvh4szl
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JrwNJWq0sLGx6H5Voxu-bQyH6-Fj6ifMzyNzIppraFc

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