Feature comparison

Load Balancer
  
NGINX Open
Source
NGINX Plus
 
F5 NGINXaaS
for Azure
  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
  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)
  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
  Built-in dashboard Azure Monitor
and Azure Portal
  Extended status with 100+
  additional metrics
  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
  State sharing: sticky-learn session
  persistence, rate limiting, key-value
  stores
Programmability NGINX Open
Source
NGINX Plus
 
NGINXaaS
for Azure
  NGINX JavaScript module
  NGINX Plus API for dynamic
  reconfiguration
  Key-value store
  Dynamic reconfiguration without
  process reloads
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
  Deployable as a service Microsoft Azure
  Commercial support