NGINX API Gateway vs Runscope comparison

F5 and Broadcom are both solutions in the API Monitoring Software category. F5 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while Broadcom is ranked #3. F5 holds a 13.2% mindshare in AMS, compared to Broadcom’s 14.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between NGINX API Gateway and Runscope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two API Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX API Gateway

Ranking in API Monitoring Software

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

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Runscope

Ranking in API Monitoring Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the API Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NGINX API Gateway is 13.2%, down from 17.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Runscope is 14.0%, down from 18.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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M.A. Faisal

General Manager at bKash Limited

A scalable and affordable solution that performs well and provides excellent technical support

If we publish API or GET requests, sometimes someone can do a POST request of the API. Such security violations are not visible in the product. Other solutions provide such security features. The product does not provide visibility into the security loopholes in the authentication and authorization mechanism. The product must improve its security features. It has protection capabilities, but it must provide better visibility on the dashboard. The dashboard must be improved a lot.

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Director5672

Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Enables us to monitor API endpoints to ensure everything is running

I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens. Another thing I have found is that the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug. Finally, other than the Runscope documentation, I haven't seen too much elsewhere. I haven't seen a user community.

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

Pros

"We do not face any lags."

"It's easy to install, and the performance is good."

"API routing is the most valuable feature."

"It is a cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, which allows me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results."

"We utilize modular tests based on environment variables. These have saved QA a lot of time when setting up our back-end automation."

"It is a relatively reliable tool for running big amounts of API tests, which you can schedule to run periodically, as the product is very good."

"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."

"The feature of automatically executing tests at a predefined time interval is great as we can be continuously testing our end-points before and after builds are deployed."

"When it's a problem on our side, the server is down, or there is a lack of memory, the first thing to break is the API, because the calls can't be processed. So we know exactly at that moment because we receive notifications, and we can take action. It doesn't only notify us of the type problem, but it also links it to our servers."

"Tests are per-step configurable with script capabilities and support for token-based authentication using variables. Configurable test frequency and integration with both Slack and PagerDuty for alerting our DevOps team are also important. General use of the dashboard by multiple team members is also valuable."

"Valuable features include: Being able to add tests as sub-tests in a parent test for regression testing; notifications for tests that pass/fail; being able to customize expected results with assertions; being able to set tests to run daily."

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Cons

"The product must improve its security features."

"The UI could be more attractive."

"It could be more secure because security is always a problem."

"I would like to see easier integration and display of test results so that the data could be shared via a dashboard within our company. (Some integration is possible, provided you use one of the supported platforms)."

"The user interface requires a lot of clicking around."

"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."

"If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time."

"Navigation can be a little tricky when changing run environments and switching between test run results and editing the tests. It would be nice if you could switch the environment for all tests in a Bucket to run, rather than having to change each test environment."

"Currently, we can only schedule to the nearest five minutes, one hour, two hours, etc. If we could set up the exact time that we want it to run, that would be good because sometimes we have one service that crosses another service."

"The initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work."

"One thing that can be improved is the logging. Sometimes, when we have an error, we don't know how to find more information about the problem that has happened. Sometimes, it just returns something like "that gateway." More information would be a way to improve it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the open-source version."

"We are using the open source version, so there is no cost involved."

"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"

"The price for the product is very reasonable for a team of more than four to five members."

"Pricing is fair."

"Having the different plans organized by team size, buckets, and requests per billing period works for our needs. Larger companies may need to take a close look at these elements."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NGINX API Gateway?

We do not face any lags.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX API Gateway?

We are using the open-source version. We are planning to buy the licensed version. The solution costs less in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Overview

The NGINX Plus API gateway authenticates API calls, routes requests to appropriate backends, applies rate limits to prevent overloading services and to mitigate volumetric attacks, offloads SSL/TLS traffic, and handles errors and exceptions. NGINX's API gateway takes all API requests from a client, determines which services are needed, and delivers the result in a high‑performance manner.

NGINX Plus API gateway is used to protect APIs with rate‑limiting policies, enforce specific request methods, and provide fine‑grained access control:

Ensures application backends are not overwhelmed by a problematic or malicious API clients through rate limits based on attribute of the request.
NGINX Plus allows only specific request methods for app services. For example, you can accept only the GET method to ensure that access to your inventory service is read‑only (just returns the inventory).
Controls access to specific resources using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). For example, you can allow write access to a service for API clients with admin credentials, but only read access for clients with standard user credentials.

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Twilio, Microsoft, Adobe, Okta, Tesco, Charter Communications

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