--- title: OpenResty Reviews meta\_title: 'OpenResty Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenResty works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 7 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-07-17' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # OpenResty Reviews & Product Details OpenResty is a fledged web platform that integrates the standard Nginx core and LuaJIT. It is designed to help developers build scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways. * * * Seller [OpenResty](https://www.g2.com/sellers/openresty) Discussions [OpenResty Community](https://www.g2.com/products/openresty/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![New Relic](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "New Relic") New Relic 4.4/5(586) ](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/openresty/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 7 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Viraj A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Viraj A.") VA Viraj A. Software Engineer Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/5/2019 "Beefed up nginx with openresty and its cool" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? Well, everyone knows nginx is really cool to use when you have the requirement for highly concurrent web server environment with its non-blocking model for incoming requests. OpenResty based nginx takes it to a really cool level. It regains all the nginx features making it essential just nginx with extra most used handy utilities, hence saving lots of time and effort if nginx is configured on its own. Lua is pretty cool language of the web and OpenResty provides some very nice way to add client cosocket driver and lua resty templates along with some pre-configured lualibs which are really useful. OpenResty provides extremely sensible defaults as compared to using bare nginx server. Also, the way OpenResty uses worker threads providing each their own lua jit vms is neat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? Well, nginx for windows does not support multiple workers nor does it provide an installer to run nginx as service for windows, and this situation does not change when using OpenResty based nginx. Considering how much OpenResty provides it would be really good if it is enabled to work on windows and hence competes with the likes of IIS and Apache on windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenResty: Consider providing OpenResty on Windows Server environment, especially installing it out of box as a Windows Service and allowing usage/configuration of multiple worker nodes in Windows platform which will really help to replace other Windows based servers specially IIS and Apache for Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? Using OpenResty based nginx server to act as a reverse proxy as well as load balancer to backend web applications. Again, due to its non-blocking web request serving model that nginx uses, the performance advantage is really significant out of the box. Another benefit is saving tons of consultancy time with the nginx plus model wherein a lot of optimization libraries suggested to add are available out of box as lualibs and external lua scripts in case of OpenResty which is really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/23/2019 "It was easy." 4/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? It was super easy to use and I was able to update our corporate dinner plans very easily and received confirmation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? I don't have anything in particular that I disliked, although I hate receiving "extra" emails in any circumstance. That can be corrected with a simple change to profile settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? There weren't any problems, but I'm able to easily manage reservations in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DQ David Q. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/27/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "OpenResty customer review " 4/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? OpenResty has some very well designed and simple to use modules. I love how I can run my web server app in Nginx server and be able to use the models to do nonblocking IO with the HTTP client. There is also has remote backend which is a must need for me as Ive had previously used MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? The modules for the Nginx does take time to learn and sometimes can get complicated if you get more in dept with the program. There are still some things i wish they had fix and the change log usually takes a long time to deploy. Each time the log is written takes more work than previously set and would need more work and usually involve more time which would delay the speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenResty: Great platform with alot of integration. Love the service and the well written support. Highly recommend for people looking into this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? full-fledged web platform. Benefits of using this would its its integrated NGinx as a software bundle and its vast quantity of 3rd party Ngnix modules which develope and use certain modules without limitations. IT has has remote backend which is a must, as it helps me manage the same infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/25/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Eliot A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eliot A.") EA Eliot A. Account Executive - Mid-Market Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/13/2019 "OpenResty review" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? Solid user interface and applicaiton to my day to day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? Not always the easiest to navigate. I feel that there is still some functionality that can be built into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? Nothing in particular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated 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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