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NGINX Ingress Controller comparisons

Freemium#2 of 28 in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

NGINX Ingress Controller is compared head-to-head with Traefik Proxy, Kong Ingress Controller and Contour and more: 7 head-to-heads in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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NGINX Ingress Controller head-to-head

NGINX Ingress Controller vs each of them

#ToolFree planPaid fromIngress API modelTLS automationCanary routingRate limitingWeb application firewallScore
2NGINX Ingress ControllerYesIngressYesYesYesYes9.2
1Traefik ProxyYesFreeYesYes9.3
3Kong Ingress ControllerYesFreeBothYesYes9.1
4ContourYesFreeBothYesYesYes9.0
5HAProxy IngressYesFreeBothYesYesYesYes8.9
6kgatewayYesFreeBothYesYesYesYes8.8
7Apache APISIXYesFree8.7
8Envoy GatewayYesFree8.6

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