NGINX Plus comparisons
NGINX Plus is compared head-to-head with AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load Balancing and Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer and more: 7 head-to-heads in Load Balancing Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
NGINX Plus head-to-head
- NGINX Plus vs AWS Elastic Load Balancing
- NGINX Plus vs Google Cloud Load Balancing
- NGINX Plus vs Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer
- NGINX Plus vs Cloudflare Load Balancing
- NGINX Plus vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster
- NGINX Plus vs HAProxy Community Edition
- NGINX Plus vs HAProxy Enterprise
NGINX Plus vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Managed service | Layer 7 routing | Global traffic management | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | NGINX Plus | No | No | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 1 | AWS Elastic Load Balancing | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.3 | |
| 2 | Google Cloud Load Balancing | $0.01/unit usage-based | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.2 | |
| 3 | Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer | No | $0.007/unit usage-based | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.1 |
| 4 | Cloudflare Load Balancing | No | $5/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.0 |
| 5 | Progress Kemp LoadMaster | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 8.9 | |
| 7 | HAProxy Community Edition | Yes | Free | No | Yes | 8.7 | |
| 8 | HAProxy Enterprise | No | No | Yes | Yes | 8.6 |
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