Calico vs. F5 NGINX Ingress Controller
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Calico | F5 NGINX Ingress Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| Review count | 42 | 17 |
| Ease of use | 8.7 | 9.2 |
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 9.2 |
| Quality of support | 9.3 | 9.4 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 9.4 |
| NPS | 59.52381 | 76.470588 |
| Small Business | 28.6% | 11.8% |
| Mid-Market | 35.7% | 64.7% |
| Enterprise | 35.7% | 23.5% |
| Total page views | 348 | 162 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,115 | 587 |
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 Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller provides Kubernetes traffic management with API gateway, identity, and observability features. NGINX Ingress Controller provides a feature set to secure, strengthen, and scale containerized apps, including: Advanced app‑centric configuration – Use role‑based access control (RBAC) and self‑service to set up security guardrails (not gates), so teams can manage their apps securely and with agility. Enable multi‑tenancy, reusability, and simpler configs.
- Integrations
- Scaling
- Traffic Management
- Configuration Ease