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Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. F5 NGINX

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricBarracuda Web Application Firewall

by Barracuda

F5 NGINX

by F5

Overall rating4.34.6
Review count14113
Ease of use8.88.7
Ease of setup8.68.6
Quality of support8.68.1
Meets requirements9.09.4
NPS46.15384676.785714
Small Business14.3%39.8%
Mid-Market64.3%39.8%
Enterprise21.4%20.4%
Total page views1701,370
Total LLM citations6057,495

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) is purpose-built to protect your web, mobile, and API applications from today’s most advanced threats. It helps prevent data breaches and ensures business continuity by blocking OWASP Top 10 attacks, L4–L7 DDoS, zero-day exploits, and more. With Advanced Bot Protection powered by cloud-based machine learning, Barracuda WAF detects and stops malicious bots responsible for web scraping, credential stuffing, and account takeover attempts—before they can do damage.

Pros

  • Cybersecurity
  • SSL Encryption
  • Management Efficiency
  • Configuration Ease
  • Setup Ease
  • Features

F5 NGINX

NGINX, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.

Pros

  • Configuration Ease