Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Name: Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Brand: Fastly
Rating: 4.8 (568 reviews)

Leader

Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables the best of the web to thrive, and helps you deliver better online experiences.

Est 2011|Valuation $2.9B|Raised $686.4M

LinkedIn 72K|Website|Web traffic 268K|FTEs 1,140|HQ San Francisco, California, US

MarketsWeb Application & API Protection (WAAP)Firewalls

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Where Fastly tends to provide advantages: - Deployment options across edge, cloud-hosted, and on-premises with a centralized control plane. - Integration patterns that align with platform and developer processes, according to vendor and analyst discussions. - Ongoing API and automation investments that expand analytics, reporting, and alerting capabilities. Where competitors often provide advantages: - Cloudflare: often selected for organizations seeking broad consolidation of edge and security features with published pricing for many plans. - AWS/Azure WAF: often selected when buyers prioritize native cloud integrations, procurement simplicity within a single cloud provider, and usage-based pricing. - Akamai/Imperva/F5: selected by very large enterprises with complex security programs that require deep feature sets at scale. Pricing comparison reality: - Fastly: sales engagement required for pricing, which can be a barrier for small teams seeking immediate evaluation. - Cloudflare/AWS: more straightforward entry points via published pricing, though enterprise features remain contract-dependent.

	Fastly Next-Gen WAF	Cloudflare WAF	AWS WAF
Starting Price	Not publicly listed (requires sales engagement)	Public self-serve tiers available; pricing varies by plan	Public list pricing based on Web ACLs, rules, and request volume (varies by region/usage)
Typical Fit	Hybrid/edge/core deployments; teams seeking Signal Sciences-style signal-based WAAP	Organizations seeking an integrated edge platform combining CDN and multiple security features	AWS-centric workloads requiring native controls and usage-based cost models
Key Strength	Support for multiple deployment models with a common control plane and signal sharing across environments	Broad platform functionality (CDN + WAF + bot management + edge compute) and self-serve pricing options	Tight integration with AWS services and predictable usage-based pricing
Key Weakness	Pricing visibility is limited; some advanced features vary by deployment method (for example, WebSocket inspection)	Some advanced features require plan upgrades and product complexity can increase with scale	Tuning and rule management can be operationally intensive compared with specialized WAAP vendors

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Where Fastly tends to provide advantages:

Deployment options across edge, cloud-hosted, and on-premises with a centralized control plane.
Integration patterns that align with platform and developer processes, according to vendor and analyst discussions.
Ongoing API and automation investments that expand analytics, reporting, and alerting capabilities.

Where competitors often provide advantages:

Cloudflare: often selected for organizations seeking broad consolidation of edge and security features with published pricing for many plans.
AWS/Azure WAF: often selected when buyers prioritize native cloud integrations, procurement simplicity within a single cloud provider, and usage-based pricing.
Akamai/Imperva/F5: selected by very large enterprises with complex security programs that require deep feature sets at scale.

Pricing comparison reality:

Fastly: sales engagement required for pricing, which can be a barrier for small teams seeking immediate evaluation.
Cloudflare/AWS: more straightforward entry points via published pricing, though enterprise features remain contract-dependent.

	Fastly Next-Gen WAF	Cloudflare WAF	AWS WAF
Starting Price	Not publicly listed (requires sales engagement)	Public self-serve tiers available; pricing varies by plan	Public list pricing based on Web ACLs, rules, and request volume (varies by region/usage)
Typical Fit	Hybrid/edge/core deployments; teams seeking Signal Sciences-style signal-based WAAP	Organizations seeking an integrated edge platform combining CDN and multiple security features	AWS-centric workloads requiring native controls and usage-based cost models
Key Strength	Support for multiple deployment models with a common control plane and signal sharing across environments	Broad platform functionality (CDN + WAF + bot management + edge compute) and self-serve pricing options	Tight integration with AWS services and predictable usage-based pricing
Key Weakness	Pricing visibility is limited; some advanced features vary by deployment method (for example, WebSocket inspection)	Some advanced features require plan upgrades and product complexity can increase with scale	Tuning and rule management can be operationally intensive compared with specialized WAAP vendors