Dash vs Kong

Dash vs Kong: What are the differences?

Developers describe Dash as "Gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets". Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. On the other hand, Kong is detailed as "Open Source Microservice & API Management Layer". 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.

Dash and Kong are primarily classified as "API Documentation Browser" and "Microservices" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Dash are:

• 150+ offline docsets
• Instant, fuzzy search
• Great integration with other apps

On the other hand, Kong provides the following key features:

• Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk
• OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs
• Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics

"Dozens of API docs and Cheat-Sheets" is the top reason why over 15 developers like Dash, while over 35 developers mention "Easy to maintain" as the leading cause for choosing Kong.

Kong is an open source tool with 28.7K GitHub stars and 3.79K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kong's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Kong has a broader approval, being mentioned in 120 company stacks & 288 developers stacks; compared to Dash, which is listed in 44 company stacks and 251 developer stacks.