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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kong Konnect

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AKong Konnect is a cloud-delivered platform for managing connectivity across APIs, AI services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, event streams, and microservices. It provides centralized governance and observability while supporting gateway runtimes in customer-managed, hybrid, and Kong-managed cloud environments.

    $250

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    WSO2 API Platform

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…

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    Kong KonnectWSO2 API Platform
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    $250
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    Kong KonnectWSO2 API Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    Kong KonnectWSO2 API Platform
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Kong Konnect and WSO2 API Platform
    Feature
    Kong Konnect
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    Ratings
    WSO2 API Platform
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    API access control00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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    Kong KonnectWSO2 API Platform
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    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Kong KonnectWSO2 API Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Kong KonnectWSO2 API Platform
    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.
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    WSO2
    It's free! No argument can win a fight with that! And it's the only reason I gave it a 5. If you have no money to spend, and a simple environment you'll have a nice product. But free does come with a price. After 5 years we're still struggling with ports, and analytics (it just won't work without any errors caused by some configuration somewhere). An API Manager should work out of the box. The only configuration expertise that any developer wants to invest in, is the configuration of API's. Not the product itself... Anyone who've seen the training material, just for installing this thing will agree that this is not the way to go. Of all the API Managers out there (we've tried 4), WSO2 is the only one were you need to know how this dragon of a java application works internally. Did I already mention the humongous amount of config files?
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    Pros
    Kong, Inc
    • Application orchestration
    • Error tracing
    • Analyzing traffic
    • Load balancing
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    WSO2
    • Authentication based on OAuth 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication.
    • Rate Limiting applied at different levels like Subscriber, API, Resource and Backend.
    • Monitoring by exporting the metrics in Prometheus and traces in Jaeger.
    • Mediation to perform transformation, orchestration etc.
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    Cons
    Kong, Inc
    • Community support
    • Sample projects for easy integration
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    WSO2
    • Better QA testing prior to releases rollout
    • Better support needed
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kong, Inc
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    WSO2
    Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software development initiative.
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    Return on Investment
    Kong, Inc
    • Increased application efficiency
    • Reduced system downtown
    • Significantly improved error resolution
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    WSO2
    • We've moved away from legacy SOAP services where nobody knew what services was used by who. WSO2 eliminated at least 90% of time spend on any service.
    • Creating API's (or actually creating the API Management layer...) is so simple that new developers can get away with it in no time. Again, real time gainer.
    • Since creating API's is so simple, developers are very fast in adopting a kind of "Domain thinking". In comparison with Azure API Manager: Azure does not demand knowledge of "how" the product works, but it's definitely more difficult to get an API up and running in Azure. And for some reason, azure does not promote clean domain driven architecture. Domain Driven architecture is the greatest time saver strategy possible. And WSO2 fits nicely in there.
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