Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) vs. Choreo by WSO2

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
Score 8.1 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
WSO2 Choreo
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Since WSO2's June 2021 acquisition of Platformer, the company now offers and supports Choreo, the former Platform IPaaS and low-code cloud native engineering for API Developers.
$0
1 project, up to 5 components
Pricing
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Choreo by WSO2
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
1 project, up to 5 components. $100 in Choreo infrastructure credits per month.
Pay-As-You-Go
$150
per month Up to 10 projects and 30 components. $150 per component per month. Pass-through infrastructure costs.
Enterprise
Custom Quote
per year Unlimited projects and components. Discounts based on annual commitments available. Pass-through infrastructure costs, or use a data plane.
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)WSO2 Choreo
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—1 step is a maximum of 500ms of compute time. An incoming event, message, or outgoing API call is a minimum of 1 step.
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Community Pulse
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Choreo by WSO2
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Features
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Choreo by WSO2
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
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Ratings
Choreo by WSO2
8.1
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Choreo by WSO2
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)Choreo by WSO2
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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WSO2
While you are developing your code, my case is codes for bots, you'll have more power and if you have an API ally that shows forecasts of latencies and throughputs: Choreo by WS02 is that friend. It is very ideal in giving insights on intelligent data mapping, code anomalies as you develop the codes or applications.
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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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WSO2
  • Provides feedback in real time which sorts most of the API performance challenges.
  • Displays the estimated application performance as you compose your code.
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Cons
Kong, Inc
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WSO2
  • Latency curves may be inaccurate sometimes or provide over/under estimates
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Alternatives Considered
Kong, Inc
We haven't used anything else.
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WSO2
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Return on Investment
Kong, Inc
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WSO2
  • over 90 percent accuracy in performance prediction of bots under development
  • It's possible to trace on faulty codes, down to the machine-level details.
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ScreenShots

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