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FortiWeb vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FortiWeb
Score 6.7 out of 10
N/A
FortiWeb is Fortinet's web application security system (or web application firewall, WAF) featuring advanced vulnerability management and threat detection and prevention, available in deployment as an appliance or virtual appliance, also as a hosted or a cloud-based virtual solution.N/A
NGINX Plus
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.
$849
per month billed annually
Pricing
FortiWebNGINX Plus
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FortiWebNGINX Plus
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Features
FortiWebNGINX Plus
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
FortiWeb
-
Ratings
NGINX Plus
8.1
6 Ratings
2% above category average
IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
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FortiWebNGINX Plus
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
NGINX
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Score 9.4 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Score 9.4 out of 10
NGINX
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
FortiWebNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FortiWebNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortinet
Regarding my experience, I prefer to deploy FortiWeb in a reverse proxy to have the full features and protection. The other mode will be useful for special cases as will it will not have the full range of features and protection. Like offline Sniffing, it will be used in special cases.
Mohamed Taha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohamed Taha
Cyber Security Division Manager
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F5
Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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Pros
Fortinet
  • API protection
  • Bot mitigation
  • Web application protection
  • Application delivery
Mohamed Taha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohamed Taha
Cyber Security Division Manager
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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Cons
Fortinet
  • Built-in vulnerability scanner should be better in next release
  • Predefined security policies for other web application not listed
Mohamed Taha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohamed Taha
Cyber Security Division Manager
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F5
  • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
  • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
  • GUI tool... might already be one available
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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Likelihood to Renew
Fortinet
No answers on this topic
F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
Fortinet
No answers on this topic
F5
Very easy to use
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
Fortinet
No answers on this topic
F5
We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Fortinet
Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others.
Mohamed Taha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohamed Taha
Cyber Security Division Manager
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F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Fortinet
  • ROI for last three years was 60%
Mohamed Taha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohamed Taha
Cyber Security Division Manager
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F5
  • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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