Citrix ADC (NetScaler)
An application delivery platform that helps enterprise IT scale and secure their applications
- Vendor
- Citrix
- Also known as
- citrix-adc-netscaler
What is Citrix ADC (NetScaler)?
A comprehensive application delivery and security platform trusted by thousands of enterprises and a majority of Fortune 500 companies for high-performance application delivery, security, and observability.
Citrix ADC (NetScaler) pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Subscription-based licensing with multiple capacity options; contact sales for pricing details
Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud License
Contact salesComprehensive license supporting Citrix applications and NetScaler across any deployment environment with 1 Tbps throughput capacity
- throughput
- 1,000 Gbps
- virtual_ips
- Unlimited
- netscaler_instances
- Unlimited
- Citrix and NetScaler software entitlements
- All NetScaler instance types (single tenant, multi-tenant, virtualized, containerized, bare metal)
- Unlimited NetScaler software instances
- Premium application and API protection
- End-to-end observability with NetScaler Console
- Software support included
- On-demand training
Citrix Platform License
Contact salesExtended license providing unlimited throughput capacity with all Universal License benefits
- throughput
- Unlimited Gbps
- Unlimited Gbps throughput capacity
- End-to-end observability via NetScaler Console
NetScaler Fixed-Capacity License
Contact salesLicense for a defined number of NetScaler instances scaled to specific throughput requirements
- Defined number of NetScaler software instances
- NetScaler Console not required
Web-Scale Application Deployments
Contact salesCustom subscription options for applications requiring rapid scaling and high concurrent user support
- Rapid scaling capabilities
- Support for large concurrent user loads
What Citrix ADC (NetScaler) does
The capabilities that matter for load balancers, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Layer
- -
- Deployment form
- -
- Tls termination
- -
- Http2 http3 support
- -
- Gslb multi region
- -
- K8s ingress or gateway API
- ✓
- WAF bundled
- -
- Autoscaling integration
- -
- Health check depth
- -
- Session persistence
- -
- Fips 140 validated
- -
- Open source
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (13)
Independently observed- Red Hat OpenShift
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Kubernetes
- Splunk
- Prometheus
- Elasticsearch
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Let's Encrypt
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Citrix DaaS
- Microsoft 365
Citrix ADC (NetScaler) FAQ
Common questions about Citrix ADC (NetScaler), answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Citrix ADC (NetScaler)?
A comprehensive application delivery and security platform trusted by thousands of enterprises and a majority of Fortune 500 companies for high-performance application delivery, security, and observability. It is indexed under Load Balancers.
Source: https://www.netscaler.com
How much does Citrix ADC (NetScaler) cost?
Citrix ADC (NetScaler) does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 4 plans (Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud License, Citrix Platform License, NetScaler Fixed-Capacity License and Web-Scale Application Deployments), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Citrix ADC (NetScaler) support?
Citrix ADC (NetScaler) supports Linux. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Citrix ADC (NetScaler) be self-hosted?
Yes. Citrix ADC (NetScaler) can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What does Citrix ADC (NetScaler) integrate with?
We have confirmed 13 integrations for Citrix ADC (NetScaler), including Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, Splunk, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and Terraform, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Citrix ADC (NetScaler) alternatives
Other load balancers we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AWS Elastic Load BalancingAutomatically distribute application traffic across multiple computing resourceslow · 25%
- Envoy Proxylow · 27%
- Cloudflare Load BalancingCloud-agnostic traffic distribution with automatic multi-region failoverlow · 20%
- NGINXA lightweight, high-performance web server and reverse proxylow · 6%
- MetalLBlow · 14%
- Google Cloud Load BalancingA managed service that distributes traffic across applications for optimal performance and reliabilitylow · 7%
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Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Citrix ADC (NetScaler), not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | 33 | 0.05 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.05 | 1.5 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
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