F5 Load Balancer Plans Pricing
F5 BIG-IP iControl REST, AS3, and Declarative Onboarding APIs are management interfaces shipped with BIG-IP appliances/VEs and consumed by the customer in their own deployment; there is no public per-call API price. F5 prices the underlying BIG-IP product through enterprise channels — Subscription (1/2/3-year terms), Perpetual (GBB), Flex Consumption Program (3- or 5-year annual commitments), or via local resellers. A 30-day free trial is available.
F5 Load Balancer Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for F5 Load Balancer on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 4 plans, covering freemium, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including 30-Day Free Trial, Subscription, Perpetual (Good-Better-Best / GBB), Flex Consumption Program (FCP).
Tagged areas include Application Delivery, BIG-IP, Load Balancer, Networking, and Traffic Management.
Plans
Self-service evaluation of BIG-IP for up to 30 days in the customer's environment.
- F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API
- F5 BIG-IP AS3 API
- F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding API
- Self-service evaluation
1-, 2-, or 3-year term subscription for a specified number of BIG-IP instances. Includes maintenance and support; optional self-licensing.
- 1/2/3-year terms
- Maintenance & Support
- Version updates
- F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API
- F5 BIG-IP AS3 API
- F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding API
Perpetual licenses, individually or bundled. Licenses remain valid for the product's lifetime.
- Lifetime validity
- GBB bundles
- Optional support contract
- F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API
- F5 BIG-IP AS3 API
- F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding API
3- or 5-year annual spending commitment that adjusts yearly based on actual usage. Covers deployable software and SaaS/managed services with premium support.
- 3- or 5-year commitment
- Annual usage true-up
- Premium Support
- Software upgrades
- Activity reporting
- F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API
- F5 BIG-IP AS3 API
- F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding API