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Akamai API Gateway vs. Kong Konnect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai API Gateway
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Akamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A
Kong Konnect
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Kong Inc. is a cloud connectivity company headquartered in San Francisco. They are the creator and primary supporter of Kong, the open-source Microservice API gateway, and offer Kong Konnect, an enterprise-tier platform that delivers connectivity and visibility for services in multi-cloud environments.
$250
Service/Month
Pricing
Akamai API GatewayKong Konnect
Editions & Modules
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$250
Service/Month
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai API GatewayKong Konnect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
Akamai API GatewayKong Konnect
Considered Both Products
Akamai API Gateway
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Anonymous
Chose Akamai API Gateway
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other …
Kong Konnect

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Features
Akamai API GatewayKong Konnect
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Akamai API Gateway
7.7
Ratings
7% below category average
Kong Konnect
-
Ratings
API access control8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Akamai API GatewayKong Konnect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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User Testimonials
Akamai API GatewayKong Konnect
Likelihood to Recommend
It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
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Using Kong [Konnect]'s declarative settings, a user may control traffic, automate deployment, and maintain container-based software after it's deployed. In addition, it handles the whole lifecycle of service management. Installation, management, and operation of Kong [Konnects]'s cloud-native connection runtimes may be performed in any cloud or Kubernetes provider environment, as well as on-premises environments. In order to optimise their services and transactions, users may keep track of their services and transactions in real-time via real-time monitoring.
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Pros
  • Graphically representation in GraphQL
  • Scaling system
  • DevOps management
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  • Application orchestration
  • Error tracing
  • Analyzing traffic
  • Load balancing
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Cons
  • Quota enforcement can be simplified
  • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
  • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
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  • Community support
  • Sample projects for easy integration
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
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Return on Investment
  • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
  • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
  • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
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  • Increased application efficiency
  • Reduced system downtown
  • Significantly improved error resolution
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