NGINX API Gateway Reviews

Vendor: F5

4.2 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is NGINX API Gateway?

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.

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NGINX API Gateway is the #2 ranked solution in API Monitoring Software. PeerSpot users give NGINX API Gateway an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. NGINX API Gateway is most commonly compared to Postman: NGINX API Gateway vs Postman.

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Featured NGINX API Gateway reviews

M.A. Faisal

General Manager at bKash Limited

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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Narendra-Singh

SR IT administrator at Cardinal Integrated Technologies Inc

We use NGINX for API routing. API is an open-source solution. It serves as a reverse proxy, routing users to our services without leaving us exposed. API routing is the most valuable feature. The UI could be more attractive. I have used API Gateway for about three months. I rate NGINX API…

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Murat Gultekin

Presales Consultant - Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

We use it for container deployment, mostly for Kubernetes. Sometimes, we also use it for testing purposes. The images download and show some features of Kubernetes or containers. I am using it for my own personal learning purposes It's easy to install, and the performance is good. It could be…

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NGINX API Gateway mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of NGINX API Gateway in the API Monitoring Software category stands at 12.2%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"We do not face any lags."
"API routing is the most valuable feature."
"It's easy to install, and the performance is good."

Room for Improvement

"The product must improve its security features."
"The UI could be more attractive."
"It could be more secure because security is always a problem."

Pricing

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

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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.