--- 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) ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/11/2024 "Stable platform and we use in our kong application to expand capability of nginx" 5/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? The stability and capability to expand using lua code. We use it in kong to expand the capability of our application running on top if nginix. Also lua is a very friendly amd light language which is another great advantage. Also the customization to ngnix block become easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? As of now the its a very stable platform and didnot find any big issues witn it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? This is a stable platform which helped us to expand the capability of nginix by building plugins for various use cases like ratelimiting in our api server etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 Icon 4/14/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mollie M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mollie M.") MM Mollie M. Business Development Specialist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/17/2019 "OpenResty Review" 5/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? OpenResty is a great platform that allows our developers to create applications and portals that allow our field staff to easily do their job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? The only think I dislike about OpenResty is that I feel like we do not use it to its full ability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? The integration of OpenResty allows us to solve many needs in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anchit M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anchit M.") AM Anchit M. Business Development Executive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/5/2019 "Web server for Application developers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenResty? It is best web server where you built the scaleable application. It offers all the advantages offered by Nginx modules as it deloped by same developers. It offers all the HTTP features and also it offers more features than native Lua. Lua integration works really fast as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenResty? You have to perform a lot of tasks manually compared languages we have now. Building a complex application can get quite hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenResty: It's not easy to use but try it once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenResty solving and how is that benefiting you? Our developers use it to build applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/2/2019 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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