Feature comparison
| Load Balancer   |
NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
F5 NGINXaaS for Azure |
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| Â Â HTTP and TCP/UDP support | |||
| Â Â Layer 7 request routing | |||
| Â Â Session persistence | |||
| Â Â Active health checks | |||
| Â Â DNS service-discovery integration | |||
| Content Cache | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â Static and dynamic content caching | |||
| Â Â Cache-purging API | |||
| Â Â MQTT protocol support for IOT devices | |||
| Web Server and Reverse Proxy | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â Origin server for static content | |||
| Â Â Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGl, Â Â memcached, SCGI, uwsgi |
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| Â Â HTTP/2 gateway | |||
| Â Â gRPC proxy | |||
| Â Â HTTP/2 server push | |||
| Â Â HTTP/3 over QUIC | |||
| Security Controls | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â HTTP basic authentication | |||
| Â Â HTTP authentication subrequests | |||
| Â Â IP address-based access control lists | |||
| Â Â Rate limiting | |||
| Â Â Dual-stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offload | |||
| Â Â TLS 1.3 support | |||
| Â Â JWT authentication | |||
|   OpenID Connect single sign-on   (SSO) |
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| Â Â Internal redirect | |||
| Â Â NGINX as a SAML Service Provider | |||
| Â Â NGINX App Protect WAF (additional cost) | |||
| Â Â NGINX App Protect DoS (additional cost) | |||
| Monitoring | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â Export to external monitoring tools | Export metrics to Azure Monitor |
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| Â Â Built-in dashboard | Azure Monitor and Azure Portal |
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| Â Â Extended status with 100+ Â Â additional metrics |
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| Â Â Native Open Telemetry Tracing | |||
| High Availability (HA) | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â Active-active | |||
| Â Â Active-passive | Not Applicable | ||
|   Configuration synchronization   across cluster |
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|   State sharing: sticky-learn session   persistence, rate limiting, key-value   stores |
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| Programmability | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â NGINX JavaScript module | |||
|   NGINX Plus API for dynamic   reconfiguration |
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| Â Â Key-value store | |||
|   Dynamic reconfiguration without   process reloads |
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| Streaming Media | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH | |||
| Â Â VOD: Flash (FLV), MP4 | |||
| Â Â Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS, HDS | |||
| Â Â MP4 bandwidth controls | |||
| Third-party ecosystem | NGINX Open Source |
NGINX Plus  |
NGINXaaS for Azure |
| Â Â Ingress controller | |||
| Â Â OpenShift Router | |||
| Â Â Dynamic modules repository | Image-Filter njs OpenTelemetry XSLT |
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| Â Â Deployable as a service | Microsoft Azure | ||
| Â Â Commercial support |