We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and webMethods.io API 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 Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"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."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"The performance is good."
"Clients choose webMethods.io API for its intuitive interface, promoting seamless interaction and quick communication between systems."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"A potential drawback of webMethods.io API is its adaptability to legacy systems, which can vary in compatibility."
"I would like the solution to provide bi-weekly updates."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while webMethods.io API is ranked 30th in API Management with 2 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while webMethods.io API 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.io API writes "Offers a strategic toolset for gradual integration advancement". Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and Layer7 API Management, whereas webMethods.io API is most compared with Apigee and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. webMethods.io API report.
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