3scale API Management vs Kong Gateway Enterprise comparison

"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."

"To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution."

"I like the API automation."

"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."

"The product is stable."

"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."

"The standard deployment is very simple."

"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."

"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."

"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."

"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."

"Kong's most valuable features are its lightweight performance when handling millions of requests and the ability to write custom plugins to enhance security, such as end-to-end encryption, even in the open-source version."

"The solution provides good performance."

"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."

"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."

"Kong Gateway helped to improve performance. It's good enough for our users."

"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."

"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."

"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."

"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."

"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."

"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."

"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."

"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."

"The software version upgrade process should be improved."

"From an improvement perspective, the product should offer more readily available connectors and also allow for more seamless AI integrations."

"The main challenge, in my opinion, is the price. It's difficult to convince our management to approve the budget to purchase it from our vendor. There are no technical problems."

"The tool needs to improve in areas like documentation and UI."

"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."

"They could focus more on pricing."

"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."

"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."

"The cost was around $45,000 per year."

"I don't think that 3scale is very expensive."

"The pricing is affordable, it's cheap."

"3scale API Management has reasonable pricing, judging from its competitor, Kong. My organization pays yearly for the 3scale API Management license, though I'm unable to give the exact figure because every single day there are new clusters deployed. I'm in charge of three to four clusters in my team, but give or take, it costs a few thousand lakhs."

"The licensing fees are paid yearly."

"Kong Enterprise is cheaper than Apigee. I rate its pricing as four out of ten."

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing charges...In some areas, the functionalities are available free of charge."

"There are many factors that influence the price of Kong Enterprise, such as scale, licenses, and usage."

"The product is reasonably priced because it goes by the SaaS model."

"Kong Enterprise's pricing is at par compared to the other technologies."

"Basically, my company uses the tool's open-source version."

"The licensing is expensive."