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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetScaler

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANetScaler ADC is an application delivery controller.N/A

    NGINX Plus

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANGINX 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
    NetScalerNGINX 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
    NetScalerNGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    NetScalerNGINX Plus
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
    No answer on this topic
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    NetScalerNGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NetScaler and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    NetScaler
    -
    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    1% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    NetScalerNGINX Plus
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NetScalerNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (26 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (4 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
    NetScalerNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloud Software Group
    Citrix Netscaler can be a powerful network appliance for environments that are fully committed and open to utilizing a network appliance that isn't made by a traditional network vendor. Administrator user experience has improved over the years and will continue to improve with the flexibility of virtual and physical appliances available for medium and large enterprises.
    Incentivized
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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
    Cloud Software Group
    • Flexibility. NetScaler assumes its admins know a bit about networking and in-depth details surrounding the applications they are configuring access for/to. This being so, the range of configuration options is very broad allowing various versions' combinations of protocol patterns, expressions, rules etc., all to the benefit of the admin.
    • Granularity. Having such a broad range of configuration options available, while still allowing simple options to be configured simply. The GUI is well-stylized and navigation has a good flow.
    • Ease of control. For load-balancing of simple services right out of the box, NetScaler makes it pretty easy, compared to the range of options available in the surrounding GUI and under the hood.
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cloud Software Group
    • The documentation could use an overhaul with specific examples related to the command line as well as GUI. Explanations in the documentation would also be helpful.
    • Being able to have more than just one routing table would allow the ability to leverage security.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloud Software Group
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cloud Software Group
    I gave the NetScaler a 7 here because the system once configured and deployed is very easy to use. However, if you did not deploy the system and do not have the fundamental background knowledge then you will have trouble using the product in general. Overall it is a great product and service but does typically require professional services to be deployed.
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    F5
    Very easy to use
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    Support Rating
    Cloud Software Group
    Overall, our organization's experience with Citrix support is that support can be hit or miss. Oftentimes it takes multiple attempts and much longer than desirable to obtain a viable solution for issues experienced with their products. It would be great to see Citrix invest time, effort, and almighty dollars into improving their support and bug fix process across the board.
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloud Software Group
    easy to use and setup and reliable. Once the configuration was setup and running this has been really useful and easy to maintain. The other solutions seemed overly complicated and difficult to configure and get up and running with the security that we required
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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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    Return on Investment
    Cloud Software Group
    • We had this set up before COVID and it saved us. We just added user licenses and scaled out our citrix farm and IT sat back and just monitored users from home.
    • Scales up and out with ease
    • Challenging to find NetScaler experts for advanced features you want to enable and use
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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