---
name: F5
domain: f5.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: fraud prevention and risk management
descGrounded: 0.69
---

# F5

A multicloud application security and delivery platform selling load balancing, web application firewall, API security, and bot management to enterprises.

**Route:** surfaced by the fraud prevention and risk management lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells load balancing and application security capabilities that a buyer evaluating Stripe's infrastructure would consider when building their own payment acceptance stack, replacing the need for Stripe's managed APIs.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Application delivery and traffic management

> Web application firewall

> API security
