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Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
Score 9.9 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 8.6 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
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
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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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
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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User Ratings
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(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
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.
Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Chaudhari
Head of Engineering & Founding team member
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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
Kong, Inc
  • Mapping requests to back-end services
  • Plugins for almost everything
  • It's super fast
Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Chaudhari
Head of Engineering & Founding team member
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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Cons
Kong, Inc
No answers on this topic
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
Kong, Inc
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
Kong, Inc
No answers on this topic
F5
Very easy to use
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
Kong, Inc
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
Kong, Inc
We haven't used anything else.
Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Chaudhari
Head of Engineering & Founding team member
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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
Kong, Inc
No answers on this topic
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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