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Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Insomnia

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon API Gateway
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
AWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic management, as well as monitoring and access control.
$0.90
Per Million
Kong Insomnia
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
A solution to design, debug, test, and mock APIs locally, on Git, or cloud. It helps users to build better APIs collaboratively for the most popular protocols with what is presented as a dev‑friendly UI, built-in automation, and an extensible plugin ecosystem.
$5
per month per user
Pricing
Amazon API GatewayKong Insomnia
Editions & Modules
Past 300 Million
$0.90
Per Million
First 300 Million
$1.00
Per Million
Individual
$5
per month per user
Team
$12
per month per user
Enterprise
$45
per month (billed annually) per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon API GatewayKong Insomnia
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details—15% discount for annual billing on Individual and Team plans.
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Community Pulse
Amazon API GatewayKong Insomnia
Features
Amazon API GatewayKong Insomnia
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon API Gateway
9.1
14 Ratings
8% above category average
Kong Insomnia
-
Ratings
API access control9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging10.014 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon API GatewayKong Insomnia
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon API GatewayKong Insomnia
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Experienced a lack of available programming languages while working on a minor project. I had to halt the project and wait for it to be added later. It took ages and had a hit on our productivity. It has a centralized management system which helps and an easy interface which helps to manage multiple tasks in case of large-scale operations and projects.
Amritansu Sahoo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Amritansu Sahoo
Co-Founder
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Kong, Inc
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • API Gateway integrates well with AWS Lambda. This allows us to build a web server in the language and framework of our choice, deploy it as a Lambda function, and expose it through API Gateway.
  • API Gateway manages API keys. Building rate limiting and request quota features are not trivial (or interesting).
  • API Gateway's pricing can be very attractive for services that are accessed infrequently.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Kong, Inc
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Client certificates are troublesome when trying to attach them to API GW stages.
  • Debugging across several services can be difficult when API GW is integrated with Route 53 and another service like Lambda or EC2/ELB.
  • Creating internal/private APIs, particularly with custom domains, can be unintuitive.
Michael Jenkins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Jenkins
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
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Kong, Inc
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It is a great product very reliable and stable for connecting various aws services like we connected with lambda function and it is working very well, never faced any issue after the setup. It also saves out lots of money as well as time after we implemented the automatic ec2 server recovery system
PB
Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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Kong, Inc
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
We always had a great experience with the AWS support team. They were always on time and very dependable. It was a good partnership while we worked to resolve our issues.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Kong, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
When we tested Azure API Management at the time, it had serious connectivity issues, it was very unstable, and it needed to do a lot using the command line. Comparing with the AWS solution, which was more mature, and the fact that we have services in use on AWS, we ended up choosing to continue using AWS products. This so as not to run the risk of increasing latency in accesses, and of some functionality not working, due to being developed yet.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Kong, Inc
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • ROI is negative, you need either to hire them to work with you or spend days/weeks to figure out issues.
  • For some of the projects in the end it is not worth it, it is just a "buzz" to use serverless but not practical.
  • Service is easy to set up authorization and it is easy to manage.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Kong, Inc
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