User Reviews of IBM API Connect & Kong Gateway Enterprise
Updated April 2025
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IBM API Connect review
KavitaChavan
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Quite flexible and provides excellent performance for API gateway
The only disadvantage I can see is that it requires heavy hardware support, which can be considered quite expensive. In terms of new functionality, I think the analytics can be improved in V10. The analytics feature was better in the older version, 2.18. But in V10, it's not as flexible. When exporting analytics as KSP or JSON, it's not...
Kong Gateway Enterprise review
AmitKanodia
Cloud & Integration CoE Head at Capgemini
Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script
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...
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