We performed a comparison between Apiary 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."I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Git integration"
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"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."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"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 is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". 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". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management, 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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