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."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"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."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"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."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"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."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"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."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"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."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"There are things that could be improved with the webMethods API gateway. One thing is that it's too attached to the integration service and we'd like it to be a little bit more independent. We would like for them to separate operations so that it doesn't rely on the bulky integration server and so that it can be used everywhere."
"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 price has room for improvement."
"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."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th in API Management with 9 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.0. 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, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Apache APISIX, 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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