Calico vs. F5 NGINX
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Calico | F5 NGINX |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| Review count | 42 | 113 |
| Ease of use | 8.7 | 8.7 |
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 8.6 |
| Quality of support | 9.3 | 8.1 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 9.4 |
| NPS | 59.52381 | 76.785714 |
| Small Business | 28.6% | 39.8% |
| Mid-Market | 35.7% | 39.8% |
| Enterprise | 35.7% | 20.4% |
| Total page views | 348 | 1,370 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,115 | 7,495 |
Calico
The Calico platform, built on the most trusted open-source technologies in Kubernetes — Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF — provides a single management plane for secure networking and observability for AI workloads. It can be deployed as Calico Cloud, a fully-managed SaaS platform, or Calico Enterprise, a self-managed platform. Calico works with popular managed Kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS, and GKE, as well as self-managed Kubernetes distributions including Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE/Rancher, VMware Tanzu, and Mirantis.
- Ease of Use
- Security
- Customer Support
- Policy Management
- Features
- Visibility
F5 NGINX
NGINX, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.
- Configuration Ease