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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    WSO2 API Manager

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…

    $0

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    Pricing
    NGINX PlusWSO2 API Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $849
    per month billed annually
    Advanced
    $2,099
    per month billed annually
    Enterprise
    Tiered Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NGINX PlusWSO2 API Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NGINX PlusWSO2 API Manager
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    WSO2
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    NGINX PlusWSO2 API Manager
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX Plus and WSO2 API Manager
    Feature
    NGINX Plus
    7.1
    3 Ratings
    11% below category average
    WSO2 API Manager
    -
    Ratings
    IDE support7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation6.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of NGINX Plus and WSO2 API Manager
    Feature
    NGINX Plus
    -
    Ratings
    WSO2 API Manager
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    API access control00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NGINX
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINX PlusWSO2 API Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINX PlusWSO2 API Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    WSO2
    It's free! No argument can win a fight with that! And it's the only reason I gave it a 5. If you have no money to spend, and a simple environment you'll have a nice product. But free does come with a price. After 5 years we're still struggling with ports, and analytics (it just won't work without any errors caused by some configuration somewhere). An API Manager should work out of the box. The only configuration expertise that any developer wants to invest in, is the configuration of API's. Not the product itself... Anyone who've seen the training material, just for installing this thing will agree that this is not the way to go. Of all the API Managers out there (we've tried 4), WSO2 is the only one were you need to know how this dragon of a java application works internally. Did I already mention the humongous amount of config files?
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
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    WSO2
    • Authentication based on OAuth 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication.
    • Rate Limiting applied at different levels like Subscriber, API, Resource and Backend.
    • Monitoring by exporting the metrics in Prometheus and traces in Jaeger.
    • Mediation to perform transformation, orchestration etc.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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
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    WSO2
    • Better QA testing prior to releases rollout
    • Better support needed
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    WSO2
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    F5
    Very easy to use
    Incentivized
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    WSO2
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    WSO2
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
    Incentivized
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    WSO2
    Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software development initiative.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    WSO2
    • We've moved away from legacy SOAP services where nobody knew what services was used by who. WSO2 eliminated at least 90% of time spend on any service.
    • Creating API's (or actually creating the API Management layer...) is so simple that new developers can get away with it in no time. Again, real time gainer.
    • Since creating API's is so simple, developers are very fast in adopting a kind of "Domain thinking". In comparison with Azure API Manager: Azure does not demand knowledge of "how" the product works, but it's definitely more difficult to get an API up and running in Azure. And for some reason, azure does not promote clean domain driven architecture. Domain Driven architecture is the greatest time saver strategy possible. And WSO2 fits nicely in there.
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