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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/AKong 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

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ANGINX 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
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)NGINX Plus
    Considered Both Products
    Kong, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)NGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
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    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    7.1
    3 Ratings
    11% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.42 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.42 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.42 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)NGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)NGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kong, Inc
    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
    Read full review
    F5
    Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Kong, Inc
    • Mapping requests to back-end services
    • Plugins for almost everything
    • It's super fast
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Kong, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    • 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
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Kong, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Kong, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Very easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Kong, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    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
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kong, Inc
    We haven't used anything else.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Kong, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    • 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
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