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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NGINX Ingress Controller

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ANGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.N/A

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 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
    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX 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
    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    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
    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of NGINX Ingress Controller and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    NGINX Plus
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX Ingress Controller and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    -
    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% 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
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    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (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
    NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    Best suited if we have to manage external traffic inside your Kubernetes cluster and want to use granular control to your applications.
    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
    F5
    • Provide access to containers
    • Manage traffic
    • Route traffic
    • Lightweight
    • Near to zero downtime
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    F5
    • Its not related to Ingress functionality but certificate management with cloud vendor would be a feature i would like to see.
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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
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Very easy to use
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    Support Rating
    F5
    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
    F5
    We are already using NGINX which is so reliable, it definitely lends weight to our decision to select NGINX Ingress Controller. Also, even though it is a little more complex to manage, NGINX Ingress Controller definitely have a richer feature set, better performance, caching, traffic management among other features which was why it was chosen.
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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • Security is one of the best objective which we achieve with NGINX Ingress
    • Cost optimization is one of the business objective
    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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