--- title: F5 NGINX Controller Reviews meta\_title: 'F5 NGINX Controller Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 21 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how F5 NGINX Controller works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 21 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-07-17' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # F5 NGINX Controller Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by F5 NGINX Controller but has limited features. Are you part of the F5 NGINX Controller team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! GINX Controller orchestrates NGINX Plus and NGINX App Protect. Manage and monitor load balancers, API gateways, and web application firewalls at scale across any cloud, all from a single pane of glass. Use NGINX Controller to provide developers with self-service access to NGINX or for DevOps teams to define and publish real-time APIs. The NGINX Controller API Management Module is an API management solution, combining NGINX Plus as an API gateway with new control‑plane functionality. NGINX Controller is designed to empower Infrastructure & Operations and DevOps teams to define, publish, secure, monitor, and analyze APIs, without compromising performance. * * * Seller [F5](https://www.g2.com/sellers/f5-f6451ada-8c47-43f5-b017-58663a045bc5) Discussions [F5 NGINX Controller Community](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx-controller/discuss) Overview by Chase Abbott Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Okta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Okta") Okta 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) [ ![Termius](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Termius") Termius 4.8/5(268) ](https://www.g2.com/products/termius/reviews) [ ![SAP Fiori](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP Fiori") SAP Fiori 4.3/5(207) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-fiori/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx-controller/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 21 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## F5 NGINX Controller Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Azure Portal ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-portal/reviews) Show More ![Taruwarsh K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Taruwarsh K.") TK Taruwarsh K. Software engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/27/2025 "Great choice for load balancing" 4/5 What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller? So basically I this helps in a lot of terms like load balancing, proxying and web serving which allows consistent application delivery across different environments as it acts as a control plane which also benefits in scalability and performance optimization which is a great part for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller? There are a few things which I can point out as a user that the cost is higher for the premium features when compared to open source vresions and other point it could be only for me as it is needs parctice to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you? It majorly helps me with the load balancing as the number of request are very high at a time and it manages it very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Abhinav S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhinav S.") AS Abhinav S. Senior devops Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/23/2025 "Review for F5 Nginx controller" 3.5/5 What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller? The most helpful feature of F5 Nginx controller is that it help to direction the requests in the load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller? The only thing which is lagging in F5 Nginx Controller is that it does not provide details on the rate limiting on requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you? It is helping a lot in solving the issue of giving the direction to the traffic flowing though the system over the load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/20/2024 "Manage your Kubernetes cluster with F5 NGINX Controller" 4/5 What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller? F5 NGINX Controller good option for managing kubernetes clusture ,it makes the implementation and management multiple clusters with ease .managing the controller is easy and can be done through a single YAML file , you can tweak the yaml file to better suit your needs , you can go through the docs from ngnix and third party sources if you want to encorporate feature which are availabe for kubernetes ingress controller Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller? initial setup is tricky and can be hard for newbies ,editing the YAML can sometimes make things complicated otherwise its easy to integrate with your existing cloud infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you? Mangement of kubernetes clustures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aravind N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aravind N.") AN Aravind N. Teaching Assistant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/28/2025 "Review for nginx controller" 4/5 What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller? Security, ease of use, flexible, and scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller? Complex setup, licensing costs, limited support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you? Centralized management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/31/2025 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/7/2024 "Ingress controller we used a lot" 4/5 What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller? Easy to use ingress controller. We used it in Kubernates because of automation features it provides and configurability. Lately, we started to shift to another one (HAProxy) as the later seems to be more scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller? Not as scalable as HAProxy. We decided to shift to that now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you? Traffic distribution, scalability and high availability in Kubernetes cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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