We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect 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."API Connect's data gateway is one of the strongest in the market."
"Its speed and performance are valuable."
"The functionalities on offer are very good."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"We are able to share those APIs instantly within the organization; even if we want to share it outside publicly, then we can have those capabilities."
"DataPower Gateway holds significant value for us as it serves as the cornerstone of our enterprise security controls."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can seamlessly and harmoniously expose our capabilities, from a security point of view."
"The solution provides a common place for all APIs, allowing for easy sharing and exchange of information between internal and external stakeholders."
"The solution provides good performance."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a SaaS solution that can be deployed into the cloud."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"The platform’s integration with the payment gateway needs enhancement. The setup process and support services could be improved."
"The automation and the simplicity could be improved."
"Extracting the data could be improved."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"We have asked IBM for scalability and for some other features that we wanted. We had a dialogue with them and in the end, they have agreed to provide us with features related to API setup and security."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"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."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"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."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". 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 API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our IBM API Connect vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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