Kong Konnect vs. Layer7 API Management

Kong Konnect

5 Reviews and Ratings

Layer7 API Management

Layer7 API Management

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kong Konnect	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Kong Inc. is a cloud connectivity company headquartered in San Francisco. They are the creator and primary supporter of Kong, the open-source Microservice API gateway, and offer Kong Konnect, an enterprise-tier platform that delivers connectivity and visibility for services in multi-cloud environments.	$250 per month
Layer7 API Management	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Layer7 API Management (formerly CA API Management) from Broadcom company CA Technologies enables creation and management of API.	N/A

Pricing

Kong Konnect

Layer7 API Management

Editions & Modules

Plus: $250
Service/Month
Enterprise: Custom

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kong Konnect	Layer7 API Management
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Kong Konnect	Layer7 API Management
Top Pros	Pro Load balancing	Pro Web services
Top Cons	Minus Community support Minus Easy integration	Minus Managing projects

Features

Kong Konnect

Layer7 API Management

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Kong Konnect - Ratings	Layer7 API Management 8.6 1 Ratings 5% above category average
API access control	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
API usage data	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
API user onboarding	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
API versioning	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kong Konnect	Layer7 API Management
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	NGINX Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 8.6 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 8.6 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kong Konnect	Layer7 API Management
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kong Konnect	Layer7 API Management
Likelihood to Recommend	Kong, Inc Using Kong [Konnect]'s declarative settings, a user may control traffic, automate deployment, and maintain container-based software after it's deployed. In addition, it handles the whole lifecycle of service management. Installation, management, and operation of Kong [Konnects]'s cloud-native connection runtimes may be performed in any cloud or Kubernetes provider environment, as well as on-premises environments. In order to optimise their services and transactions, users may keep track of their services and transactions in real-time via real-time monitoring. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Broadcom Well suited for publishing internal services with very high security, protecting against attacks, and managing on-demand load. Also good for transform messages and SQL to Rest services. Not appropriate for business logic implementation. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
Pros	Kong, Inc Application orchestration Error tracing Analyzing traffic Load balancing Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Broadcom SOAP to Rest / Rest to SOAP web services transformation. Secure authorization and authetication (JWT, OpenIP Connect, OAuth, SAML and more). WASP Features as injection protection. Easy rule writing without coding. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
Cons	Kong, Inc Community support Sample projects for easy integration Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Broadcom It would be nice to have an integration with services like Github for managing projects and versions. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
Usability	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic	Broadcom The Layer7 API Management is a great solution, but, sometimes the documentation is not clear or has lack of examples. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
Support Rating	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic	Broadcom The support team is good and the response time is reasonable, but (there is always a but), when support inquiries are made by someone experienced, and the question is not trivial, it is boring and takes a long time to get the case escalated to the next level of support. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic	Broadcom We evaluated 3 tools and decided on Layer7 API Management because it had the shortest implementation times and fastest learning curve, without losing power of customization and scalability. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
Return on Investment	Kong, Inc Increased application efficiency Reduced system downtown Significantly improved error resolution Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Broadcom Very fast implementation and is easy to learn & use. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review
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