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F5 on IBM Cloud vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 on IBM Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
F5 on IBM Cloud lets you see and control all traffic passing through your network. F5’s highly scalable, resilient and reusable services dynamically adapt to ensure application availability, performance and security.N/A
NGINX Plus
Score 8.4 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
F5 on IBM CloudNGINX 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
F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
Considered Both Products
F5 on IBM Cloud
JB
Jessica Bwire
Communications Director
Chose F5 on IBM Cloud
F5 on IBM Cloud is substantially competent in managing traffic, through network configuration and monitoring. The presence of a software security manager also suits the program for stability and confidence. Besides, F5 on IBM Cloud has an infrastructure management feature, …
NGINX Plus
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose NGINX Plus
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
Features
F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
F5 on IBM Cloud
-
Ratings
NGINX Plus
7.1
Ratings
11% below category average
IDE support00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
F5 on IBM Cloud has efficient ways to manage traffic, both local and that from the international sources. Besides, the firewall evaluations and management is handled by the program. F5 on IBM Cloud has a well designed virtual machine configuration, following both small and the largest templates for efficiency. The network configuration and monitoring is also deployed in the program.
JB
Jessica Bwire
Communications Director
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I think that NGINX Plus could be used in place of a hardware load balancer and it would be light weight and easier to configure than a hardware based load balancer but in terms of usability a GUI for said load balancer would definitely help in setting up
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • F5 on IBM Cloud has application security features.
  • Besides, the extensive local traffic management from the application is efficient.
  • Lastly, the program acts as an advanced firewall managing tool.
JB
Jessica Bwire
Communications Director
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  • Load balancing
  • Caching
  • App security
  • Boost App performance
NS
Nishant Shah
Senior Analyst IS
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Cons
  • F5 on IBM Cloud is a virtual edition, which is technical.
  • The subscription fee is extensive and expensive.
  • F5 on IBM Cloud configuration process requires an expertise.
JB
Jessica Bwire
Communications Director
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  • 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
No answers on this topic
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
No answers on this topic
The UI is not there.
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
F5 on IBM Cloud is substantially competent in managing traffic, through network configuration and monitoring. The presence of a software security manager also suits the program for stability and confidence. Besides, F5 on IBM Cloud has an infrastructure management feature, which deals with storage, network, and the general hardware that supports systems.
JB
Jessica Bwire
Communications Director
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Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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Return on Investment
  • F5 on IBM Cloud offers a traffic report that is critical for decisions.
  • Firewall management eliminates chances of threats and destruction.
  • Network monitoring and configurations keeps us safe and monitored.
JB
Jessica Bwire
Communications Director
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  • 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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