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WAF

Score 20.0 / 100 17 providers +5 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (17)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5ApplicationSecurityLoad BalancingAPI Gateway8 APIs64.7Amazon WAFBot ManagementDDoS ProtectionSecurity1 API57.1
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Google Cloud ArmorDDoS ProtectionFirewallGoogle CloudSecurity1 API45.1ImpervaSecurityCybersecurityDDoS Protection2 APIs42.8Traefik LabsAI GatewayAPI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API42.5WallarmAPI SecuritySecurity TestingCybersecurity1 API42.0Bunny.netCDNEdgeVideoStorage1 API39.5Azure Front DoorCDNEdgeGlobal RoutingLoad Balancing2 APIs39.3
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
ArcjetSecurityRate LimitingBot Detection1 API39.1QuantCDNCDNEdgeStatic HostingJAMstack1 API38.4Azure Application GatewayLayer-7Load BalancingReverse Proxy2 APIs38.0Check PointCloud SecurityCybersecurityEndpoint SecurityFirewall5 APIs36.4SafeLineProxySecurityOpen-Source1 API33.7Chaitin TechSecurityWeb Application FirewallCybersecurity6 APIs33.1
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Impart SecurityCompanySecurityAPI SecurityRuntime Protection1 API22.6ChinaCache (EdgeNext)CompanyCDNEdge ComputingCloud Security1 API17.8Signal SciencesCompanySecurityWeb Application Firewall1 API11.7

APIs with this tag (12)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Appwrite Firewall (WAF) APIAppwrite Firewall — traffic control and WAF rules for a project, announced 2026-09-04. 13 operations across...80.1
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5 Essential App Protect APIAPI for managing F5's application security services including WAF policies, bot defense, and API protection.64.7OCI Web Application Firewall APIREST APIs for managing web application firewall policies that protect applications from malicious and unwan...62.3Oracle Waf APIThe waf API from Oracle — 15 operation(s) for waf.62.3Azure Web Application Firewall APICloud-native web application firewall service that provides centralized protection for web applications fro...56.8
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
CloudGuard Waf APIWAF Protection53.2Traefik Hub API GatewayCommercial Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Traefik Proxy. Adds a native WAF (claimed 23x faster than...42.5Bunny.net Shield APISecurity and WAF configuration API for Bunny Shield - managed rules, custom rules, bot detection, rate-limi...39.5
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Check Point CloudGuard WAF APIManagement API for the CloudGuard WAF cloud-native web application and API protection product.36.4SafeLine MCP ServerSafeLine provides two MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server implementations for AI-assisted WAF management: a...33.7AWS WAFV2 APIREST API for creating and managing web ACLs, rule groups, IP sets, regex pattern sets, and logging configur...31.5
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Signal Sciences Core APIThe Signal Sciences Core API (now the Fastly Next-Gen WAF control-plane API) is a REST API served at https:...11.7

Companies reaching this through an API (5)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “WAF” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Appwrite AWS WAF Azure Networking Services CloudGuard Oracle

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
42.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DDoS Protection 7 co-occurrences Web Application Firewall 6 co-occurrences API Security 6 co-occurrences CDN 5 co-occurrences DNS 5 co-occurrences Management 5 co-occurrences Security 15 co-occurrences

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