AWS WAF vs Sucuri
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of AWS WAF and Sucuri built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose AWS WAF if…
Filtering traffic that already passes through CloudFront, an Application Load Balancer or API Gateway, where the WAF attaches to what you have rather than fronting it. $5 a web ACL, $1 a rule, $0.60 a million requests, prorated hourly with no commitment.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Sucuri if…
One site, one annual price, and somebody else cleaning up the malware. $229 a year covers the firewall, a CDN and cleanups, with a 24/7 security team on every tier and no request metering at all.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- AWS WAF: You want one bill. Charges are explicitly in addition to CloudFront, Cognito, ALB, API Gateway, AppSync or Shield Advanced — it cannot be bought alone — and a noisy ruleset produces a second bill in CloudWatch once logging passes 500 MB per million requests.
- Sucuri: You run more than one site. The platform plans cover a single site and 2-5 sites means the $999.98 Junior Dev plan, so three sites cost more than four times the single-site price.
2 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
AWS WAF 0
Sucuri 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | AWS WAF | Sucuri |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Entry paid plan | $5 a month per web ACL, prorated hourly, before a single rule or request. One rule takes it to $6 and the first million requests to $6.60 — and all of that is in addition to the bill for whatever it is protecting. | $229 a year for the Basic Platform — roughly $19 a month, but billed annually and per site rather than per request or per rule. Pro is $339 and Business $549, the difference being malware cleanup response time and scan frequency rather than capacity. |
| Pricing model | Three meters: $5 per web ACL a month, $1 per rule a month, and $0.60 per million requests inspected at up to 48 KB each. Managed rule groups cost $10 a month each on top, and the anti-DDoS managed rule is $20. Everything is prorated hourly and there are no upfront commitments. | Per site, per year, with no request metering at all. What the tiers buy is service rather than throughput: occasional cleanups on Basic, faster SSL transfers on Pro, fastest malware-cleanup response and more frequent scans on Business. A 30-day guarantee applies and the platform is described as agnostic to the host. |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- AWS WAF
- $5 a month per web ACL, prorated hourly, before a single rule or request. One rule takes it to $6 and the first million requests to $6.60 — and all of that is in addition to the bill for whatever it is protecting.
- Sucuri
- $229 a year for the Basic Platform — roughly $19 a month, but billed annually and per site rather than per request or per rule. Pro is $339 and Business $549, the difference being malware cleanup response time and scan frequency rather than capacity.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- AWS Price List — AWS WAF, us-east-1 ↗
“$5.00 per web ACL created (prorated hourly)”
Read 2026-09-15 · official docs
- Sucuri Website Firewall ↗
“$ 229 /yr Buy Now”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Pricing model
- AWS WAF
- Three meters: $5 per web ACL a month, $1 per rule a month, and $0.60 per million requests inspected at up to 48 KB each. Managed rule groups cost $10 a month each on top, and the anti-DDoS managed rule is $20. Everything is prorated hourly and there are no upfront commitments.
- Sucuri
- Per site, per year, with no request metering at all. What the tiers buy is service rather than throughput: occasional cleanups on Basic, faster SSL transfers on Pro, fastest malware-cleanup response and more frequent scans on Business. A 30-day guarantee applies and the platform is described as agnostic to the host.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- AWS Price List — AWS WAF, us-east-1 ↗
“$0.60 per million requests processed (48KB)”
Read 2026-09-15 · official docs
- Sucuri Website Firewall ↗
“30-Day Guarantee Platform Agnostic 24/7 Security Team”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: AWS WAF or Sucuri?
AWS WAF: $5 a month per web ACL, prorated hourly, before a single rule or request. One rule takes it to $6 and the first million requests to $6.60 — and all of that is in addition to the bill for whatever it is protecting.
Sucuri: $229 a year for the Basic Platform — roughly $19 a month, but billed annually and per site rather than per request or per rule. Pro is $339 and Business $549, the difference being malware cleanup response time and scan frequency rather than capacity.
Should I choose AWS WAF or Sucuri?
Pick AWS WAF if Filtering traffic that already passes through CloudFront, an Application Load Balancer or API Gateway, where the WAF attaches to what you have rather than fronting it. $5 a web ACL, $1 a rule, $0.60 a million requests, prorated hourly with no commitment.
Pick Sucuri if One site, one annual price, and somebody else cleaning up the malware. $229 a year covers the firewall, a CDN and cleanups, with a 24/7 security team on every tier and no request metering at all.