Hexagon vs Pactflow: What are the differences?

What is Hexagon? A microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. It is a microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of services (Web applications, APIs or queue consumers) that run inside a cloud platform.

What is Pactflow? Fast, easy and reliable testing for your APIs and microservices. Deploy into production with impunity, and have visibility into the integration of your stack. It ensures that all components are communicating correctly before a release, without costly and brittle integration tests. We integrate with Pact and Spring Cloud Contract, enabling powerful collaboration features for the enterprise.

Hexagon belongs to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack, while Pactflow can be primarily classified under "API Tools".

Some of the features offered by Hexagon are:

• Simple to use
• Easy to hack
• Kotlin first

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

• Integration: Integrates with Pact and Spring Cloud Contract contract testing frameworks
• Webhook management: integrate Webhooks to orchestrate a CI/CD pipeline
• SSO: Login with Google, Github or an OIDC/SAML provider