Kong Konnect vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kong Konnect
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Kong Inc. is a cloud connectivity company headquartered in San Francisco. They are the creator and primary supporter of Kong, the open-source Microservice API gateway, and offer Kong Konnect, an enterprise-tier platform that delivers connectivity and visibility for services in multi-cloud environments.
$250
per month
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 KonnectNGINX Plus
Editions & Modules
Plus
$250
Service/Month
Enterprise
Custom
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kong KonnectNGINX Plus
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Features
Kong KonnectNGINX Plus
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Kong Konnect
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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 KonnectNGINX 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 KonnectNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
Kong, Inc
Using Kong [Konnect]'s declarative settings, a user may control traffic, automate deployment, and maintain container-based software after it's deployed. In addition, it handles the whole lifecycle of service management. Installation, management, and operation of Kong [Konnects]'s cloud-native connection runtimes may be performed in any cloud or Kubernetes provider environment, as well as on-premises environments. In order to optimise their services and transactions, users may keep track of their services and transactions in real-time via real-time monitoring.
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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.
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Pros
Kong, Inc
  • Application orchestration
  • Error tracing
  • Analyzing traffic
  • Load balancing
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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Cons
Kong, Inc
  • Community support
  • Sample projects for easy integration
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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
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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.
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Usability
Kong, Inc
No answers on this topic
F5
Very easy to use
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
Kong, Inc
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F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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Return on Investment
Kong, Inc
  • Increased application efficiency
  • Reduced system downtown
  • Significantly improved error resolution
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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.
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