F5 WAF for NGINX
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Plans and prices
From F5 WAF for NGINX's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| F5 WAF for NGINX subscription | Priced on request | pricing varies by deployment size · covered environments · required features |
The facts
Each one read from F5 WAF for NGINX's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Attack signatures
- The product includes predefined attack signatures that can be applied to requests and responses.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Bot defense
- Bot signatures inspect User-Agent headers and request URIs, and bot defense is enabled by default with header-anomaly detection.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Core protection
- It protects against the OWASP Top 10 and provides HTTP response inspection, protocol compliance, JSON and XML schema validation, meta character checking, and disallowed file-type controls.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Current version
- The latest documented F5 WAF for NGINX version is 5.15.0.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- It supports virtual machine or bare-metal, Docker, and Kubernetes deployments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Ingress integration
- With NGINX Ingress Controller, WAF policies can be applied to VirtualServer, VirtualServerRoute, and Ingress resources through Policy resources referencing WAF bundles or bundle sources.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integration limitation
- NGINX subrequest-dependent features such as ExternalAuth, APIKey, remote-JWKS JWT, OIDC, and cache background updates may not function as expected when used with F5 WAF for NGINX on the same route.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Management API
- NGINX Instance Manager provides a REST API for managing WAF policies, log profiles, attack signatures, bot signatures, and threat campaigns across instances.checked 30 Sep 2026
- NGINX integration
- F5 WAF for NGINX runs natively on NGINX Plus and NGINX Ingress Controller and is included in NGINX One premium packages.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- F5 WAF for NGINX is an advanced, lightweight, high-performance web application firewall for applications and APIs.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Resource limit
- F5 WAF for NGINX supports a maximum of 127 CPU cores.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Installation, troubleshooting, and usage assistance is provided through the MyF5 Customer Portal.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Supported systems
- Supported operating systems include Alpine Linux 3.22 and 3.24, Amazon Linux 2023, Debian 12 and 13, Oracle Linux 8, RHEL/Rocky Linux 8–10, and Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Threat intelligence
- Threat campaigns provide frequently updated contextual feeds about active attack campaigns observed by F5 Threat Labs.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1996checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
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