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Product	Cloudflare WAF by Cloudflare View product	Fastly Next-Gen WAF by Fastly View product
Overview
What it is	See what Cloudflare WAF offers: edge rate limiting. It is built for OWASP Top 10 vulnerability mitigation, supports cloud deployment and competes with other WAF tools.	Fastly Next-Gen WAF from Fastly focuses on Next-Gen WAF. Key capabilities: automated production blocking. Compare it with the leading WAF alternatives.
Product type	Cloud-Native Web Application Firewall (WAF)	SmartParse Runtime Application & API Web Security Platform
Best for	E-commerce, Banking, Healthcare, Government, Technology, Cross-industry, Financial Services	Financial Services, Retail, SaaS, High-Tech
Pricing
Pricing model	Contact Vendor	Contact Vendor
Free trial	Free trial: yes	Free trial: yes
Deployment
Deployment options	Cloud	Cloud
Deployment details	Cloud Edge Anycast Network; Cloud Edge Anycast Platform	Edge Cloud; Envoy/NGINX Sidecar; Kubernetes Ingress; Cloud Edge; Container Sidecar; Web Server Plugin
Data residency	Global Anycast edge (330+ cities worldwide)	Global / Edge Network
Key features
What it offers	Cloud-native edge WAF OWASP Top 10 mitigation Cloudflare Managed Rulesets Custom Wirefilter rules ML zero-day detection Edge rate limiting Real-time logs OWASP Top 10 vulnerability mitigation	SmartParse threshold detection Automated production blocking Virtually zero false positives Flexible edge/agent/sidecar deployment Next-Gen WAF Automated OWASP Top 10 blocking API security micro-firewalling
Platform & access
API access	API access: yes	API access: yes
Single sign-on (SSO)	SSO: yes	SSO: yes
Role-based access (RBAC)	RBAC: yes	RBAC: yes
Multi-tenant	Multi-tenant: yes	Multi-tenant: yes
Mobile app	Mobile app: no	Mobile app: no
Supported platforms	Web ApplicationsREST APIsE-commerce PlatformsContent Management Systems	Multi-CloudKubernetesEnvoyWeb ServersEdge
Compliance	PCI-DSS 4.0SOC 2 Type IIISO/IEC 27001HIPAAGDPR	SOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSS Level 1HIPAA
Integrations & coverage
Integrations	Cloudflare Bot ManagementAPI ShieldSplunkDatadogTerraformAWSAzure	Fastly EdgeEnvoyNGINXKubernetesAWSAzureGCP
Industries	E-commerceBankingHealthcareGovernmentTechnologyCross-industry+1 more	Financial ServicesRetailSaaSHigh-Tech
Regions	Global (330+ cities)	Global
Vendor
Company	Cloudflare	Fastly
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA	San Francisco, California, USA
Company size	5,000+	1,000+
Founded	2010	2011

Cloudflare WAF

by Cloudflare

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Fastly Next-Gen WAF

by Fastly

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Overview

What it is

Cloudflare WAF

See what Cloudflare WAF offers: edge rate limiting. It is built for OWASP Top 10 vulnerability mitigation, supports cloud deployment and competes with other WAF tools.

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF from Fastly focuses on Next-Gen WAF. Key capabilities: automated production blocking. Compare it with the leading WAF alternatives.

Product type

Cloudflare WAF

Cloud-Native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SmartParse Runtime Application & API Web Security Platform

Best for

Cloudflare WAF

E-commerce, Banking, Healthcare, Government, Technology, Cross-industry, Financial Services

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Financial Services, Retail, SaaS, High-Tech

Pricing

Pricing model

Cloudflare WAF

Contact Vendor

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contact Vendor

Free trial

Cloudflare WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Deployment

Deployment options

Cloudflare WAF

Cloud

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Cloud

Deployment details

Cloudflare WAF

Cloud Edge Anycast Network; Cloud Edge Anycast Platform

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Edge Cloud; Envoy/NGINX Sidecar; Kubernetes Ingress; Cloud Edge; Container Sidecar; Web Server Plugin

Data residency

Cloudflare WAF

Global Anycast edge (330+ cities worldwide)

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Global / Edge Network

Key features

What it offers

Cloudflare WAF

Cloud-native edge WAF
OWASP Top 10 mitigation
Cloudflare Managed Rulesets
Custom Wirefilter rules
ML zero-day detection
Edge rate limiting
Real-time logs
OWASP Top 10 vulnerability mitigation

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SmartParse threshold detection
Automated production blocking
Virtually zero false positives
Flexible edge/agent/sidecar deployment
Next-Gen WAF
Automated OWASP Top 10 blocking
API security micro-firewalling

Platform & access

API access

Cloudflare WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Single sign-on (SSO)

Cloudflare WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Role-based access (RBAC)

Cloudflare WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Multi-tenant

Cloudflare WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Mobile app

Cloudflare WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Supported platforms

Cloudflare WAF

Web ApplicationsREST APIsE-commerce PlatformsContent Management Systems

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Multi-CloudKubernetesEnvoyWeb ServersEdge

Compliance

Cloudflare WAF

PCI-DSS 4.0SOC 2 Type IIISO/IEC 27001HIPAAGDPR

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSS Level 1HIPAA

Integrations & coverage

Integrations

Cloudflare WAF

Cloudflare Bot ManagementAPI ShieldSplunkDatadogTerraformAWSAzure

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly EdgeEnvoyNGINXKubernetesAWSAzureGCP

Industries

Cloudflare WAF

E-commerceBankingHealthcareGovernmentTechnologyCross-industry+1 more

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Financial ServicesRetailSaaSHigh-Tech

Regions

Cloudflare WAF

Global (330+ cities)

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Global

Vendor

Company

Cloudflare WAF

Cloudflare

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly

Headquarters

Cloudflare WAF

San Francisco, California, USA

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

San Francisco, California, USA

Company size

Cloudflare WAF

5,000+

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

1,000+

Founded

Cloudflare WAF

2010

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

2011