NGINX Plus vs. Payara Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Plus
Score 8.7 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
Payara Server
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Payara 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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINX PlusPayara Server
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
NGINX PlusPayara Server
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
NGINX PlusPayara Server
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Plus
8.1
5 Ratings
1% above category average
Payara Server
7.5
2 Ratings
7% below category average
IDE support7.93 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Security management8.23 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Administration and management7.94 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Application server performance8.23 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Installation8.14 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance8.54 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
NGINX PlusPayara Server
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(2 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.
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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.
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Pros
F5
  • Load balancing
  • Caching
  • App security
  • Boost App performance
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Payara Services
  • Small memory footprint.
  • Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
  • Very good performance.
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Cons
F5
  • Update full config via api
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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.
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Likelihood to Renew
F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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Payara Services
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Usability
F5
It's been great for us for 3+ years now.
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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.
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Performance
F5
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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.
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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.
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Payara Services
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Alternatives Considered
F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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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.
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Return on Investment
F5
  • More uptime for business critical applications
  • Less overhead for administrator to maintain the applications
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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.
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