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Nginx pricing
Nginx publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the web development tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Nginx plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Nginx stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Web server
- Reverse proxy
- Load balancing
- SSL termination
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Nginx lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Nginx feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- High-performance web server
- Reverse proxy
- Load balancing
- HTTP caching
- SSL/TLS termination
- Gzip compression
- Rate limiting
- Static file serving
Integrations
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Let's Encrypt
- Cloudflare
- AWS
- PHP-FPM
- uWSGI
- Passenger
Security
- SSL/TLS
- Rate limiting
- Access control
- DDoS protection
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Containerized deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Freebsd support
Localization
- Configuration syntax language support
People bring Nginx in for http web server and static file serving, reverse proxy and load balancer, tls/ssl termination (sni, http/2, http/3), content caching, kubernetes ingress controller backend, tcp/udp stream proxying. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Nginx are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Web Development
Too few web development tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Nginx badges page.
Before you pay for Nginx
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Nginx runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by F5 Networks (Nginx Inc) of Moscow, Russia. The full record is on the Nginx review, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.
Nginx pricing questions
- How much does Nginx cost?
- Nginx publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Nginx have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers web server, reverse proxy, load balancing.
- Which web development tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside Nginx have a free tier: FastAPI, Django, Astro, Carrd, .NET.
- What am I actually paying for with Nginx?
- The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for http web server and static file serving, reverse proxy and load balancer, tls/ssl termination (sni, http/2, http/3).
- Does Nginx charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Nginx prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Nginx against before paying?
- The closest web development tools in this directory are FastAPI, Django, Astro, Carrd. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Nginx covering price, platforms and features.