Top 10 Nginx Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to F5 NGINX Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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HAProxy
By HAProxy
4.7/5
(684)
Product Description
HAProxy One helps you manage, secure, and observe all your application traffic — in any environment — with a unified platform. The platform consists of a flexible data plane (HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy ALOHA) for TCP, UDP, QUIC and HTTP traffic, a scalable control plane (HAProxy Fusion), and a secure edge network (HAProxy Edge), which together enable multi-cloud load balancing as a service (LBaaS), web app and API protection, API/AI gateways, Kubernetes networking, application delivery network (ADN), and end-to-end observability.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, HAProxy is:
More expensive
Better at support
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing
Container Networking
DDoS Protection
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance
By Cloudflare, Inc.
4.5/5
(593)
Product Description
Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solutions provide performance, reliability, and security for all of your web applications and APIs, wherever they are hosted and wherever your users are.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, Cloudflare Application Security and Performance is:
More expensive
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing
DDoS Protection
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Azure Application Gateway
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(158)
Product Description
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Unlike traditional load balancers that operate at the transport layer (Layer 4), Application Gateway operates at the application layer (Layer 7), allowing it to make routing decisions based on attributes such as URL paths and host headers. This capability provides more control over how traffic is distributed to your applications, enhancing both performance and security. Key Features and Functionality: - Layer 7 Load Balancing: Routes traffic based on HTTP request attributes, enabling more precise control over traffic distribution. - Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects applications from common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting by monitoring and filtering HTTP requests. - SSL/TLS Termination: Offloads SSL/TLS processing to the gateway, reducing the encryption and decryption overhead on backend servers. - Autoscaling: Automatically adjusts the number of gateway instances based on traffic load, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. - Zone Redundancy: Distributes instances across multiple availability zones, enhancing resilience and availability. - URL Path-Based Routing: Directs requests to backend pools based on URL paths, allowing for efficient resource utilization. - Host Header-Based Routing: Routes traffic to different backend pools based on the host header, facilitating multi-site hosting. - Integration with Azure Services: Seamlessly integrates with Azure Traffic Manager for global load balancing and Azure Monitor for centralized monitoring and alerting. Primary Value and User Solutions: Azure Application Gateway provides a scalable and highly available solution for managing web application traffic. By operating at the application layer, it offers intelligent routing capabilities that enhance application performance and reliability. The integrated Web Application Firewall ensures robust security against common web threats, while features like SSL/TLS termination and autoscaling optimize resource utilization and reduce operational overhead. This comprehensive set of features addresses the needs of organizations seeking to build secure, scalable, and efficient web front ends in Azure.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, Azure Application Gateway is:
More expensive
Better at support
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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HashiCorp Consul
By Hashicorp
4.3/5
(23)
Product Description
Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, HashiCorp Consul is:
More expensive
Easier to admin
Better at support
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing
Container Networking

Progress Kemp LoadMaster
By Progress Software
4.7/5
(212)
Product Description
Kemp LoadMaster with advanced load balancing capabilities, LoadMaster ensures the availability and resilience of applications across multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and data centers. LoadMaster includes WAF (Web Application Firewall) and authentication and single sign-on capabilities that enhance the security of applications and provide ongoing protection from attacks.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMaster is:
More expensive
Better at support
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing

Squid
By Squid-Cache
4.1/5
(16)
Product Description
Squid-Cache is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, Squid is:
More expensive
Categories in common with Nginx:
Web Server Accelerator
Application Server

Lighttpd
By Lighttpd
4.3/5
(11)
Product Description
Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.
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Categories in common with Nginx:
Web Server Accelerator
Application Server

NetScaler
By Cloud Software Group
4.4/5
(85)
Product Description
NetScaler is an application delivery and security platform for large enterprises that need high-performance application delivery, integrated security, and end-to-end observability. Because NetScaler abstracts the complexities of networking configuration and works the same in both on-premises and cloud environments, infrastructure and operations teams can move faster to deliver new products and services.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, NetScaler is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing
Container Networking
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Hostwinds
By Hostwinds
4.9/5
(438)
Product Description
Hostwinds offers website hosting for individuals and businesses of all sizes, with 24/7/365 support and nightly backups.
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Reviewers say compared to F5 NGINX, Hostwinds is:
More expensive
Better at support
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Nginx:
Load Balancing

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