NGINX vs. Choreo by WSO2

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A
WSO2 Choreo
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Since WSO2's June 2021 acquisition of Platformer, the company now offers and supports Choreo, the former Platform IPaaS and low-code cloud native engineering for API Developers.
$0
1 project, up to 5 components
Pricing
NGINXChoreo by WSO2
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
1 project, up to 5 components. $100 in Choreo infrastructure credits per month.
Pay-As-You-Go
$150
per month Up to 10 projects and 30 components. $150 per component per month. Pass-through infrastructure costs.
Enterprise
Custom Quote
per year Unlimited projects and components. Discounts based on annual commitments available. Pass-through infrastructure costs, or use a data plane.
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINXWSO2 Choreo
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details1 step is a maximum of 500ms of compute time. An incoming event, message, or outgoing API call is a minimum of 1 step.
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Features
NGINXChoreo by WSO2
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
NGINX
7.9
21 Ratings
1% below category average
Choreo by WSO2
-
Ratings
IDE support7.110 Ratings00 Ratings
Security management7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Administration and management7.318 Ratings00 Ratings
Application server performance8.218 Ratings00 Ratings
Installation9.718 Ratings00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance7.316 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
NGINX
-
Ratings
Choreo by WSO2
8.1
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
NGINXChoreo by WSO2
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(48 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NGINXChoreo by WSO2
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
[NGINX] is very well suited for high performance. I have seen it used on servers with 1k current connections with no issues. Despite seeing it used in many environments I've never seen software developers use it over apache, express, IIS in local dev environments so it may be more difficult to setup. I've also seen it used to load balance again without issues.
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WSO2
While you are developing your code, my case is codes for bots, you'll have more power and if you have an API ally that shows forecasts of latencies and throughputs: Choreo by WS02 is that friend. It is very ideal in giving insights on intelligent data mapping, code anomalies as you develop the codes or applications.
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Pros
F5
  • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
  • Great at serving static content.
  • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
  • Open-Source (no cost)!
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WSO2
  • Provides feedback in real time which sorts most of the API performance challenges.
  • Displays the estimated application performance as you compose your code.
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Cons
F5
  • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
  • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
  • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
  • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
  • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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WSO2
  • Latency curves may be inaccurate sometimes or provide over/under estimates
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Likelihood to Renew
F5
Great value for the product
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WSO2
No answers on this topic
Usability
F5
Front end proxy and reverse proxy of Nginx is always useful. I always prefer to Nginx in overall usability when you have application server and database or multiple application servers and single database i.e. clustered application. Nginx provides really good features and flexibility which helps the system administrator in case of troubleshooting and also from the administration perspective. Also, Nginx doesn't delay any request because of internal performance issues.
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WSO2
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
F5
Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
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WSO2
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
F5
We have used Traffic, Apache, Google Cloud Load Balancing and other managed cloud-based load balancers. When it comes to scale and customization nothing beats Nginx. We selected Nginx over the others because
  • we have a large number of services and we can manage a single Nginx instance for all of them
  • we have high impact services and Nginx never breaks a sweat under load
  • individual services have special considerations and Nginx lets us configure each one uniquely
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WSO2
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
F5
  • Nginx has decreased the burden of web server administration and maintenance, and we are spending less time on server issues than when we were using Apache.
  • Nginx has allowed more people in our company to get involved with configuring things on the web server, so there's no longer a single point of failure ("the Apache guy").
  • Nginx has given us the ability to handle a larger number of requests without scaling up in hardware quite so quickly.
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WSO2
  • over 90 percent accuracy in performance prediction of bots under development
  • It's possible to trace on faulty codes, down to the machine-level details.
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ScreenShots

NGINX Screenshots

Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application PlatformScreenshot of NGINX Controller - MonitoringScreenshot of NGINX Controller - Configuration

WSO2 Choreo Screenshots

Screenshot of Simultaneous graphical view and code viewScreenshot of API lifecycle managementScreenshot of Automated deploymentScreenshot of API marketplaceScreenshot of Deep observabilityScreenshot of AI-assisted development