FortiWeb vs. NGINX Plus

FortiWeb

FortiWeb

6 Reviews and Ratings

NGINX Plus

NGINX Plus

6 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiWeb	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	FortiWeb is Fortinet's web application security system (or web application firewall, WAF) featuring advanced vulnerability management and threat detection and prevention, available in deployment as an appliance or virtual appliance, also as a hosted or a cloud-based virtual solution.	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

FortiWeb

NGINX 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
FortiWeb	NGINX Plus
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	FortiWeb	NGINX Plus
Considered Both Products	FortiWeb Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Chose FortiWeb Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others. Incentivized Helpful?	NGINX Plus ML Maverick Lim Senior System Analyst Chose NGINX Plus Apigee Edge Incentivized Helpful? Vinnie Chhabra IT Engineer Chose NGINX Plus HAProxy Enterprise and NetScaler Incentivized Helpful? NS Nishant Shah Senior Analyst IS Chose NGINX Plus Riverbed AppResponse Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NGINX Plus The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

FortiWeb

NGINX Plus

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	FortiWeb - Ratings	NGINX Plus 7.1 Ratings 11% below category average
IDE support	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	FortiWeb	NGINX Plus
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score 9.3 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score 9.3 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	FortiWeb	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FortiWeb	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	Regarding my experience, I prefer to deploy FortiWeb in a reverse proxy to have the full features and protection. The other mode will be useful for special cases as will it will not have the full range of features and protection. Like offline Sniffing, it will be used in special cases. Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	API protection Bot mitigation Web application protection Application delivery Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review	Load balancing Caching App security Boost App performance Incentivized NS Nishant Shah Senior Analyst IS Read full review
Cons	Built-in vulnerability scanner should be better in next release Predefined security policies for other web application not listed Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review	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 Vinnie Chhabra IT Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The UI is not there. Incentivized ML Maverick Lim Senior System Analyst Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others. Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review	Incentivized Vinnie Chhabra IT Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	ROI for last three years was 60% Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review	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 ML Maverick Lim Senior System Analyst Read full review
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