Kong Gateway Enterprise vs OpenLegacy comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

OpenLegacy and Kong Gateway Enterprise are prominent players in the API management and integration market. OpenLegacy has an advantage in cost-efficiency and usability for legacy systems, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is recognized for its extensive features suitable for microservices architecture.

Features: OpenLegacy excels in seamless legacy application integration, offers fast API creation, and is adaptable to various environments. Kong Gateway Enterprise is known for robust API management, scalability, and cloud-native environment support.

Room for Improvement: OpenLegacy could enhance scalability features and extend support for modern architectures. It might benefit from advanced security options and more robust monitoring tools. Kong Gateway Enterprise could focus on simplifying its deployment process, reducing initial configuration complexity, and lowering setup costs for smaller enterprises.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenLegacy is praised for its simple deployment and minimal configuration requirements, providing efficient customer support. Kong Gateway Enterprise, while more complex to deploy due to extensive capabilities, is supported by comprehensive tools tailored for microservices with responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: OpenLegacy is appealing due to lower setup costs and rapid ROI from its seamless integration with existing infrastructure. Kong Gateway Enterprise, although requiring a higher initial investment, provides significant ROI with a comprehensive feature set that enhances functionality in large-scale environments.

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Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. OpenLegacy

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Categories and Ranking

Kong Gateway Enterprise

Ranking in API Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenLegacy

Ranking in API Management

36th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Kong Gateway Enterprise is 7.0%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenLegacy is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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ASHOK YADAV

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers OIDC, Rate Limiting, Lambda functions but lacks software upgrades

Upgrading Kong Gateway Enterprise should be more sophisticated and innovative. The main issue is with the update process. Our DevOps and admin teams need to update multiple files, which is cumbersome. For instance, in cases where Palantir countries are involved, they have to update many files, which is not ideal. However, for other tasks like configuring the message routing and services and handling all the configurations, the process is acceptable. The software version upgrade process should be improved. Additionally, the DevOps portal should be integrated more natively. There are a few other areas for improvement, such as implementing automatic load balancing. The status of the office team, whether it is up or down, should be checked at the API gateway level to facilitate load balancing.

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reviewer1042905

VP, Chief Enterprise Integration Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The biggest advantage is how simple the technology was.

I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be. OpenLegacy handles the bread-and-butter TP monitoring stuff, but I am working for one of the six banks in the United States still using the Hogan mainframe, which has a slightly proprietary mechanism. But OpenLegacy currently doesn't have a connector for Hogan. So it would help if they could build one. That would appeal to financial institutions that still use Hogan, like US Bank, Wells Fargo, KeyBank, and Vanguard.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Based on my experience, I would definitely recommend Kong Gateway Enterprise to other people."

"It offers a wide range of plugins that we leverage, including OIDC, Rate Limiting, Lambda functions, and more."

"The route limiting feature is very valuable."

"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 tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."

"In terms of stability, the tool's team has made some good efforts, and my company is very happy with the product's approach."

"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."

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"OpenLegacy provides a way to go from the outside world to the legacy mainframe, to move the old standard application to a REST API application. New digital services can be created in a few clicks and this can be done easily by COBOL programmers."

"Using OpenLegacy, the exposure of services is far easier and quicker. In many cases, exposure of services requires just a few clicks and takes only minutes. In very complex cases, it still only takes half a day. Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."

"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."

"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."

"Opens the door to connect modern web products to an old legacy system."

"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."

"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."

"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."

Cons

"More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as .NET, because many enterprises are looking for .NET solutions or incorporating with .NET solutions."

"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."

"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."

"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 technical support team's response time needs to be improved."

"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."

"The developer portal needs to be improved."

"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."

More Kong Gateway Enterprise cons

"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."

"We would also be more than happy if the product had the option to work in the opposite direction – the ability to consume REST/SOW services in the outer world from the mainframe."

"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."

"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case. We are currently working with OpenLegacy to cross the SSL bridge and suspect that most users will want to do the same."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Kong Enterprise's pricing is at par compared to the other technologies."

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing charges...In some areas, the functionalities are available free of charge."

"There are many factors that influence the price of Kong Enterprise, such as scale, licenses, and usage."

"It's expensive in Thailand (10 million baht, in Thai currency)."

"Kong Enterprise is cheaper than Apigee. I rate its pricing as four out of ten."

"Kong Enterprise's pricing is reasonable for our company size."

"Basically, my company uses the tool's open-source version."

"I don't have any information on licensing costs currently."

More Kong Gateway Enterprise pricing and cost advice

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Insurance Company

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?

The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of software, it is easy to install and upgrade. While there are different things that ...

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What do you like most about Kong Enterprise?

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...

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What needs improvement with Kong Enterprise?

More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as .NET, because many enterprises are looking for .NET solutions or incorporating ...

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Overview

Kong delivers a next generation API platform built for modern architectures. With a lightnight-fast, lightweight, and flexible core, Kong delivers sub-millisecond latency across all your services. Kong's is deployment-, vendor-, and pattern-agnostic, allowing you to run your services how you want, where you want, and with who you want - from baremetal to cloud, monolith to microservices, service mesh, and beyond.

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OpenLegacy helps organizations quickly launch innovative digital services by extending their core back-end systems to the web, mobile and cloud in days or weeks versus months. Our microservice-enabled API integration and management software quickly reduces project backlog by automating and accelerating microservices and API creation, deployment, testing and management from core applications, mainframes and databases. Together, business and IT teams can quickly, easily and securely meet consumer, partner or employee demands for digital services without modernizing or replacing core systems, and without special programming skills or invasive changes to existing systems and architectures. OpenLegacy is designed for ongoing management of microservices APIs and is based on open standards, so our software plays nice with your current technology stack and supports agile, DevOps and continuous development. Learn why leading companies choose OpenLegacy at www.openlegacy.com.

Sample Customers

Cargill, Zillow, Ferrari, WeWork, Healthcare.gov, Yahoo! Japan, Giphy, SkyScanner

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