We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other companies and must ensure they adhere to their allocated usage limits. Without rate limiting, there's a risk of excessive usage, which could result in significant costs."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"Kong Enterprise needs to improve its pricing, which starts at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pricing should be based on API usage rather than monthly. It should improve its documentation as well."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and Layer7 API Management.
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