Calico vs. VMware NSX
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Calico | VMware NSX |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.5 | 4.4 |
| Review count | 42 | 92 |
| Ease of use | 8.7 | 8.3 |
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 8.3 |
| Quality of support | 9.3 | 8.3 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 8.8 |
| NPS | 59.52381 | 58.333333 |
| Small Business | 28.6% | 31.9% |
| Mid-Market | 35.7% | 31.9% |
| Enterprise | 35.7% | 36.3% |
| Total page views | 348 | 233 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,115 | 577 |
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
VMware NSX
VMware NSX® is a powerful network virtualization solution for VMware Cloud Foundation™ (VCF) that enables network connectivity, operations, and scale. NSX Network Virtualization brings the simplicity of the cloud operating model to networking, allowing you to streamline, accelerate, and scale both traditional and modern applications in private/hybrid clouds.
- Ease of Use
- Security
- Features
- Easy Integrations
- Security Compliance
- Network Management