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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. F5 NGINX

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

by F5

F5 NGINX

by F5

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count40113
Ease of use9.18.7
Ease of setup8.98.6
Quality of support8.88.1
Meets requirements9.39.4
NPS73.52941276.785714
Small Business8.1%39.8%
Mid-Market21.6%39.8%
Enterprise70.3%20.4%
Total page views1861,370
Total LLM citations1,1467,495

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. LTM's full proxy architecture give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications.

Pros

  • Features
  • Configuration Ease
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Load Balancing
  • Simple

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.

Pros

  • Configuration Ease