We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management 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."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."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"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."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"Mobile app capabilities is good for building mobile apps to consume developed APIs. Also, the API Portal capabilities are very nice, up to and including the ability to do monetization. Security features are exhaustive, with several adapters to all leading identity suites."
"The initial setup process is easy and flexible."
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"Ease of use."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"The Mobile API Gateway is also great."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"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."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"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 overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"The product's initial setup phase is not very straightforward, making it an area where improvements are required."
"As well as the SOA Gateway - that is, the API Gateway; we call it the SOA Gateway - we also are now deploying the developer portal component of the SOA Gateway. That has limitations."
"The development portal could be improved."
"One specific feature that we need is the ability to authenticate directly to the server with API data. It's not complex nowadays. This is a feature that we need and CA doesn't have it."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"As the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. 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 Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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