NetScaler vs. Istio
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | NetScaler | Istio |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.4 | 4.2 |
| Review count | 85 | 18 |
| Ease of use | 8.8 | 8.1 |
| Ease of setup | 8.5 | 7.1 |
| Quality of support | 8.6 | 7.9 |
| Meets requirements | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| NPS | 58.75 | 55.555556 |
| Small Business | 8.2% | 27.8% |
| Mid-Market | 29.4% | 16.7% |
| Enterprise | 62.4% | 55.6% |
| Total page views | 396 | 114 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,947 | 144 |
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
Istio
Istio’s traffic routing rules let you easily control the flow of traffic and API calls between services. Istio simplifies configuration of service-level properties like circuit breakers, timeouts, and retries, and makes it easy to set up important tasks like A/B testing, canary rollouts, and staged rollouts with percentage-based traffic splits. It also provides out-of-box failure recovery features that help make your application more robust against failures of dependent services or the network.