Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) vs. NGINX Plus

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

NGINX Plus

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) is the open source community Gateway supported by Kong, Inc, in San Francisco. Presented as the world's most popular API gateway, it is built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. Kong Gateway is also part of the Konnect platform, Kong's enterprise service offering.	N/A
NGINX Plus	Score 8.5 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

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

NGINX 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
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Additional Details

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Features

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

NGINX Plus

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) - Ratings	NGINX Plus 7.3 3 Ratings 9% below category average
IDE support	00 Ratings	7.32 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	7.72 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	6.42 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	7.72 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	6.82 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	7.72 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Oracle SOA Suite Score 8.0 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.5 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	Kong, Inc You can use Kong for simple to complex micro service back-ends. You can leverage the various categories of plugins to quickly set-up things. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	F5 I think that NGINX Plus could be used in place of a hardware load balancer and it would be light weight and easier to configure than a hardware based load balancer but in terms of usability a GUI for said load balancer would definitely help in setting up Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Kong, Inc Mapping requests to back-end services Plugins for almost everything It's super fast Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	F5 Load balancing Caching App security Boost App performance Incentivized NS Nishant Shah Senior Analyst IS Read full review
Cons	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic	F5 Update full config via api Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Kong, Inc We haven't used anything else. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	F5 The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic	F5 More uptime for business critical applications Less overhead for administrator to maintain the applications Incentivized NS Nishant Shah Senior Analyst IS Read full review
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