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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

    Mashery (now part of Boomi)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMashery, 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
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    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) and Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Feature
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
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    Ratings
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    6.9
    23 Ratings
    18% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.723 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings6.522 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kong, Inc
    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.
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    Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.
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    Pros
    Kong, Inc
    • Mapping requests to back-end services
    • Plugins for almost everything
    • It's super fast
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    • Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
    • Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
    • The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
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    Cons
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    • The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
    • Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
    • Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kong, Inc
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    Ease of use.
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    Usability
    Kong, Inc
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    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
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    Support Rating
    Kong, Inc
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    Support has been good overall.
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    Implementation Rating
    Kong, Inc
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    Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kong, Inc
    We haven't used anything else.
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    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Kong, Inc
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    Discontinued Products
    • As a API Mediation layer it has helped with the troublesome port setup with internal and external clients. Meaning it made that easy to the client that they know where to go for access to an API.
    • The interactive documentation is very well put together and has reduced the time that developers have to go back and forth with each other to figure how to call the API.
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