Akamai API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

Akamai API Gateway

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai API Gateway	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Akamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.	N/A
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)	Score 8.0 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

Pricing

Akamai API Gateway

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akamai API Gateway	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Features

Akamai API Gateway

Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Akamai API Gateway 7.7 1 Ratings 6% below category average	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) - Ratings
API access control	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
API usage data	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
API user onboarding	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
API versioning	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	9.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Akamai API Gateway	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
Small Businesses	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	Oracle SOA Suite Score 8.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Akamai API Gateway	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai API Gateway	Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review
Pros	Akamai Graphically representation in GraphQL Scaling system DevOps management Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Kong, Inc 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
Cons	Akamai 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Akamai 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Kong, Inc We haven't used anything else. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Read full review
Return on Investment	Akamai 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic
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