We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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 solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The solution is stable."
"Its initial setup was straightforward."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"The solution is robust."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"The solution provides good performance."
"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 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."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"Its support services could be better."
"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"The ease of billing is lost when Kong is not available directly on the Azure marketplace. This is one area where they can improve."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". 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". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apache APISIX, Apigee and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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