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."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."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"There were no complexities involved in the setup phase...The product is able to meet my company's API protection needs."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"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."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"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."
"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."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.2. 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 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 and Apache APISIX, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, 3scale API Management, webMethods Microgateway and CentraSite. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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