# F5 NGINX Plus Reviews **Vendor:** F5 **Category:** [Load Balancing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About F5 NGINX Plus NGINX Plus is the all-in-one load balancer, reverse proxy, web server, content cache, and API gateway. ## F5 NGINX Plus Reviews ### 1. Using F5 Nginx Plus for load balancing and it is really a better option **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen M. | Cloud Support Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** The load balancing feature and the API Gateway **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Nothing to mention about the dislike things **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load balancing feature helps us to maintain the servers in high available always ### 2. F5 NGINX Plus - Modern Application Platform! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manya V. | Content Writing & Marketing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** F5 NGINX Plus is one of the best API monitoring and security enhancing platforms that simplifies the process of modernizing legacy, monolithic applications as well as delivering agile, micro-services applications to enterprises undergoing digital transformation. With API Gateway and load balancer features, this is a robust cloud-native load balancer ingress solution that is super resilient, scalable, and dynamic. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** There's not a lot to dislike about NGINX except the platform latency, slow support service, and a bit difficult to understand UI. Apart from this, the tool is great and really profitable for businesses seeking quick API deployments! **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform introduced many benefits for our business such as reduced complexity, flexibility in API management, easy-to-set up and better integration, intuitive dashboard, and real-time monitoring. ### 3. Best reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway 2023 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak R. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Right now, I don't use it as per business requirements but i have used this an year ago. However, I use nodejs and nginx docs are quite easy to implement It in my application. I have integrated nginx for load balancing and reverse proxying the requests as nodejs is not capable to do it alone and the plus version is out of the box efficient web accelerator with good engineer support. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** You will not be able to it in open-source environment and people when hear it about NGINX plus feature online they sometime mislead to free version. Also, the plus version for Indian businesses is quite expensive **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are lots of feature offered by nginx and I would like to qoute a specific case where I loved nginx so much i.e. from the above pros, I do not have to worry about the user load at all and my nodejs website was accelerated with plus version which had lots of performance issue at the time application was in UAT environment. Nginx will handle it for you in very easy efficient way. Also, there are lots of other features include related to load balancing and proxy, api gateways ### 4. Stable and High-performance load balancer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dadapeer G. | Staff Information Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Enchanced Availablity, Speed and Responsiveness. Good cloud native load balancer ingress solution along with API Gateway and load balancer features. Super resilent, no bottle necks noticed. Capable of scaling for many hosts and applications. We can use the caching features and compressions along with load balance and reverse proxy soultions included in this product. We can also benefit from different protocols such as SMTP, IMAP, POP. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Licensing model. Metric dashborad is not great. Latency and timeout should be improved. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great Cloud native reverse proxy, load balancing and API Gateway features included in single product. Eliminate the manintance and cost for having different components. ### 5. Nginx webserver cum loadbalancer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pravin W. | Member Of Technical Staff, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** The best thing is you can deploy ngix service very easily on any platform. Since docker image is also available for nginx, its much easier when you are looking micro service application load balancing. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** The content is not presice I guess. The video content is also very limited if you for looking for any specific thing about Nginx plus. More video content and reliable doc would be great. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** For me earlier platform dependency was issue when deploying a Nginx server on different platform. Nw Nginx plus solve this issue by creating the Nginx plus docker image. ### 6. Better Works for HTTP Optimisation & Lossless Compression **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad S. | Customer Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Opensource to many platforms like Netflix and Dropbox which have a high volume of traffic. It balances the load nicely for delivering static & dynamic content in a fast manner. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Current Trial is for 30 days for NGINX Plus and should have been atleast for 90 days for the platform to understand how would be the ROI if it is puchased. Apart from that, Nothing else to dislike **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since it is considered more reliable & secure than Apache. Most of the content delivery platforms use it. It reduces the data consumption of the end users, making it cost-effective. ### 7. F5 Nginx plus - Great Deployment tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** It is a deployment tool for easy deployment of web servers . it is very reliable,fast with expert level production capabilities. It has features like HA,load balancing and production grade health checking made this tool very unique in the market. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** It doesnt have larger community like apache , so when we have any issues in deployments we dont get much support is the only draw back as for now. I hope in future this will be resolved as the market of nginx is growing day by say. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** The load balancer in this Nginx helps our project a lot in enrouting the traffic to available resources, that way we are maintaining our servers with out any down time. And this is the best part as far as i know. ### 8. Review of Nginx plus **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nanda Gopal P. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** The versatility and the range of solutions nginx provides is the best part. load balancer, reverse proxy etc everything that is needed to host a API platform is what makes this best. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** So far don't see a concern. But for most use cases the free version is enough. So pricing may be a concern if we consider the additional plus benefits. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Nginx as a reverse proxy and a load balancer for our applications mostly and to server some static contents as well. The best thing is the dashboard which gives a lot of information in the UI. ### 9. NGINX MANAGE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahammad K. | Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** The Configuration part is the most liked. If we have a proper document to run this on Docker, that will be the most fruitful thing ever. And Auto Re-correction will be a good hook. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** If it recommends the security part, that will be more helpful. And also, if we have more information available, that would be the best part. If any templates containing a list of commands will be helpful. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Yes, absolutely. ### 10. It was a good experience using NGNIX Plus **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit R. | Big Data Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** I loved how F5 NGNIX Plus have integrated security, performance and insights with the platform. It made the platform more robust and to operate on different applications **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** In my earlier use I don't have much issues to tell. The overall experience was quite satisfactory **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** They have got great support for debugging and troubleshooting of the problems on installing or working with my application which made it unique ### 11. Good user friendly one to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thangadurai R. | Linux Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Easy to setup software load balancing and user friendly. Not so complicated. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** The page is taking time a bit. If that is better then all good. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load balancing is a great thing when you have scheduled tasks. And you only have resources works on one primary shift. ### 12. Good performance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen M. | AWS Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Platform Scale, Deployment Flexibility and ADC functionality are excellent. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** The major drawback is that everything needs a license. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** The proxy setup and load balancing features help a lot to make the production environment more stable. ### 13. NGINX Plus Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divya M. | Test Automation Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Nginx Plus is very fast and lightweight. Helps for easy deployment of web servers. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** I don't dislike anything at this point. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Nginx Plus for load balancing and better performance. It would be much helpful if the Support team helped us in the installation. ### 14. simple and easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jyotikumari S. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** fast webserver for the load balancer and easy to implement. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** First time it is look like hard but it is easy after that. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** load balancing ### 15. NGINX is flexible with configuration and handles a lot of traffic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish K. | Senior Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Easy to configure with no restart. Scale based on traffic and rules. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Better GUI for monitoring and missing configuration wizard **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handles load and use as reverse proxy ### 16. Love F5 NGINX **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arbin S. | Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** I like the web server and load balancer best **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** I can't think of any right now. I love everything. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping me solve the hassle to setup everything separately. ### 17. complex but very useful **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash V. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** NGINX F5 is very useful for load balancing. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Complex for early learners and installation might me tricky. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load balancing for my product. ### 18. Easy to use and Easy to learn. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisarg S. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** It is very fast webserver and you can use load balancer very well in this. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Pricing is very high as compared to services. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** content cache, All in one software load balancer. ### 19. One go solution for web server deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham M. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** F5 NGINX Plus is one of the best load balancer I came across , Traffic can be distributed between multiple routes **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** In my opinion logging mechanism should be enhanced **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to distribute the traffic very effectively of the endpoints or URLsby multiple routes and serve endpoint user very quickly ### 20. Kubernetes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sooraj s. | Specialist - Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Increase uptime Simply operations Release Apps faster **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** I think it can improve more in incoprating with other software and tools **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kubernetes problem and while releasing ITAH Makes it much smoother ### 21. Great **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh S. | software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** fast web server and amazing fast load balancer **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Too expensive, and UI is not so good sometimes, it is leg. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is load balancing for my nodejs project ### 22. awsome **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay M. | SR Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** The load balancing of NGINX plus is super cool. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** First-time installation is tricky, but after that, it goes smoothly. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** for my magento project ### 23. Nginx serving all use cases **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit Dayal G. | Technical Lead SRE, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Front and Revert proxy feature along with Nginx lua scripts **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Managing different vhosts or long configuration files **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load balancing ### 24. Not disappointed **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sri Harsha S. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Very useful for configuring web server with just one single config **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Server needs restart multiple times to take config changes into effect **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** NA ### 25. Its an only option for best and fast web server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ekta S. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** First of all, it is very easy to configure and easy to manage than its free version Nginx. No comparison to its fast performance and even best for your low-performance hardware server. Our Team is very happy to use and the application which is on this webserver is completely running fine so far. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Everything is good, only pricing is a concern. **Recommendations to others considering F5 NGINX Plus:** It is better with the open-source and free version of NGINX. F5 NGINX Plus is a reliable web server option available to use. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** ofcourse we have multliple server architecture and on every machine we are using NGINX Plus web server for better performance and for load balancer. Its support team is available for help during the installation and deployment of application. ### 26. Good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** Everything like package wait and installation speed and working mechanism. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** So far nothing, I liked all the things nothing I can say that i don't like. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Grab the immediate changes and in giving exact output ### 27. F5 NGINX - Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** It's not only the best web server but it's a good LB also. Simple in terms of configuration & flexibile. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Nothing dislike about the product, our operation team is happy about it. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's an amazing web server with load balancer feature ### 28. Excellent cloud system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harikrishnan P. | Associate Principal Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?** F5 NGINX Plus is an ingenious solution for cloud architecture. It includes essential features like NGINX webserver,load-balancer, API gateway, and monitoring setup. **What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?** Pricing seems to be on the higher side. Also, it is yet to prove long-term reliability. **What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for cloud infrastructure. It works well If you use Nginx as reverse-proxy. ## F5 NGINX Plus Discussions - [What is NGINX in F5?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/f5-nginx-plus-what-is-nginx-in-f5) - [Does F5 use NGINX?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/f5-nginx-plus-does-f5-use-nginx) - [What is NGINX plus?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-nginx-plus) - [View F5 NGINX Plus pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx-plus/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-09+08%3A49%3A33+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8f2a8d67-fa4e-440a-9ec6-2cdf6d79f7ff&secure%5Btoken%5D=5bd1e1cf6077b75e7e99f7e9db69f443d566ab44879402c3c84cb8126eed0b08&format=llm_user) ## F5 NGINX Plus Features **Performance** - Content Delivery Acceleration - Caching and Prefetching - Content Compression - Load Balancing - Server Clustering - Real-Time Monitoring **Usability - Load Balancing** - User Interface Design - Setup Simplicity - Platform Integration - Container Support **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Security** - SSL/TLS Processing - Adminstration Control **Performance Optimization - Load Balancing** - Global Load Balancing - Dynamic Resource Allocation - Server Health Monitoring - Disaster Recovery **Security & Compliance - Load Balancing** - SSL/TLS Termination - Application Firewall Integration - DDoS Mitigation - Access Control - IP Whitelisting/Blacklisting ## Top F5 NGINX Plus Alternatives - [HAProxy](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (892 reviews) - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (578 reviews) - [Hostwinds](https://www.g2.com/products/hostwinds/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (419 reviews)