# NGINX Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 NGINX Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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NGINX

## What is NGINX?

Powering half of the worlds busiest sites, NGINX is the heart of the modern web. We help you deploy and deliver your sites and apps with performance, reliability, security, and scale. We do this by providing a complete application delivery platform, NGINX Plus: combining load balancing, content caching, web serving, security controls, and monitoring in one easy to use software package. NGINX ensures top performance and flawless delivery for any application across all types of infrastructure.

## What is NGINX used for?

[Load Balancing](https://www.capterra.com/load-balancing-software/)[Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/)[API Management](https://www.capterra.com/api-management-software/)

Top alternative

Featured

Overall rating

Based on 20 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

95%

Neutral

5%

Negative

0%

Starting price

$2500

Per User, Per Year

Free trial  
available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### NGINX

4.5 (20)

VS.

[4.8 (64)](https://www.capterra.com/p/140396/loadbalancer-org/reviews/)

Starting Price

$2500

Per User, Per Year

Starting Price

$95

Flat Rate, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.4 (20)

Ease Of Use

4.5 (64)

Value For Money

4.1 (16)

Value For Money

4.8 (63)

Customer Service

4.4 (13)

Customer Service

4.9 (64)

## NGINX alternatives

[4.5 (255)](https://www.capterra.com/p/251336/ManageEngine-OpManager/reviews/)

Starting price

$95.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

98%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

Highest Rated

[5.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/140405/Cloud-Load-Balancer/#reviews)

Starting price

$29.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[AWS Elastic Beanstalk](https://www.capterra.com/p/234265/AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk/)

[4.8 (16)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234265/AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

94%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/234265/AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk/)

[Radware Alteon](https://www.capterra.com/p/140411/Radware-Alteon/)

[4.9 (8)](https://www.capterra.com/p/140411/Radware-Alteon/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/140411/Radware-Alteon/)

[View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/233717/NGINX-Plus/alternatives/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Authentication

4.7 (3)

66.67% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Verify the identity of users/devices to enable secure access

Content Routing

5.0 (3)

100.00% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Determine the configuration of network traffic between clients and web applications based on the content being sent

Reverse Proxy

5.0 (3)

133.33% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Accepting a request from client, forwarding it to a server that can fulfil it, and returning the server's response back to the client

SSL Offload

5.0 (3)

133.33% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Removing the SSL based encryption from incoming traffic

Health Monitoring

4.5 (2)

50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Gain insights into the health of employees, equipment, registered instances or any other organizational asset to check their status

Automatic Configuration

5.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Automatic configuration of devices/instances without manual intervention

NGINX 11 features

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Manage and direct API requests between clients and backend services

Verify the identity of users/devices to enable secure access

Automatic configuration of devices/instances without manual intervention

Temporarily stored data recently accessed in order to improve website performance and reduce load on bandwidth

Determine the configuration of network traffic between clients and web applications based on the content being sent

Gain insights into the health of employees, equipment, registered instances or any other organizational asset to check their status

Checking for another server when one is down and all the traffic needs to be routed to another one.

Accepting a request from client, forwarding it to a server that can fulfil it, and returning the server's response back to the client

Directing traffic in a circular pattern such as round robin pattern to each load balancer node in succession

Removing the SSL based encryption from incoming traffic

Features

4.7 (20)

4.7

Based on 20 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.1 (16)

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$2,500

Per User,Per Year

Value for money

4.1 (16)

4.1

Based on 16 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.4 (13)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.4 (13)

4.4

Based on 13 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.5

Based on 20 reviews

Filter by rating

5(12)

4(7)

3(1)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

EC

Eric C.

Engineering Manager

Education Management

### "De-facto standard for web server/reverse proxy today"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 16, 2025

Positive experience - very stable, customisable, high performance.

Pros

De facto industry standard for a web server/reverse proxy. Rock solid reliability!

Cons

Very minor issue but it is Linux based. May be a learning curve depending on the skills of the team.

Switched from

[XAMPP](https://www.capterra.com/p/246810/XAMPP/)

Nginx's queue/worker system is much more solid and reliable than the multiple thread system from Apache.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

GR

Gaspar R.

Infrastructure Principal

Media Production

### "Best in-class web server and proxy"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

July 6, 2023

Pros

Nginx Plus stands out for its exceptional performance and scalability, efficient SSL offload capabilities, flexible content routing for optimized resource allocation, and support for a wide range of predefined protocols, making it a valuable choice for enhancing web application delivery, security, and flexibility.The dashboards and the API are great as wekk.

Cons

Considering the nature of the product and the alternatives, I can't find any negative.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

web developer

Program Development

### "NGINX Plus is A Versatile and Powerful Solution for Load Balancing and Traffic Management"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 6, 2023

NGINX Plus is a highly capable and reliable web server and reverses proxy that provides many benefits for web developers and system administrators. It's fast and highly performant.

Pros

NGINX Plus provides a range of security features, such as SSL/TLS encryption and authentication, that can help organizations protect their web applications from attacks and vulnerabilities.

Cons

There is little to dislike about NGINX, except for its platform latency.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SM

Senamela M.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

### "A Great server for modern applications"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

November 21, 2022

A Great Server for Modern applications, I was surprised at what it could handle.

Pros

I loved the fact that I could use with Node.js, React.js and other modern libraries/frameworks.

Cons

The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get going it's very user friendly.

Alternatives considered

[XAMPP](https://www.capterra.com/p/246810/XAMPP/)

Reasons for choosing NGINX

The Project I was working on need a solution I could implement via CLI

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Oskar Adrian R.

Líder Técnico

Information Technology and Services

### "Balanceo de carga con NGINX Plus"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

September 14, 2022

Estoy trabajando con NGINX Plus para balancear varias aplicaciones, cada una de ellas con distintos protocolos, desde HTTP, hasta SNMP, y al conocer como configurar un protocolo, hacerlo con los demás es más sencillo, pues el procedimiento es similar.

Pros

La forma de implementar es muy sencilla, con configurar un par de archivos, ya puedes estar balanceando el protocolo HTTP, con distintos esquemas de balanceo, dependiendo de las necesidades que se tienen, además que esta versión ya te permite tener en esquema de alta disponibilidad al NGINX Plus, y se sincroniza en automático.

Cons

En el caso de usar como proxy el NGINX, se requiere de más ejemplos de cómo configurar el protocolo HTTPS, como usar los certificados y también los tokens, hay muchos escenarios que requieren de parámetros específicos y considero que los ejemplos es la mejor forma de aprender cómo hacerlo.

Alternatives considered

[Citrix ADC](https://www.capterra.com/p/140408/NetScaler/)

Reasons for choosing NGINX

Por su facilidad de instalación e uso.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Data Analytics Manager

Logistics and Supply Chain

### "Reliable web server and reverse proxy"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

June 6, 2022

We use Nginx Plus as a reverse proxy for lots of internal tools we deploy, among other use cases. It's been very reliable. Overall, we've had a very productive experience using it.

Pros

I like how reliable Nginx Plus is. We use it mostly as a reverse proxy. It's very fast and efficient.

Cons

I don't have anything I dislike about Nginx Plus.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

VS

Vinicius S.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

### "Review for NGINX Plus"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

April 6, 2022

The software have a great customer support.

Pros

Cloud native, easy to use reverse proxy.

Cons

Time to deploy the server is relatively short, but some settings are confused for starters.

Reasons for choosing NGINX

Better customer support.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Software Engineer

E-Learning

### "NGINX Plus gets the job done"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 18, 2022

Pros

Nginx is one of the fastest web servers out there, easy to configure and manage. Nginx Plus REST API plus healthcheck APIs makes everything easier

Cons

Nothing so far in my opinion. I love it

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Nigel Masimba R.

WordPress Developer

Information Technology and Services

### "Best feature is load balancing"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

December 13, 2020

Pros

The load balancing is easy for non-technical users to understand and set up.

Cons

Depending on the server setup, the premium Nginx plus features like load balancing may not be necessary. For example, if you have online one site on a server.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

MS

Mike S.

Programmer/Analyst

Paper & Forest Products

### "NGINX Plus - Excellent LoadBalancer"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

October 7, 2020

The option to loadbalance processes of all different kinds makes NGINX+ a valuable tool for us.

Pros

NGINX+ works great both if you want to loadbalance incoming Ecommerce orders across multiple Ecommerce server instances or want to load balance ERP user sessions for all your users scattered around the country.

Cons

Disabling and enabling instances can get a bit tedious. Would be great to save disable or enable tasks fir repetitive uses.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

[View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/233717/NGINX-Plus/reviews/)

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[Traefik vs NGINX](https://www.capterra.com/compare/199663-233717/Traefik-vs-NGINX-Plus) 

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