Citrix Gateway vs. Google Chrome

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Citrix Gateway
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Citrix Gateway (or Citrix NetScaler Gateway) is an access gateway with SSL VPN solution, providing single sign-on (SSO) and authentication for remote end users of network assets.
$995
per month
Google Chrome
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Google Chrome is a web browser with features like password saving, synced settings across devices, dark mode, and the ability to keep accounts separate using different profiles. For enterprises, Chrome has built-in and added browser controls to protect your business for external and internal threats.
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Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Citrix GatewayGoogle Chrome
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe price for a Citrix Gateway (VPX) perpetual license is $995.00. You must contact the sales team for subscription license pricing.
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User Ratings
Citrix GatewayGoogle Chrome
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(13 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Citrix GatewayGoogle Chrome
Likelihood to Recommend
Citrix
We have a hybrid team, and Citrix Gateway is helpful for ensuring secure access to our business apps, no matter the location. In addition, the tool ensures our teams can remotely access business resources and work from any location. It connects teams to resources distributed across cloud and on-premises data centers, ensuring maximum team productivity.
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Google
Chrome is super well-suited to people who use Android phones, have limited experience with internet browsers, are intimidated by new technology, and are other language learners or tech learners. Chrome is less well-suited to people who are highly experienced and have strong opinions about their browsers, and to those with greater integration with Apple or other non-Google systems.
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Pros
Citrix
  • Very clean landing page
  • Easy connection to Okta
  • One-size-fits-all accessibility for different app assignment needs
  • Very clean and easy to understand settings page
  • Quick Access favourites page
  • Ability to link webpages as well as applications from the admin end for selected users
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Google
  • Security: Google Chrome is constantly updated to resolve any interoperability and or security issues.
  • Full App Integration: Apps and services can be quickly and easily pushed out to all users. Uniformity across Chrome ensures a repeatable user experience.
  • Portability and consistent environment: By hosting all services and apps remotely, users can have access to their information and communication from almost any device that has internet connectivity.
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Cons
Citrix
  • I suggest make it more faster because sometimes its lagging but not all the time.
  • When it comes to Notepad I suggest having options for the size of fonts, and color of fonts, to make it look nicer.
  • I suggest making it more user-friendly, and more features so that users can perfectly maximize this tool.
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Google
  • Alerting when bookmark links are broken
  • Better themes; there's great groundwork, but horribly barren and lack of quality options
  • Better tracking/security transparency with its users
  • Alert when cache slowing down performance, and quick navigation to clear this for the less tech-savvy.
  • Allowing file name edits within the quick-access download dropdown, without having to have this fully on or off, or having to navigate outside of Google Chrome
  • Embedded suggestion for quick-access extensions on homepage (with option to remove suggestions easily), for ad-blocking, accessibility, etc.
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Usability
Citrix
Citrix is a visually very clean platform, allowing for ease of use from even the least tech-savvy. That being said, the apps crashes a lot (scheduled or otherwise), and apps very often refuse to open from the dashboard, making for a frustrating/confusing experience from those who have not yet experienced these same issues daily for years now. The launcher app (for MacBook) leaves a lot to be desired in terms of both setup and daily use, making the web version more viable. First-time users are also often confused on what Citrix is - and how each app connects in order to open a program (explaining "log into Citrix on the web, then download the launcher app, then launch the Spectra app via Citrix web, which will open in the Citrix launcher app on your laptop to launch the app, but you have to paste in the URL again and log in again to access" is a handful)
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Google
As mentioned earlier, it is a worldwide standard. It matches both the Platforms - Windows and iOS. Pages load quickly, and the website's presentation is impeccable. It needs to seamlessly integrate Google Gemini into Google Chrome. Overall, I will give 10/10 to the designer of Google Chrome.
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Support Rating
Citrix
Support is pretty good and pretty fast to respond. I can't say I can really complain about the support experience I've had with them, as they've resolved issues within a reasonable time-frame. Of course, they could always be faster and better, but I think for what we pay, it's well worth the money.
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Alternatives Considered
Citrix
We chose Citrix Netscaler Gateway for its wide market presence and its great experience over time. Although the implementation time may be longer than in the other solutions, I think the results are better and it allows configuration with greater capacity than the others. The cost is similar in all the solutions seen.
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Google
Only Firefox comes close. Google Chrome is leaps and bounds above anything Microsoft has ever done in the browser space. Microsoft has lagged behind with Edge for years and continues to supply a subpar browsing experience. Google Chrome has the speed and the features to make it the best in the industry and it continues to go above and beyond where others do not keep up. With Gemini AI added, this will only continue to get better.
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Return on Investment
Citrix
  • we moved from Cisco to Citrix VPN, and no longer had to worry about certificate issues
  • profile issues from Cisco were no longer a problem with Citrix.
  • the amount of time PER VPN call dropped significantly in the internal helpdesk, however, the volume of calls stayed the same.
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Google
  • Because Google Chrome is a tool that has it all our people dont have to switch in browser they can use only Google Chrome what saves time
  • Because of the single use of Google Chrome our Servicedesk has to just know one application and we get half the tickets if you got 2 standard browsers.
  • Because Google Chrome is owned by Google it automaticly is very secure what retuns means Google Chrome has a good security. Which lead to lower security incidents
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