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."This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"The solution provides good performance."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"Within the new version, webMethods API Gateway gives us an end-to-end lifecycle from the creation of the API up into the development, deployment, and promotion into production/live. The current end-to-end lifecycle of the API gives us enough authority and governance of the API. We know what are currently live services, what is in the testing stage of development, and what version that has been commissioned. So, the full life cycle itself gives us full authority and governance of the API."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"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."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"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."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"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."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
"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."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 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, Apigee and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, webMethods Microgateway, CentraSite and 3scale API Management. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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