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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Payara Server

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APayara Server is a fully supported, developer-friendly, open source application server. The vendor says Payara Server’s architecture is innovative, cloud-native and optimized for production deployments. The application server is built and supported by a team of DevOps engineers dedicated to the continued development and maintenance of the open source software and committed to optimizing Payara Server for production Java EE applications. Key features of Payara Server include: •…N/A
    Pricing
    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $849
    per month billed annually
    Advanced
    $2,099
    per month billed annually
    Enterprise
    Tiered Pricing
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Payara Services
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX Plus and Payara Server
    Feature
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Payara Server
    7.5
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IDE support7.94 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Security management7.94 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Administration and management8.25 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Application server performance7.94 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Installation8.25 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance8.25 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Small Businesses
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINX PlusPayara Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Payara Services
    - If the application is very large then the Payara server is suitable and in the case of a small application, we can choose Micro Payara. - Micro payara is very well suited for microservice architecture. - Fully Jakarta compliance. - Very good performance.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
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    Payara Services
    • Small memory footprint.
    • Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
    • Very good performance.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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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    Payara Services
    • Issues that are logged in Payara GitHub forum need to address on time, but it keeps on postponing fixing those issues.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    Payara Services
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    F5
    Very easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Payara Services
    As mentioned before it has an amazing configuration console. You can practically do anything from there and even update the program or install new features on the fly.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Payara Services
    As mentioned before, its performance capabilities were one of the reasons we used them. It interacts with mass mail software and we see no performance impact. It handles everything pretty well and pretty fast.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    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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    Payara Services
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
    Incentivized
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    Payara Services
    - As I said before, Payara has full Jakarta compliance and provide up-to-date technology stack upgrade. - Easy to install and upgrade. - Very less configuration setting. - Default ready-to-use production domain is available, which can be spun up to use in production.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Payara Services
    • Can host multiple application on single VM.
    • Helps managed service team reduces their time on installation and up-gradation ( upgrading it to a new Payara server is very simple).
    • We can opt for Payara or Micro Payara based on the application size.
    Incentivized
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