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."Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Git integration"
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."
"The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other companies and must ensure they adhere to their allocated usage limits. Without rate limiting, there's a risk of excessive usage, which could result in significant costs."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"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 technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"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."
"From an improvement perspective, the product should offer more readily available connectors and also allow for more seamless AI integrations."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
Earn 20 points
Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 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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