Compare Features in NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source

01.

Core features

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

Who is it for?

Any site or service looking for the world’s fastest web server

Organizations requiring a trusted, supported, and complete application delivery solution

HTTP origin server

Massively scalable event-driven architecture

Reverse proxy for HTTP, TCP, UDP, and mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP)

Application acceleration with HTTP keepalive offload, caching, and compression

HTTP/2 termination, SSL/TLS termination

Rate limiting and bandwidth Management

Dual Stack RSA-ECC Certificates

02.

Load balancing and application delivery

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

Content switching and request routing

Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing

Session persistence

Advanced cache control

Application health checks

03.

Security

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

HTTP Basic Authentication

HTTP Authentication Subrequests

IP Access Control LIsts

Secure Links

ModSecurity 3.0 WAF

JWT Authentication

OpenID Connect SSO

04.

Media delivery

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

High-performance streaming for MP4/FLV media

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS/VOD)

HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS/VOD)

Bandwidth management for MP4 media

RTMP media streaming

05.

Administration

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

Graceful reconfiguration and live binary updates

Remote logging with syslog

Live activity monitoring

On-the-fly reconfiguration of load-balanced servers

06.

Support and services

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

Community support

NGINX, Inc. support

Access to NGINX, Inc. engineering for advice and guidance

Email and web support

Unlimited support incidents

Support hours

Basic: 8×5
Professional: 24×7
Enterprise: 24×7

Target initial response time

Basic: 8 hours
Professional: 2 hours
Enterprise: 30 minutes

Answers about documentation

Basic: 24 hours
Professional: 8 hours
Enterprise: 2 hours

Customer named contacts

Basic: 2
Professional: 5
Enterprise: 5+

Phone support

Available with Professional and Enterprise support

Hot bug fixes

Available with Professional and Enterprise support

07.

Pricing per instance

Open Source NGINX

NGINX Plus

Software availability

Community download

Private repository at nginx.com

Supported platforms

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Annual Support (Basic) from NGINX, Inc.

$1,900 per instance

Annual Support (Professional) from NGINX, Inc.

$3,000 per instance

Annual Support (Enterprise) from NGINX, Inc.

$4,500 per instance

Volume and unlimited-use pricing

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