# NGINX Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is NGINX the right Load Balancing solution for you? Explore 20 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/233717/NGINX-Plus/reviews --- NGINX 4.5 (20) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/233717/NGINX-Plus/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of NGINX Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.4 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-20 of 20 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Gregory M. Developer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best for web servers" March 30, 2018 5.0 Pros Excellent tool, to combine it with virtualized servers with virtual box. My team and I specialized in ubuntu server and nginx virtualized servers to create our development and testing environments. It is comfortable and easy to work with, its handling of clean URLs is very easy. Cons It is a very complete and robust tool that from time to time is difficult to learn for those who have little experience in configuring web servers, but once learned a developer will not want to change it. Review Source EC Eric C. Engineering Manager Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "De-facto standard for web server/reverse proxy today" March 16, 2025 5.0 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 VR Verified Reviewer Lead Backend Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Nginx (free) > Nginx PLUS" October 30, 2018 3.0 Pros The only pro I can pull out of PLUS is their stats dashboard and the fact you pay and get support. Cons I find the free version of Nginx is much better and has all the same modules available, minus the support (which you can find most issues for free on the internet, probably) Review Source SM Senamela M. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A Great server for modern applications" November 21, 2022 5.0 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/) Reason for choosing NGINX The Project I was working on need a solution I could implement via CLI Review Source GR Gaspar R. Infrastructure Principal Media Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best in-class web server and proxy" July 6, 2023 5.0 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 VR Verified Reviewer web developer Program Development Used the software for: 2+ years ### "NGINX Plus is A Versatile and Powerful Solution for Load Balancing and Traffic Management" March 6, 2023 5.0 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 KJ Kyle J. Web Developer Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "NGiNX" November 15, 2017 4.0 We benefit by using NGinX as our primary development web server that points traffic to the correct corresponding service base on hostname. This allows development to easily work on multiple projects with multiple languages and/or versions simultaneously. Pros My team uses NGinX for configuring our development servers and locations, using variables, rewriting URIs to redirect to the appropriate service based on hostname. NGinX makes this process light and easy. We develop multiple different sites and services. NGinX is lightweight and you can be up and running quickly. It does everything I need as a web server and I really have no complaints so far. Cons NGinX is really for high level server admins. I can be complex because all the configurations are text based files and if you do not understand what you are doing it will cause issues. Review Source PD Paul D. Developer / system admin Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I dunno, it just has that 'something'." September 18, 2017 4.0 Something about Nginx feels qualitatively 'better' than Apache. I know that's subjective, but that sort of thing matters when you have to manage a flotilla of Nginx instances in your daily work. The configuration files just make sense to me in a way that Apache config files never did. The config language is very expressive and lean. It's a versatile server; you can use it as an application proxy, a reverse caching proxy, a forward proxy, and of course a plain ol' web server. (Disclaimer: I've only ever used the open source Nginx, but the commercial version has some very compelling features that I know I've wished I could use.) Pros Simple configuration, lots of features, speed, and reverse proxying. Most important, it just 'feels better' than alternatives. Cons Support for meta-config could be better: when sharing templates among vhosts, the limitations of how you can use variables are a surprise. Review Source MS Mike S. Programmer/Analyst Paper & Forest Products Used the software for: 2+ years ### "NGINX Plus - Excellent LoadBalancer" October 7, 2020 5.0 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 VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "NGINX Plus gets the job done" January 18, 2022 5.0 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 Oskar Adrian R. Líder Técnico Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Balanceo de carga con NGINX Plus" September 14, 2022 5.0 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/) Reason for choosing NGINX Por su facilidad de instalación e uso. Review Source Henry D. IT Manager Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "great web engine for multiples purposes." August 1, 2018 4.0 Great stability and security. Pros The easy install and the flexibility of the configuration styles, is one of the most secure engine at the marked. Cons it would be nice to have a more optional modules already integrate at the default installer,for example like another flavor of installer, at least with the most used modules. Review Source JM Jeffrey M. Software security analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "mobile API gateways done right" July 23, 2018 5.0 Pros ease of use of Api implemented in Restful service. From c# code to exposed services i can use android studio (java) and make use of the endpoints. Load balancing is also sorted via nginx. Nginx is an already with security as well as api cannot be sniffed over the network. Theyre excrypted. deploying an app to our UAT/Beta environment replicates a real world scenario. Cons There is a huge learning curve when you have to intregrate into another layer but once set up it is easy to re-use. Every new person that has come onto the team has struggled to set up but internal documentation has been created to set up internally for Android SDK. Review Source Gianni G. CEO and Principal IT Security Consultant Computer & Network Security Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A great option to create scalable applications" August 20, 2018 4.0 Pros The fact that it is build on top of Nginx is already a big plus, however even better is the fact that Nginx Plus supports session persistent and can help you to improve the user experience. Cons At first, it may be quite challenging to understand how all the pieces fit together. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Analytics Manager Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Reliable web server and reverse proxy" June 6, 2022 4.0 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 VR Verified Reviewer Sysadmin Research Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great LB/WAF stack for Nginx" January 8, 2019 5.0 Pros It has a lot of great features built in, and made to work with existing Nginx installations Cons While Nginx is free, Nginx plus is not. There are other FOSS alternatives available. Review Source AD Andrew D. Programmer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Better than Nginx" October 15, 2019 5.0 NGINX Plus has been an overall pleasant experience. The feature I use most is the healthchecks for services. Pros I really enjoy that NGINX Plus improves upon already existing open-source solution NGINX. It's all the features of the open-source version, plus more. It acts as a very good load balancer, caching solution, and as a monitor. Cons Unfortunately, the NGINX Plus can be extremely expensive, ranging in the thousands of dollars. If this sounds too expensive for you, using simply NGINX is probably a better plan. Review Source VS Vinicius S. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Review for NGINX Plus" April 6, 2022 4.0 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. Reason for choosing NGINX Better customer support. Review Source RN RJ N. Co-Founder Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reliable and secure web server" April 9, 2018 5.0 Great performance, reliability, and security at a great price. Pros nginx has been rock solid and a stellar performer. I moved to nginx from apache (which worked fine) and prefer the configuration syntax as well. Cons It can have a learning curve and there's less support available as compared to other industry leaders likes Apache and IIS. Review Source Nigel Masimba R. WordPress Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best feature is load balancing" December 13, 2020 4.0 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 Similar Products Featured