Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus

Kemp LoadMaster

Kemp LoadMaster

88 Reviews and Ratings

NGINX Plus

NGINX Plus

6 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kemp LoadMaster	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	LoadMaster from Kemp Technologies in New York is an application delivery controller.	$1,720 per year
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

Kemp LoadMaster

NGINX Plus

Editions & Modules

VLM-500: 1,720
per year
VLM-500: 2,000
perpetual license
VLM-3000: 3,050
per year
VLM-3000: 4,000
perpetual license
VLM-MAX: 7,610
per year
VLM-MAX: 10,000
perpetual license

Team: $849
per month billed annually
Advanced: $2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise: Tiered Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kemp LoadMaster	NGINX Plus
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Kemp LoadMaster	NGINX Plus
Considered Both Products	Kemp LoadMaster Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Easy to use for internal services with a simple interface and easy to understand logging. It does not offer the same extent of features as the citrix ADC netscaler however it performs its function extremely well and is easily managed Incentivized Helpful? Maxim Rubis Senior Web Administrator Chose Kemp LoadMaster We recently had some experience with AWS Application Load Balancer, and I cay for sure it's not match for Kemp Loadmaster. Rules options are limited; configuration options are not really flexible; and learning curve is much steeper. Incentivized Helpful? DS Daniel Sherwood IT Infra Chose Kemp LoadMaster None Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster We use Citrix ADC's in our main office to load balance hundreds of items. This was overkill for a remote office. Kemp's Loadmaster was a great fit for the use case, at a fraction of the price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster F5 [BIG-IP] has more features, but for our requirements, Kemp [LoadMaster] had all the features we needed and was a significantly more economical option. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster [Kemp LoadMaster is more] stable and [has] better pricing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Setup is easier and more straight forward on the Kemp. While I am a technical person and can setup HAProxy for the client's needs, it would be difficult for the client to manage the configuration themselves. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster I was only a user on the other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster LoadMaster has better support. More templates can be downloaded from the support website. Incentivized Helpful? EH Ed Hood VP IT Operations Chose Kemp LoadMaster The ease of use and the performance of Kemp LoadMaster have exceed the Citrix product by leaps and bounds. Incentivized Helpful? Praveen Krishnan Systems Engineer Chose Kemp LoadMaster Kemp LoadMaster is a much more reliable technology compared to its competitors. The ease of use and convenience to have it set up is one of the primary reasons to have it we choose Kemp LoadMaster over their competitors. Besides the support that we get from them is also very … Incentivized Helpful? KS Kris Schwarz Virtual Systems Engineer Chose Kemp LoadMaster We have conducted random evaluations of other product comparison data against Kemp [LoadMaster], and are very satisfied with the [Kemp] Loadmaster product reviews. We feel strongly about the product reliability, support model, and ease of use. We have complete confidence when … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster None Incentivized Helpful? Janne Mikola Common Product Manager Chose Kemp LoadMaster LoadMaster is a bit more professional and enterprise grade than a simple open source tool that is free of charge like HAProxy. LoadMaster fares better in Windows application environments than HAProxy, and the configuration of LoadMaster is done in a more modern way through an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Kemp LoadMaster does exactly the same and performs extremely well. Also, it's much easier to use and manage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Radware Alteon, F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC (formerly NetScaler ADC) and FortiADC Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Price and ease of use are much better than Citrix ADC. The CPU and memory utilization is lower and the licensing is much better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster We selected Kemp due to the low cost and ease of use compared to F5. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Specialized product for the purpose, better support on the first call (no wait for the second level till you found the solution on your own). In addition, we wanted to separate these services from the firewalls, so the firewall can do its job better. Last but not least, none of … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Mervis System Administrator Chose Kemp LoadMaster Kemp [LoadMaster] was the first load-balancer we looked at, and it provided a good price/performance balance for us. Incentivized Helpful? MH Markus Hengstler Senior System Architect Chose Kemp LoadMaster Kemp LoadMaster is easier to implement and operate, all while being less expensive. Although some competitors offer more functionality, most of our customers don't need it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster The Kemp LoadMaster outshined both of our other evaluated products, mainly in speed of setup, features available, and overall cost of ownership. In the case of the Azure LB it wasn't going to work well for our on Premise servers. The Barracuda was unreliable and difficult to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster Kemp has an ease of deployment with tech support that is second to none. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kemp LoadMaster F5 BIG-IP Incentivized Helpful? SP Samuel Penning Systems Administrator II Chose Kemp LoadMaster Of the solutions that we reviewed and evaluated, Kemp LoadMaster was the highest performing and easiest to maintain. We got it configured faster than the alternatives, it was easier to operate, and it required less work to support. Our practical tests also showed that it … 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

Kemp LoadMaster

NGINX Plus

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	Kemp LoadMaster - 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

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User Ratings
	Kemp LoadMaster	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kemp LoadMaster	NGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	Loadmaster is very powerful and flexible load balancer. Variety of options allows to create a complex network of rules and routes. During our website rollout Loadmaster allowed us to run multiple generations of the website simultaneously and seamlessly by doing the content switching on the fly. Powerful API allows easy integration into any development lifecycle. Incentivized Maxim Rubis Senior Web Administrator 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	Provisioning of Virtual Services to Real IP'ed internal systems. Detailed logging facilitating rapid and easy Root Cause Analysis of issues. Extensive Online community resources and excellent customer support for issues. Simple, effective and intuitive UI design. Effortless manual failover/failback and upgrading procedures. Provided meticulously detailed upgrade-in-place documentation for transitioning to new hardware Pursued Root Cause possibilities of unforeseen upgrade issue/misconfiguration scenarios Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Load balancing Caching App security Boost App performance Incentivized NS Nishant Shah Senior Analyst IS Read full review
Cons	Complexity. You really need. highly skilled IT team to manage this device. This is not a solution or appliance for SME's - medium or large enterprises only! Bugs, during 2015-2016 we suffered from a. number of bugs that caused downtime that would not have occurred without the Kemp LM. This is especially annoying given that it was purchased to reduce downtime! During 2017 stability improved. Costs. This is a high cost solution with high ongoing support fees. Not for those who are very cost conscious Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	I'm very pleased with the support I've received as well as the quality of the product. Incentivized JL Jared Lorz Lead DevOps Engineer Read full review	No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Kemp makes it very easy to setup, configure and manage the LoadMaster without needing a lot of help from their engineers. The interface is very easy to understand and intuitive to use. We like how it is not complicated - I can easily have one of my techs login and they can figure out how to setup/configure virtual services for load balancing without needing a manual or tech support. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The UI is not there. Incentivized ML Maverick Lim Senior System Analyst Read full review
Support Rating	Support has been easy to deal with; I have only need[ed] to contact them a few times during setup. Once its been in place and operational, we have not need[ed] to mess with the system [which] is a huge advantage. I like system[s] that do not break and require constant attention in a production environment. Jim Ryan IT Manager Read full review	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
Implementation Rating	The installation was straight forward. Once i installed it, their technical support team helped me with configuration Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The Kemp LoadMaster outshined both of our other evaluated products, mainly in speed of setup, features available, and overall cost of ownership. In the case of the Azure LB it wasn't going to work well for our on Premise servers. The Barracuda was unreliable and difficult to bring online with our needed applications. With the ability to import pre-configured templates into the Kemp load balancer, we were able to have it running within the first day of ownership. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Incentivized Vinnie Chhabra IT Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	We used Kemp LoadMaster for many projects. For a lot of customers, load balancers were too expensive or too complicated before we introduced Kemp products. It's not a overly complicated product, so we were able to train many engineers on it and have them get a certification. Incentivized MH Markus Hengstler Senior System Architect 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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