Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) vs. Mashery (now part of Boomi)

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

Mashery (now part of Boomi)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) is the open source community Gateway supported by Kong, Inc, in San Francisco. Presented as the world's most popular API gateway, it is built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. Kong Gateway is also part of the Konnect platform, Kong's enterprise service offering.	N/A
Mashery (now part of Boomi)	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Mashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.	N/A

Pricing

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

Mashery (now part of Boomi)

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Considered Both Products	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) We haven't used anything else. Incentivized Helpful?	Mashery (now part of Boomi) Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) AWS API Gateway Azure API Gateway Incentivized Helpful? MD Mateusz Dampc Sr. DevOps Engineer Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Far more expensive than Mashery, no support on migrating data from Mashery to Apigee. If you wish to migrate you are on your own. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) We've use Red Hat CloudForms, but we prefer TIBCO Mashery. Incentivized Helpful? Harry Vyt IT Product Manager Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Other providers have been considered, such as Mulesoft and IBM. The choice for Tibco was primarily inspired because of the existing partnership, and the flexibility of their offering. Incentivized Helpful? DP Dejan Pust Development Team Lead Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) For us, it was an easy decision as we used other TIBCO solutions that well integrated with TIBCO Cloud Mashery. Incentivized Helpful? JC Joe Cunetta Product Manager Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) None as of today. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Mashery, in its deploy anywhere approach, protects web and non-web applications. It is flexible and holds its own against AWS's Web Application Firewall. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Amazon API Gateway mainly. We find AWS is innovating very fast in the space. For the user's already with workloads running in AWS, it's easier to integrate with many other value add services like security and monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Jyotheeswar Achari P Tech Lead Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) TIBCO Cloud Mashery rates easier to use in API implementation and deployment. It also allows combining multiple APIs into packages which can be consumed by different applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) We use session management with TIBCO Cloud Mashery and we really love it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) TIBCO Cloud Mashery is equal to or better than each of these competitors in many areas. Incentivized Helpful? Oldrich Novak Director Platform Engineering at Adidas Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Our selection process happened in 2016. TIBCO Mashery's easy hybrid deployment model was the reason why we decided on Mashery over Apigee. AKAMAI API gateway is now a new tool on the market evolving really fast but was not available yet when we went through the selection … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) When the evaluation of API Management was done, the market for a cloud, SaaS offering was limited. The short timeline for setting up TIBCO Cloud Mashery and the quick enablement of the developer portal have been major decision criteria. Incentivized Helpful? Manny Rechani Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API) Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Mashery was already installed when I took over the project. I have not worked extensively with other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Ali Dalloul Director of Software Development Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need. Incentivized Helpful? JP Justin Peterson Senior Development Manager Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) When we were first trying to identify an API Gateway provider, we evaluated Mashery and Apigee and chose Mashery because they were more competitive on cost. Now that we are with Mashery, we have not considered other vendors. We do use Amazon's API Gateway service for some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Apigee Incentivized Helpful? Srinivas Appala Technical Lead Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) Mulesoft Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi) I use Mashery because it is very easy to use and it can help some of the older people in my firm to understand how to use Mashery in the new programs in terms of back end and front end development. It also allows other competitors to not be needed and allows me to use other … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

Mashery (now part of Boomi)

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) - Ratings	Mashery (now part of Boomi) 6.9 Ratings 18% below category average
API access control	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
API usage data	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
API user onboarding	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
API versioning	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	00 Ratings	4.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Oracle SOA Suite Score 8.0 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Likelihood to Recommend	You can use Kong for simple to complex micro service back-ends. You can leverage the various categories of plugins to quickly set-up things. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	TIBCO Cloud Mashery allows you to quickly enable API access control and management together with quick and easy setup of the developer portal. It focuses on core API management with limited integration features (filters, adapters, orchestration) - so TIBCO Cloud Mashery is mostly suited in a setup which already addresses integration features with other products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Mapping requests to back-end services Plugins for almost everything It's super fast Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	Throttling of requests helps prevent DOS attacks. Attackers try to wreak havoc wherever they can. Mashery helps you control your environments to throttle every endpoint independently. The interface for setting endpoints is very intuitive and makes real-time adjustment easy to do. TIBCO Cloud Mashery support is superb. I do not have to go to their website to know of any issues. They are proactive in communicating with their customers Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Mashery should allow orchestration and transformation out of the box rather than it being a service or having to buy additional services. The dashboard is easy to use but I think it needs a face lift and it needs to start using TIBCO Spotfire to make it more of a analytical engine. Incentivized Bradley Likes Enterprise Services Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Ease of use. Incentivized Manny Rechani Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API) Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Support has been good overall. Incentivized Manny Rechani Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API) Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We haven't used anything else. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review	Our selection process happened in 2016. TIBCO Mashery's easy hybrid deployment model was the reason why we decided on Mashery over Apigee. Akamai API Gateway is now a new tool on the market evolving really fast but was not available yet when we went through the selection process. Tyk is open source and evolving very fast, but 2 years back, it was not mature enough. That might have changed now. Incentivized Oldrich Novak Director Platform Engineering at Adidas Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Mashery enabled us to go to market quicker because we didn't have to write systems for authentication and security for ourselves. Mashery helps our MTTR when we have issues because we can use their transaction logs to identify and troubleshoot issues. Incentivized JP Justin Peterson Senior Development Manager Read full review
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