We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and webMethods API Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"Within the new version, webMethods API Gateway gives us an end-to-end lifecycle from the creation of the API up into the development, deployment, and promotion into production/live. The current end-to-end lifecycle of the API gives us enough authority and governance of the API. We know what are currently live services, what is in the testing stage of development, and what version that has been commissioned. So, the full life cycle itself gives us full authority and governance of the API."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution for me has been the configuration-based UI. Once you get the hang of it, it enables you to easily develop an API. In addition, it has many in-built policies that are quite handy."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"There were no complexities involved in the setup phase...The product is able to meet my company's API protection needs."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"The configuring of the JWT token would be improved as it is a confusing process. We require more information on this part of the solution."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"There are things that could be improved with the webMethods API gateway. One thing is that it's too attached to the integration service and we'd like it to be a little bit more independent. We would like for them to separate operations so that it doesn't rely on the bulky integration server and so that it can be used everywhere."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee and Apache APISIX, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, 3scale API Management, webMethods Microgateway and CentraSite. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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