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Alternatives to Kong

Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Ambassador, Azure API Management, and Tyk Cloud are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Kong.
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What is Kong and what are its top alternatives?

Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
Kong is a tool in the API Gateway category of a tech stack.
Kong is an open source tool with 37.1K GitHub stars and 4.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kong's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Kong

  • Apigee
    Apigee

    API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world. ...

  • Amazon API Gateway
    Amazon API Gateway

    Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. ...

  • Ambassador
    Ambassador

    Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP. ...

  • Azure API Management
    Azure API Management

    Today's innovative enterprises are adopting API architectures to accelerate growth. Streamline your work across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a single place for managing all your APIs. ...

  • Tyk Cloud
    Tyk Cloud

    Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. ...

  • API Umbrella
    API Umbrella

    API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs. It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API. ...

  • Moesif
    Moesif

    Build a winning API platform with instant, meaningful visibility into API usage and customer adoption ...

  • Treblle
    Treblle

    It makes it super easy to understand what’s going on with your APIs and the apps that use them. You can add it to any API using one of our SDKs for PHP, Laravel, .NET, Node, Ruby and Python. Once you add our SDK out of the box you get: real time API monitoring and logging, error tracking, automatically generated documentation, quality scoring and analytics. Essentially you get all the tools you need to build and ship APIs with ease. Treblle isn’t built just for back-end and API developers. You can invite team members to you project and they all get the same features. ...

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Apigee

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Intelligent and complete API platform
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PROS OF APIGEE
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    Highly scalable and secure API Management Platform
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    Quick jumpstart
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    Good documentation
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    Fast and adjustable caching
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    Easy to use
CONS OF APIGEE
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    Expensive
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    Doesn't support hybrid natively

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Amazon API Gateway

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PROS OF AMAZON API GATEWAY
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    AWS Integration
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    Websockets
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    Serverless
CONS OF AMAZON API GATEWAY
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    No websocket broadcast
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    Less expensive

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VP Software Engrg at Reliant · | 3 upvotes · 1M views
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Amazon API Gateway vs Apigee. How do they compare as an API Gateway? What is the equivalent functionality, similarities, and differences moving from Apigee API GW to AWS API GW?

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Ambassador

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Open source, Kubernetes-native API Gateway for Microservices built on Envoy
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PROS OF AMBASSADOR
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    Edge-proxy
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    Kubernetes friendly configuration
CONS OF AMBASSADOR
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    Azure API Management

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    Hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs across all environments
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        Tyk Cloud

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        Open Source API Management
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        PROS OF TYK CLOUD
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          Full featured
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          Great Performance
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          Flexible
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          Better Oauth integration
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          Good value
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          Great support & advice
        CONS OF TYK CLOUD
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          Problem/Challenge

          We needed a lightweight and completely customizable #microservices #gateway to be able to generate #JWT and introspect #OAuth2 tokens as well. The #gateway was going to front all #APIs for our single page web app as well as externalized #APIs for our partners.

          Contenders

          We looked at Tyk Cloud and Kong. Kong's plugins are all Lua based and its core is NGINX and OpenResty. Although it's open source, it's not the greatest platform to be able to customize. On top of that enterprise features are paid and expensive. Tyk is Go and the nomenclature used within Tyk like "sessions" was bizarre, and again enterprise features were paid.

          Decision

          We ultimately decided to roll our own using ExpressJS into Express Gateway because the use case for using ExpressJS as an #API #gateway was tried and true, in fact - all the enterprise features that the other two charge for #OAuth2 introspection etc were freely available within ExpressJS middleware.

          Outcome

          We opened source Express Gateway with a core set of plugins and the community started writing their own and could quickly do so by rolling lots of ExpressJS middleware into Express Gateway

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          API Umbrella

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          Open source API management platform used by api.data.gov
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              Moesif

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              PROS OF MOESIF
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                Smart Product Alerts
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                API Product Analytics
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                Easy Developer Friendly SDKs
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                This seem like a new category.
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                Treblle

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                Understand what’s going on with your APIs
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                PROS OF TREBLLE
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