NetScaler vs. Calico
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | NetScaler | Calico |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| Review count | 85 | 42 |
| Ease of use | 8.8 | 8.7 |
| Ease of setup | 8.5 | 8.7 |
| Quality of support | 8.6 | 9.3 |
| Meets requirements | 9.2 | 9.4 |
| NPS | 58.75 | 59.52381 |
| Small Business | 8.2% | 28.6% |
| Mid-Market | 29.4% | 35.7% |
| Enterprise | 62.4% | 35.7% |
| Total page views | 396 | 348 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,947 | 1,115 |
NetScaler
NetScaler is the application delivery and security platform of choice for the world’s largest companies. Thousands of organizations worldwide including eBay, IKEA, and Aria — and more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on NetScaler for high-performance application delivery, comprehensive application and API security, and deep observability. NetScaler is a business unit of Cloud Software Group.
- Ease of Management
- Speed
- Management Ease
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Ease of Use
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