F5 Networks Plans Pricing
F5's broader product family (BIG-IP, BIG-IQ, NGINX Plus / Management Suite / One Console / Ingress Controller, Distributed Cloud, App Protect) is sold through enterprise channels — Subscription (1/2/3-year terms), Perpetual (GBB), or Flex Consumption Program (3- or 5-year annual commitments). Distributed Cloud is consumption-based with metered services. NGINX Plus has a published per-instance list price model but most enterprise pricing is quoted via sales. Public list pricing is not maintained for the full portfolio.
F5 Networks Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for F5 Networks on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering freemium, subscription, enterprise, and usage-based tiers, with named plans including 30-Day Free Trial, Subscription, Perpetual (Good-Better-Best / GBB), Flex Consumption Program (FCP), F5 Distributed Cloud — Usage.
Tagged areas include API Gateway, Application Delivery, Automation, Edge Computing, and Kubernetes.
Plans
Self-service evaluation across F5 product lines (BIG-IP, NGINX Plus, App Protect, Distributed Cloud free tier).
- F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API
- F5 NGINX Plus API
- F5 Distributed Cloud API (free tier)
- F5 Essential App Protect API
1-, 2-, or 3-year term subscription. Includes maintenance and support.
- 1/2/3-year terms
- Maintenance & Support
- Version updates
- BIG-IP, BIG-IQ, NGINX Plus, App Protect modules
Perpetual licensing. Lifetime license validity for selected services and instance counts.
- Lifetime validity
- GBB bundles
- Optional support contract
3- or 5-year annual spending commitment for deployable software and SaaS/managed services (including Distributed Cloud). Yearly true-up against actual usage.
- 3- or 5-year commitment
- Annual usage true-up
- Premium Support
- Software upgrades
- Activity reporting
- Distributed Cloud Services
- NGINX One / NGINX Plus
- BIG-IP modules
Distributed Cloud (formerly Volterra) bills services like CDN, WAF, Bot Defense, DNS, and API Security on a usage basis (egress, requests, bot transactions). List rates are quoted; consumption reported in Customer 360.
- F5 Distributed Cloud API
- WAF / Bot Defense / API Security / CDN / DNS modules
Sources
- https://www.f5.com/products/get-f5
- https://www.f5.com/products/big-ip-services
- https://www.f5.com/cloud
- https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/
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