Invicti vs NGINX App Protect comparison

Invicti and F5 are both solutions in the Container Security category. Invicti is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.5, while F5 is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.5. Invicti holds a 0.6% mindshare in Container Security, compared to F5’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Invicti users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of F5 users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Invicti and NGINX App Protect are competing in the web application security space. Invicti tends to have an advantage in pricing and support, while NGINX App Protect offers superior features that make it a worthwhile investment for many.

Features: Invicti provides thorough vulnerability detection, API testing capabilities, and an intuitive interactive interface. Its proof-based scanning and minimal manual intervention enhance security assessments. NGINX App Protect integrates seamlessly with cloud-native environments, offers advanced API security management, and includes strong traffic management and auto-learning features to safeguard applications.

Room for Improvement: Invicti could improve its integration with cloud environments, enhance API security options, and extend its vulnerability confirmation processes. NGINX App Protect might benefit from more straightforward deployment for smaller environments, a simplified configuration process for basic setups, and enhanced support documentation to ease integration complexities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Invicti is praised for its quick configuration and simple deployment adaptable to various environments, with efficient customer support. NGINX App Protect has a robust integration process, particularly beneficial for those using NGINX servers, supported by strong customer service, which helps navigate its complex setup requirements.

Pricing and ROI: Invicti offers a cost-effective solution that often delivers significant ROI through its automated processes and comprehensive testing. NGINX App Protect may have higher initial costs, but these are offset by its enhanced protection capabilities and integration benefits, providing a substantial return on investment for organizations requiring deep integration and robust feature sets.

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Categories and Ranking

Invicti

Ranking in Container Security

25th

Ranking in API Security

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (11th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (8th), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (5th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (5th)

NGINX App Protect

Ranking in Container Security

27th

Ranking in API Security

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Application Firewall (WAF) (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of Invicti is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX App Protect is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Security Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Invicti	0.6%
NGINX App Protect	0.4%
Other	99.0%

Container Security

Featured Reviews

Valavan Sivgalingam

Senior Manager, Security Engineering at ESS

Dynamic testing regularly identifies web vulnerabilities and has strong false positive confirmations

It has good false positive confirmations, confirmed issues identification, and proof of exploit-related features as part of it. We use Invicti for these things in our portfolios. The solution includes Proof-Based Scanning technology. Invicti is part of our SSDLC portfolio, and DAST dynamic testing is very important for our web applications and portfolios. For both the API endpoints and web applications, we do regular testing on a monthly basis for all our releases. Invicti does a good job. The only concern is on the performance side, but other than that, we find it really helpful in identifying web vulnerabilities. A full scan takes more time based on your website and other factors, but for us, it takes more than two to three days. The scan performance can be improved upon. When we check with them, they discuss proof-based scanning and related aspects. However, there could be intermittent results that could help us.

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Jean-Marc Porchet

Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Blocking IPs and detecting bots enhances security for medical websites

I was researching products like NGINX App Protect and F5 Advanced WAF for long-term options. I have some use for such a solution, but probably not before next year Detecting bots and blocking IPs have proven effective for securing applications. We were able to block groups of IP addresses that…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Scan, proxify the application, and then detailed report along with evidence and remediations to problems."

"The scanner is light on the network and does not impact the network when scans are running."

"The dashboard is really cool, and the features are really good. It tells you about the software version you're using in your web application. It gives you the entire technology stack, and that really helps. Both web and desktop apps are good in terms of application scanning. It has a lot of security checks that are easily customizable as per your requirements. It also has good customer support."

"Invicti's best feature is the ability to identify vulnerabilities and manually verify them."

"I would rate the stability as ten out of ten."

"The best features of Invicti are its ability to confirm access vulnerabilities, SSL injection vulnerabilities, and its connectors to other security tools."

"It correctly parses DOM and JS and has really good support for URL Rewrite rules, which is important for today's websites."

"I like that it's stable and technical support is great."

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"I would say that the most valuable feature is the ability to operate in a DevOps environment and to be configured through API and pipeline by the developers themselves."

"The tool is not complex and is very user-friendly."

"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."

"There's a cache, or it works like a proxy, so it can speed up applications."

"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source."

"It is a stable solution."

"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."

"Overall, I rate NGINX App Protect between eight and nine."

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Cons

"Currently, there is nothing I would like to improve."

"Invicti takes too long with big applications, and there are issues with the login portal."

"It would be better for listing and attacking Java-based web applications to exploit vulnerabilities."

"Invicti's reporting capabilities need enhancement."

"Invicti's reporting capabilities need enhancement. We need enterprise-level information instead of repo-level details. Unlike Appiro, Invicti does not provide portfolio-level insights into vulnerability remediation over time."

"They don't really provide the proof of concept up to the level that we need in our organization. We are a consultancy firm, and we provide consultancy for the implementation and deployment solutions to our customers. When you run the scans and the scan is completed, it only shows the proof of exploit, which really doesn't work because the tool is running the scan and exploiting on the read-only form. You don't really know whether it is actually giving the proof of exploit. We cannot prove it manually to a customer that the exploit is genuine. It is really hard to perform it manually and prove it to the concerned development, remediation, and security teams. It is currently missing the static application security part of the application security, especially web application security. It would be really cool if they can integrate a SAS tool with their dynamic one."

"Reporting should be improved. The reporting options should be made better for end-users. Currently, it is possible, but it's not the best. Being able to choose what I want to see in my reports rather than being given prefixed information would make my life easier. I had to depend on the API for getting the content that I wanted. If they could fix the reporting feature to make it more comprehensive and user-friendly, it would help a lot of end-users. Everything else was good about this product."

"The license could be better. It would help if they could allow us to scan multiple URLs on the same license. It's a major hindrance that we are facing while scanning applications, and we have to be sure that the URLs are the same and not different so that we do not end up consuming another license for it. Netsparker is one of the costliest products in the market. The licensing is tied to the URL, and it's restricted. If you have a URL that you scanned once, like a website, you cannot retry that same license. If you are scanning the same website but in a different domain or different URL, you might end up paying for a second license. It would also be better if they provided proper support for multi-factor authentications. In the next release, I would like them to include good multi-factor authentication support."

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"The product's price is high, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. The tool's licensing model is also not good."

"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."

"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."

"The product's user interface is an area with shortcomings as it can be quite confusing for users, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks."

"Currently, the policies have to be handled manually, and you have to create from scratch, which can be a bit time-consuming, in a large environment."

"NGINX App Protect would be improved with integration with Shape and F5 WAF, which would make it easy for users to manage all their web application security with a single solution."

"Setting policies and parameters through the UI should be more automated because the process is manual, where we can only edit one rule at a time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Invicti is best suited for large enterprises. I don't think small and medium-sized businesses can afford it. Maintenance costs aren't that great."

"Netsparker is one of the costliest products in the market. It would help if they could allow us to scan multiple URLs on the same license."

"We are using an NFR license and I do not know the exact price of the NFR license. I think 20 FQDN for three years would cost around 35,000 US Dollars."

"OWASP Zap is free and it has live updates, so that's a big plus."

"It is competitive in the security market."

"The price should be 20% lower"

"We never had any issues with the licensing; the price was within our assigned limits."

"I think that price it too high, like other Security applications such as Acunetix, WebInspect, and so on."

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"The pricing is reasonable because NGINX operates on an instance basis."

"Really understand the licensing model, because we underestimated that."

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"There are not any additional costs we had to pay to use NGINX App Protect."

"There is a license needed to use NGINX App Protect."

"Our licensing costs are about $40,000 a year."

"The price of NGINX App Protect is not much different from the products that fall under the leader category of Gartner Magic Quadrant."

"NGINX is not expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner?

The setup cost is pretty competitive. For example, if you want to talk about the SAST license, it comes to about $150 or sometimes less than $100, depending on the conversion or the number of licen...

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What needs improvement with Invicti?

At this time, there is nothing that comes to mind. However, most of the products in the market are pretty much neck-to-neck competitors. Speaking about it, there are a couple of factors which they ...

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What is your primary use case for Invicti?

I have worked on a couple of products, specifically in web application security. I have worked on Invicti, and with respect to PAM, I have worked with BeyondTrust. I have not worked specifically fo...

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What do you like most about NGINX App Protect?

It's very easy to deploy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX App Protect?

I don't know the pricing yet because in my other project, I was not part of the buying side and I was just starting to look at options.

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What needs improvement with NGINX App Protect?

It would be better if it were easier to implement and if there was more information from F5 regarding hardware requirements and specifications to deploy the service, to avoid disruptions after impl...

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Also Known As

Netsparker

NGINX WAF, NGINX Web Application Firewall

Overview

Invicti helps DevSecOps teams automate security tasks and save hundreds of hours each month by identifying web vulnerabilities that matter. Combining dynamic with interactive testing (DAST + IAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), Invicti scans every corner of an app to find what other tools miss with 99.98% accuracy, delivering on the promise of Zero Noise AppSec. Invicti helps discover all web assets — even ones that are lost, forgotten, or created by rogue departments. With an array of out-of-the-box integrations, DevSecOps teams can get ahead of their workloads to hit critical deadlines, improve processes, and communicate more effectively while reducing risk and hitting the ROI goals.

Invicti

NGINX App Protect application security solution combines the efficacy of advanced F5 web application firewall (WAF) technology with the agility and performance of NGINX Plus. The solution runs natively on NGINX Plus and addresses some of the most difficult challenges facing modern DevOps environments:

Integrating security controls directly into the development automation pipeline
Applying and managing security for modern and distributed application environments such as containers and microservices
Providing the right level of security controls without impacting release and go-to-market velocity
Complying with security and regulatory requirements

NGINX App Protect offers:

Expanded security beyond basic signatures to ensure adequate controls
F5 app‑security technology for efficacy superior to ModSecurity and other WAFs
Confidently run in “blocking” mode in production with proven F5 expertise
High‑confidence signatures for extremely low false positives
Increases visibility, integrating with third‑party analytics solutions
Integrates security and WAF natively into the CI/CD pipeline
Deploys as a lightweight software package that is agnostic of underlying infrastructure
Facilitates declarative policies for “security as code” and integration with DevOps tools
Decreases developer burden and provides feedback loop for quick security remediation
Accelerates time to market and reduces costs with DevSecOps‑automated security

Sample Customers

Samsung, The Walt Disney Company, T-Systems, ING Bank

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