Feature comparison
| Load Balancer |
NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
F5 NGINXaaS for Azure |
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| HTTP and TCP/UDP support | |||
| Layer 7 request routing | |||
| Session persistence | |||
| Active health checks | |||
| DNS service-discovery integration | |||
| Content Cache | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Static and dynamic content caching | |||
| Cache-purging API | |||
| MQTT protocol support for IOT devices | |||
| Web Server and Reverse Proxy | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Origin server for static content | |||
| Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGl, memcached, SCGI, uwsgi |
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| HTTP/2 gateway | |||
| gRPC proxy | |||
| HTTP/2 server push | |||
| HTTP/3 over QUIC | |||
| Security Controls | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| HTTP basic authentication | |||
| HTTP authentication subrequests | |||
| IP address-based access control lists | |||
| Rate limiting | |||
| Dual-stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offload | |||
| TLS 1.3 support | |||
| JWT authentication | |||
| OpenID Connect single sign-on (SSO) |
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| Internal redirect | |||
| NGINX as a SAML Service Provider | |||
| NGINX App Protect WAF (additional cost) | |||
| NGINX App Protect DoS (additional cost) | |||
| Monitoring | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Export to external monitoring tools | Export metrics to Azure Monitor |
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| Built-in dashboard | Azure Monitor and Azure Portal |
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| Extended status with 100+ additional metrics |
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| Native Open Telemetry Tracing | |||
| High Availability (HA) | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Active-active | |||
| Active-passive | Not Applicable | ||
| Configuration synchronization across cluster |
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| State sharing: sticky-learn session persistence, rate limiting, key-value stores |
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| Programmability | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| NGINX JavaScript module | |||
| NGINX Plus API for dynamic reconfiguration |
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| Key-value store | |||
| Dynamic reconfiguration without process reloads |
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| Streaming Media | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH | |||
| VOD: Flash (FLV), MP4 | |||
| Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS, HDS | |||
| MP4 bandwidth controls | |||
| Third-party ecosystem | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Ingress controller | |||
| OpenShift Router | |||
| Dynamic modules repository | Image-Filter njs OpenTelemetry XSLT |
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| Deployable as a service | Microsoft Azure | ||
| Commercial support |
Last modified October 10, 2024