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Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) vs. WSO2 API Manager

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Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

4 Reviews and Ratings

WSO2 API Manager

16 Reviews and Ratings

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    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

    Score6.2 out of 10
    		N/AKong 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

    WSO2 API Manager

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    		WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…

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    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)WSO2 API Manager
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    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)WSO2 API Manager
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)WSO2 API Manager
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    Kong, Inc
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    WSO2
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    Chose WSO2 API Manager
    Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) and WSO2 API Manager
    Feature
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
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    Ratings
    WSO2 API Manager
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    API access control00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)WSO2 API Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)