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NGINX Ingress Controller vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Ingress Controller
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.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
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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Features
NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Ingress Controller
7.8
2 Ratings
4% 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 Product A and Product B
NGINX Ingress Controller
-
Ratings
NGINX Plus
8.2
6 Ratings
3% above category average
IDE support00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
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NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
NGINX Ingress ControllerNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(2 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(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.
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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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
F5
  • Provide access to containers
  • Manage traffic
  • Route traffic
  • Lightweight
  • Near to zero downtime
Verified User
Anonymous
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F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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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.
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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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
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
F5
No answers on this topic
F5
Very easy to use
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
F5
  • Security is one of the best objective which we achieve with NGINX Ingress
  • Cost optimization is one of the business objective
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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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.
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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