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We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and TIBCO Cloud API Management 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management Report (Updated: March 2024).
769,334 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution.""The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality.""Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring.""Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support.""The route limiting feature is very valuable.""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.""It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me.""Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."

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"We can completely manage the APIs at the org level and BU (business unit) level.""Conversion to RESTful and SOAP protocols and management console (can manage individually throttled settings to manage our service levels for customers).""The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well.""The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.""The most valuable aspect of Mashery is its stability.""It is easy to work with .""The control that we have and the security features are very valuable. With regard to API implementation or API orchestration, it works very well in the cloud because as soon as you create an API with one click, you can actually expose your APIs.""This has provided a new stream of traffic and exposure of our catalogue beyond the normal web store offering."

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Cons
"The tool needs improvement in UX.""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.""We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis.""The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.""Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly.""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 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."

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"It lacks many features at the API gateway compared to other solutions.""The way agile life cycle is working needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards. I want to see some improvement on the protocol transformation. That is quite missing now. These are the three main issues.""The security needs improvement, specifically, propagation of security to an API. Calling other APIs is something that is missing in the product and that makes us think about going to a competitor.""They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution.""The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive.""I'd like to see TIBCO integrate authentication and security features into Mashery.""Policy management has been a bit of a concern.""TIBCO Cloud API Management should improve its installation and make it easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing fees are paid yearly."
  • "The price is really reasonable compared to that of alternative solutions."
  • "There are many factors that influence the price of Kong Enterprise, such as scale, licenses, and usage."
  • "I don't have any information on licensing costs currently."
  • "There is a need to pay towards the licensing charges...In some areas, the functionalities are available free of charge."
  • "Kong Enterprise's pricing is at par compared to the other technologies."
  • "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."
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  • "We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."
  • "Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."
  • "Licensing is quite flexible."
  • "TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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 one… more »
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.
    Top Answer:TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution. If you have the cost in mind, you can go for TIBCO Cloud API Management. However, we have some limitations, like, even if you have a SOAP API… more »
    Top Answer:We observed delays under heavy load conditions, and without proper tuning, changes could take an extended period to filter and become effective. For instance, adjustments made in the UI sometimes took… more »
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    6th
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    27th
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    Average Words per Review
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    Also Known As
    Mashery API Management
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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.

    APIs are critical business assets that form the foundation of digital business enabling new business models, improved operational efficiency, and connected customer experiences. TIBCO Cloud API Management empowers users to maximize the business value of their APIs products through an end-to-end solution that provides full lifecycle API management alongside capabilities for API discovery, implementation and analytics that speed business value realization across your digital ecosystem.

    Sample Customers
    Cargill, Zillow, Ferrari, WeWork, Healthcare.gov, Yahoo! Japan, Giphy, SkyScanner
    uShip, Sabre, TouchTunes, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, athenahealth, Coca-Cola Enterprises, CentralIndex.com, Constant Contact, Edmunds.com, FoodEssentials, Getty Images, Klout, Rovi, Rotten Tomatoes, Sportradar, TomTom, ACTIVE.com
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm40%
    Computer Software Company27%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Insurance Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company50%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Media Company10%
    Transportation Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Healthcare Company5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise73%
    Buyer's Guide
    Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    769,334 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while TIBCO Cloud API Management is ranked 27th in API Management with 10 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while TIBCO Cloud API Management is rated 7.2. 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 TIBCO Cloud API Management writes "Is highly scalable, but monetization and analytics need improvement". Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and Layer7 API Management, whereas TIBCO Cloud API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management report.

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