Gcore WAAP vs SafeLine

Gcore WAAP protects websites, web applications, and APIs against threats including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and API abuse. It is a SaaS reverse proxy that can sit before a CDN or origin and forward clean traffic onward. Its edge firewall blocks OWASP Top 10 risks, zero-day patterns, and suspicious behavior. Bot Management can admit trusted bots and AI agents, challenge suspicious traffic, and stop abusive automation. API protection includes discovery, schema validation, anomaly detection, and sensitive-data detection. The service also automatically mitigates application-layer DDoS attacks at the edge; Gcore states detection is sub-second. WAAP works with any CDN and supports multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and customer data centers. Gcore lists 210+ edge PoPs, 200 Tbps of DDoS filtering capacity, and a 99% platform uptime SLA. The Free plan covers one domain and 0.5M requests; Start costs €25 a month for five domains and 1M requests. Prices exclude VAT, and plans have quotas and overage charges.

SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall and reverse proxy that filters traffic between web applications and the internet. Its Nginx-based design is described as blocking malicious HTTP traffic, with protection listed for SQL injection, XSS, code injection, XXE, SSRF and path traversal. Anti-bot challenges aim to distinguish human visitors from crawlers and bots, while rate limiting addresses DoS attacks, brute-force attempts, traffic surges and other abuse. A dynamic protection feature encrypts HTML and JavaScript from the web server on each visit. Listed integrations include an MCP Server for AI-assisted management, an Ingress-NGINX plugin for Kubernetes ingress, and a Kong Gateway plugin for APIs and services. Installation instructions call for Docker and Docker Compose V2 on the host. The repository identifies the license as GPL-3.0. SafeLine lists Linux, self-hosted and web platforms. Its Personal plan costs nothing, billed forever, for up to 10 apps. Lite is $10 a month, and Pro is $100 a month. Ultimate pricing is custom and billed annually. A seven-day trial is listed.