Kong Gateway OSS vs. NGINX Plus
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Kong Gateway OSS | Score10 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 | Score8.6 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 |
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Would buy again 6 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 6 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 83% Happy with the feature set 5 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 80% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 4 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Implementation went as expected 5 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | NGINX Score9.1 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | No answers on this topic | Oracle WebLogic Server Score7.3 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Oracle SOA Suite Score8 out of 10 | NGINX Score9.1 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 8.3 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.1 |
| Usability | - | 7.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 9.1 |
| Online Training | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 9.1 |
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