Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) vs. NGINX Plus

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

NGINX Plus

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) is the open source community Gateway supported by Kong, Inc, in San Francisco. Presented as the world's most popular API gateway, it is built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. Kong Gateway is also part of the Konnect platform, Kong's enterprise service offering.	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

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

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
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Features

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

NGINX Plus

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) - Ratings	NGINX Plus 7.1 Ratings 11% below category average
IDE support	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings

User Ratings
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	You can use Kong for simple to complex micro service back-ends. You can leverage the various categories of plugins to quickly set-up things. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member 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	Mapping requests to back-end services Plugins for almost everything It's super fast Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	Load balancing Caching App security Boost App performance Incentivized NS Nishant Shah Senior Analyst IS Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	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	We haven't used anything else. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	Incentivized Vinnie Chhabra IT Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	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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