Kong Konnect vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Kong Konnect

Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

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
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Supported by SmartBear, Swagger is a set of tools used by developers to design, document, build, and test APIs in the OpenAPI Specification.	N/A

Pricing

Kong Konnect

Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Editions & Modules

Plus: $250
Service/Month
Enterprise: Custom

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kong Konnect	Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
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	Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Top Pros	Pro Load balancing	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Community support Minus Easy integration	No answers on this topic

Features

Kong Konnect

Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Kong Konnect - Ratings	Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear 7.4 1 Ratings 10% below category average
API access control	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
API usage data	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
API user onboarding	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
API versioning	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kong Konnect	Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 8.6 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloud Managed Istio Score 8.7 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kong Konnect	Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kong Konnect	Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
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	SmartBear To my opinion Swagger Open Source is a very good tool to quickly produce an api documentation, that how I use it.Swagger can also produce an open api file to generate an api for our application server (Inersystems Iris) but we don't use this functionality for now. We plan to use more Swagger features in the future. Incentivized Pierre LAFAY CEO Read full review
Pros	Kong, Inc Application orchestration Error tracing Analyzing traffic Load balancing Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SmartBear Produce documentation user interface to create api definition reusability of data description Incentivized Pierre LAFAY CEO Read full review
Cons	Kong, Inc Community support Sample projects for easy integration Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SmartBear for me the UI can be more simple too many functionnalities when just want to produce doc, can be a separate app A french documentation will be apreciated Incentivized Pierre LAFAY CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Kong, Inc No answers on this topic	SmartBear We use swagger only to generate the API documentation, for testing the APIs, we use Postman. We don't find an other tools for producing API documentation in web pages and also in pdf files. Postman is a good complement for testing APIs on InterSystems IRIS (a powerful application server and DB manager) which implements these APIs. Incentivized Pierre LAFAY CEO 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	SmartBear Less time to produce our documentation Documentation can be accessed online, this is a plus for our customers and partners Great tools to communicate with other project actors Incentivized Pierre LAFAY CEO Read full review
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