DDoS protection · Named, not rankedF5
F5 provides application security and delivery for hybrid multicloud environments, with offerings that include a web application firewall, API gateway and DDoS protection · f5.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. F5 has 2.
Why models recommend it
“Existing F5 shop: F5”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Highly flexible but complex to configure.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as F5, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 6 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on F5's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise
- Free plan or trial
- Start a free trial
- Customers named
- Rackspace, Docusign, Cardinal Health, HDI Sigorta, Xcel Energy, Servus Credit Union
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 10 of the 13 answers that named F5 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-three of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming F5 came from a third party's page. Three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,764 | 0 | 2026-05-12 | WAF, API gateways | |
| Glossary or explainer | 523 | 0 | 2026-03-31 | IaC, ASM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 498 | 3 | 2026-08-06 | WAF, CDN | |
| News or press | 492 | 1 | 2026-09-17 | WAF, DDoS | |
| Report or ebook | 253 | 0 | 2026-03-27 | WAF, MFA | |
| Comparison | 156 | 9 | 2026-08-18 | API management, API gateways | |
| Conference or event | 154 | 6 | 2026-09-01 | WAF, DDoS | |
| Case study | 98 | 8 | 2026-09-11 | WAF | |
| Podcast or video | 91 | 0 | 2025-11-14 | API gateways, API management | |
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2025-07-07 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17F5 positioned as market shaper in the gartner emerging market quadrant for ai application news or press
- 2026-09-11Hcww secures resilient water services in egypt with f5 adsp case study
- 2026-09-02Rackspace technology accelerates growth with f5 innovation and tools case study
- 2026-09-01Healthcare system adopts hipaa compliant ai with f5 case study
- 2026-09-01F5 to participate in upcoming financial conference 0926 conference or event
- 2026-08-31Four reasons not to miss the f5 post mythos security summit conference or event
Events in person
- September 22, 2026F5 Partner Gala DinnerReif Kushiyaki Seasons, Egypt · hosted
- September 16, 2026Accelerate & Secure Enterprise AI Pipelines with F5 and NetAppNUSS Suntec City Guild House · hosted
- September 9, 2026F5 Solution Day Riyadh 2026Movenpick Hotel and Residences Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · hosted
As the event pages on f5.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page f5.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (87); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.