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Azure Load Balancer vs. NGINX Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Load Balancer
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Load Balancer provides built-in load balancing for cloud services and virtual machines, so the user can create highly-available and scalable applications in minutes.
$0.01
Per Rule Per Hour
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
Azure Load BalancerNGINX Plus
Editions & Modules
Additional Rules
$0.01
Per Rule Per Hour
First 5 Rules
$0.025
Per Hour
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Load BalancerNGINX Plus
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Azure Load BalancerNGINX Plus
Features
Azure Load BalancerNGINX Plus
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Azure Load Balancer
-
Ratings
NGINX Plus
7.1
3 Ratings
11% below category average
IDE support00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Load BalancerNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Load BalancerNGINX Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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.
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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Pros
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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Cons
Microsoft
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
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
F5
Very easy to use
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
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.
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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