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VERDICT

Should I use Infragistics?

See What's New in Infragistics Ultimate 26.1 - infragistics.com

Depends. Buy if you're an enterprise Microsoft-stack team shipping data-heavy apps and per-dev fees fit budget. Skip it for small teams or simple apps — free open-source UI kits will do.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~45 public sources; review snippets were truncated, so no verbatim user quotes were available.

Ratings

  • Value for moneyReddit debates cost; no rating evidence
  • Ease of useNo usability ratings in sources
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityPriority support sold; no quality data
  • Security posture

Pricing

$1,295/yr

Ignite UI

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Infragistics UltimateSee pricing page

Best for

  • Enterprise .NET teams
  • Data-heavy dashboards
  • Blazor/Angular line-of-business apps
  • Embedded analytics via Reveal

Not for

  • Solo devs on free stacks
  • Startups watching budget
  • Simple sites or prototypes
  • Teams avoiding vendor lock-in

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Renewal lapse stops updates and support; budget annual renewals into cost

medium

Old CVEs (2010 WebHtmlEditor, 2016 CVE-2016-10552) may linger in deployed legacy apps

low

Third-party Drift widget security notice posted; audit embedded chat scripts on your sites

low

Per-dev annual pricing varies by bundle; confirm current list prices before committing

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Covers Angular, Blazor, React, WinForms, WPF plus BI and design-to-code
  • Reveal named G2 Leader in embedded BI (2022)
  • 30+ years in market, bootstrapped without venture capital
  • Enterprise-scale customers including Fujitsu partnership across 162,000 employees
  • Active release cadence — Ultimate 25.1 shipped May 2025

Cons

  • Legacy products carry disclosed vulnerabilities from 2010 and 2016
  • Lapsed subscription cuts off updates and support
  • Developers on Reddit still debate paying for UI libraries
  • Multiple Reddit comparisons pivot to Radzen instead
  • Modest review footprint (138 G2 reviews) for a 30-year vendor

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/26/2026 - 14 sources - No recent breaches found; two old disclosures on record (2010 WebHtmlEditor, 2016 missing-encryption CVE).

official x3review x5security x3news x3
  • CVE-2016-10552, Missing encryption of sensitive data in an Infragistics product.
  • WebHtmlEditor 7.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities, Disclosed 2010 against the legacy editor control.

Key stats

  • Feature depth: 4/5

    Rating

  • $1,295/yr

    Starting price

  • 14

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money. Reddit debates cost; no rating evidence
  • Ease of use. No usability ratings in sources
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Multi-framework suite plus BI and design-to-code
  • Support quality. Priority support sold; no quality data
  • Security posture: 3/5. Two old CVEs; active security pages
  • 138 G2 reviews across Infragistics products
  • $1,295/yr Ignite UI price per TrustRadius comparison
  • $50M Innovation fund launched 2021, self-funded
  • 30+ years In market bootstrapped, no VC

Pricing

Ignite UI

$1,295/yr

  • JS, Angular, Blazor, React components
  • High-performance grids and charts

Infragistics Ultimate

See pricing page

  • All platforms incl. WinForms, WPF
  • Adds App Builder and Reveal BI

Security

No recent breaches found; two old disclosures on record (2010 WebHtmlEditor, 2016 missing-encryption CVE).

  • CVE-2016-10552Missing encryption of sensitive data in an Infragistics product.⁶
  • WebHtmlEditor 7.1 Multiple VulnerabilitiesDisclosed 2010 against the legacy editor control.⁷

What users say

G2 and Gartner carry ratings across Infragistics toolkits (138 G2 reviews), while Reddit threads show developers weighing paid suites against free options.

Companies that use it

  • Fujitsu12
  • Keysight Technologies
  • TEG Analytics
  • Penn State
Full analysis

Based on ~45 public sources; review snippets were truncated, so no verbatim user quotes were available.

Enterprise UI component suite that only pays off on data-heavy .NET/Angular apps; overkill for small teams.

Methodology

Based on ~45 public sources; review snippets were truncated, so no verbatim user quotes were available.

Sources

  1. Infragistics Products on G2g2.com
    review
  2. Infragistics App Builder Reviews — Gartnergartner.com
    review
  3. Anyone using Ignite UI for Blazor in a real project?reddit.com
    review
  4. Are there people who still use paid libraries?reddit.com
    review
  5. App Builder by Infragistics vs Wrike — TrustRadiustrustradius.com
    review
  6. CVE-2016-10552 — NVDnvd.nist.gov
    security
  7. Infragistics WebHtmlEditor 7.1 — Exploit-DBexploit-db.com
    security
  8. Infragistics CVEs — OpenCVEapp.opencve.io
    security
  9. Infragistics Product Pricinginfragistics.com
    official
  10. Subscription Renewal — What You Loseinfragistics.com
    official
  11. Infragistics Innovation Lab — 30 yearsinfragistics.com
    official
  12. Infragistics and Fujitsu Global Partnershipinfragistics.com
    news
  13. Reveal Named G2 Embedded BI Leaderthescxchange.com
    news
  14. Infragistics Ultimate 25.1 Releaseddevopsdigest.com
    news

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