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Index › IT › Products › F5 Web App & API Protection · November 2026 Edition

Web application firewalls · Named, not ranked

F5 Web App & API Protection

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–Too few to rank

2/14Models named it

0First choices

0Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inWeb application firewalls #40 mid-market

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. F5 Web App & API Protection has 1.

Why models recommend it

“Choose F5 or Imperva if you need enterprise-grade hybrid WAAP capabilities.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as F5 Web App & API Protection, over the 2 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Akamai App & API Protector	2	1	View →
Cloudflare WAF	2	1	View →
Imperva Cloud WAF	2	1	View →
Fortinet FortiWeb	2	0	View →
AWS WAF	1	0	View →
Azure Web Application Firewall	1	0	View →
Check Point	1	0	View →
Fastly Next-Gen WAF	1	0	View →
Radware Cloud WAF	1	0	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on F5 Web App & API Protection's own site, not checked by Gane.

Also from F5: F5 BIG-IP LTM, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, F5 BIG-IP VE, F5 Bot Defense, F5 Distributed Cloud API Security, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense and 2 more

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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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named F5 Web App & API Protection came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 2 of the 2 answers that named F5 Web App & API Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fastly.com2

imperva.com2

akamai.com1

cdn.studio.f5.comIts own site1

checkpoint.com1

developers.cloudflare.com1

expertinsights.com1

f5.comIts own site1

fortinet.com1

g2.com1

Ten of the twelve domain citations in answers naming F5 Web App & API Protection came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

akamai.com/site/it/documents/analyst-report/2024/2024-idc-waap-marketscape-report.pdf1

cdn.studio.f5.com/files/k6fem79d/production/91ecfc4fbd45eb5d10f4b11100ecf956f13895b8.pdf1

checkpoint.com/cyber-hub/cloud-security/what-is-web-application-firewall/the-top-5-waf-pro1

developers.cloudflare.com/waf1

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-web-application-firewalls1

f5.com/products/waf1

fastly.com/blog/best-waf-solutions-2025-20261

fastly.com/blog/imperva-alternatives1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on F5 Web App & API Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0