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 route limiting feature is very valuable."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"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."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"There were no complexities involved in the setup phase...The product is able to meet my company's API protection needs."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"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."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"In terms of improvements, maybe on the API monetization side, having users able to create separate consumption plans and throttle all those consumption plans towards the run time could be better."
"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."
"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 price has room for improvement."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th 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, Apache APISIX, Apigee and Layer7 API Management, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, webMethods Microgateway, 3scale API Management and CentraSite. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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