--- title: Fastly's Web Application and API Security Reviews meta\_title: 'Fastly''s Web Application and API Security Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 30 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Fastly's Web Application and API Security works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 30 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: "DevSecOps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t" url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops --- # Fastly's Web Application and API Security Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Fastly's Web Application and API Security but has limited features. Are you part of the Fastly's Web Application and API Security team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Fastly’s AppSec solutions empower teams to mitigate threats and control bots while helping the business move faster, confidently. Protect Your Apps and APIs While Accelerating Growth with Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, API Security, and more. Our solutions are designed to help you stop cyber threats from derailing your biggest moments, accelerate innovation while minimizing new risk, and govern bots without increasing user friction. * * * Seller [Fastly](https://www.g2.com/sellers/fastly) Discussions [Fastly's Web Application and API Security Community](https://www.g2.com/products/fastly-s-web-application-and-api-security/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Julie Rockett Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/fastly-s-web-application-and-api-security/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cloudflare Application Security and Performance") Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 4.5/5(698) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) [ ![Wiz](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wiz") Wiz 4.7/5(842) ](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) [ ![HAProxy](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "HAProxy") HAProxy 4.7/5(912) ](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/fastly-s-web-application-and-api-security/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 30 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Fastly's Web Application and API Security Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloud-development-kit-aws-cdk/reviews) Show More ![Vladimir M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vladimir M.") VM Vladimir M. Senior Integration Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/9/2026 "Perfect API Protection" 5/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Protect API for my project! Perfect product no complains Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? No any complaints abot product, fast and efficient product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? API security protection that’s very convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MB Mason B. Customer Service Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/14/2023 "Unreliable Security, Slow Support" 0.5/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? It is unable to provide protection, for applications through its poor web application firewall (WAF), and the configuring rules and potential cost increases are difficult. There are also drawbacks related to monitoring data traffic and vulnerabilities to security issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? The user interface of Fastly Next Gen WAF is overwhelming and cumbersome to navigate. Its design lacks working making it time consuming to set up and manage rules. The customer support teams responsiveness is also lacking, which makes it difficult to obtain assistance, for refining configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Fastly Next Gen WAF solves the issue of security by providing poor time analytical reporting. The lack of documentation hinders the optimization of the capabilities provided by the WAF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shakir K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shakir K.") SK Shakir K. Senior Broadcast and streaming engineer, Network operation Centre (NOC) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/24/2024 "It’s an easy to use and provides the better security to application, API and devops environment" 5/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? It's very easy to use. It can handle all types of attack over applications, devops environments and API wherever it's located Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? As of now nothing as it's a robust solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? After applying the fastly next gen wef you can sleep peacefully as it can handle all of the attacks either it's an injection style or it's a credential stuffing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SO Slobodan O. Advisor Food & Beverages Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/9/2023 "SSO integration with high pricing" 3/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Gen WAF provides Single Sign On (SSO) integration. Having all management tasks, in one place is an advantage for me. But prices are high which is its drawback. It is not good enough for securing our web application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? There is the availability of documentation and tutorials. This make it difficult for users to fully utilize all the features and capabilities provided by Fastly Next Gen WAF. These limitations potentially stops its reliability in safeguarding against emerging threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? The support teams response time for configuration refinements is slow causing delays in issue resolution. Fastly Next Gen WAF monitors the issue of security rules by providing real time analytical reporting but its costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Avinash A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Avinash A.") AA Avinash A. Network Security Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/24/2023 "Good SAAS in the Market with advance threat management and application security." 4/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? We use Next GEN WAF and BotProtection services in our Company its fast and reliable service when coming to support the product and I really like this compre to the old F5 WAF/ASM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? The Intigarion between the internal apps would be more ease and open source. also, intigrating the sso would be more reliable and all managment would be in one place. apart from traditional firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? We have huge set of HealthCare data being manged in our data center and we use Fastly to filter the traffic incoming to our webserver. We have used this and saved a lot of code inejections and other http injections into our date center and saved from Vulnerbilites. I have these tagged to solarWinds and helpful to find the support ids and easy fetch to resolve the tagging and blockage part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AK Anandb K. Team Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/18/2023 "Excellent WAF tool for complete piece of Mind" 4/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? It provides excellent security to web applications from different types of attack. It provides highly customizable filters that can be configured in no time based on requirement, also it has excellent customer support that will help to define rules/ policy quickly.in my project i have used this to safeguard applications from CORS attacks, SQL injection, DDos etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Pricing can be little con for small projects. As sime complex config changes require tech support help, that will incur more charges. As i have insurance project, pricing is no issue for my client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? It provides easily configurable filters that helps to define rules & policy quickly. It has complete web security package to safeguard our web application from multiple types of attack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Hanna m.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hanna m.") HM Hanna m. SEO Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/21/2023 "Simplifies & Streamlines Our Process" 3/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Fastly Origin Connect allows us to use the event monitoring feature and have a full view of our traffic during promotions, site launches, etc. It also allows us to quickly find and troubleshoot any errors with traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? With what I use Fastly for, I do not have any dislikes of the service. It's simple to use and we've never run into any issues with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Fastly allows us to monitor data and responses in real-time for any of our domains all in one place. I can say that our team is more productive using this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![ansuman s.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ansuman s.") AS ansuman s. Security Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/28/2023 "Best suited web application firewall for modern day cyber attacks" 5/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Best in class dashboard suited for detailed display of web application attacks and DDos attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Nothing as such . Nothing comes to my mind as dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? The custom signals and the threshold blocking signatures are a great benefit when it comes to weighing the availability of services against security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Likitha K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Likitha K.") LK Likitha K. Training Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/16/2023 "Next-Gen WAF can now be deployed in different ways" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Its easy to deploy and we have control over the data that we share Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Issue with monitoring data traffic and it can be vulnerable for security issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Its providing a web interface which is user friendly. It also allows you to create multiple workspaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/18/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SS sumit s. Network Security Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/17/2023 "DDoS Mitigation at Ease" 5/5 What do you like best about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Here are some points below that I like about DDoS mitigation: 1. Behavior-based detection for the highest accuracy. 2. Early detection of network abuse and intrusion in peacetime. 3. Most granular SLA - Fastest DDoS attack mitigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Fastly's Web Application and API Security? Dislike about the DDoS is that the tech support is not supportive, Response time is higher than usual, and Licensing cost is very high compared to other products. So these are some pain points of the customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Fastly's Web Application and API Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Inspection and detection are excellent, and they take action per the policy, which makes the environment attack; free implementation is also very smooth; all the points mentioned in the installation guide make for smooth performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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