G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Load Balancing vs. F5 NGINX Ingress Controller

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

MetricGoogle Cloud Load Balancing

by Google

F5 NGINX Ingress Controller

by F5

Overall rating4.44.6
Review count2717
Ease of use8.49.2
Ease of setup8.59.2
Quality of support8.89.4
Meets requirements9.09.4
NPS61.53846276.470588
Small Business48.1%11.8%
Mid-Market22.2%64.7%
Enterprise29.6%23.5%
Total page views109162
Total LLM citations348587

Google Cloud Load Balancing

High performance, scalable load balancing on Google Cloud Platform

Pros

  • Integrations
  • Ease of Use
  • Cloud Computing
  • Solutions Approach
  • Azure Services
  • Customer Support

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.

Pros

  • Integrations
  • Scaling
  • Traffic Management
  • Configuration Ease