Kong Gateway Enterprise vs OpenLegacy comparison

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Kong Gateway Enterprise

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and OpenLegacy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. OpenLegacy Report (Updated: October 2024).

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. OpenLegacy

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Categories and Ranking

Kong Gateway Enterprise

Ranking in API Management

6th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenLegacy

Ranking in API Management

35th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Kong Gateway Enterprise is 6.0%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenLegacy is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AmitKanodia

Cloud & Integration CoE Head at Capgemini

Sep 2, 2022

Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script

I lead the integration practices in my organization and have been working in integration for the past 16 years, managing API integrations with various API manager tools such as Kong Enterprise. We are primarily using Kong for the API gateway functionality. For example, we've had a couple of mobile…

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reviewer1042905

VP, Chief Enterprise Integration Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 10, 2021

The biggest advantage is how simple the technology was.

I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be. OpenLegacy handles the bread-and-butter TP monitoring stuff, but I am working for one of the six banks in the United States still using the Hogan mainframe, which has a slightly proprietary mechanism. But OpenLegacy currently doesn't have a connector for Hogan. So it would help if they could build one. That would appeal to financial institutions that still use Hogan, like US Bank, Wells Fargo, KeyBank, and Vanguard.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

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

"The solution provides good performance."

"The route limiting feature is very valuable."

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

"The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other companies and must ensure they adhere to their allocated usage limits. Without rate limiting, there's a risk of excessive usage, which could result in significant costs."

"In terms of stability, the tool's team has made some good efforts, and my company is very happy with the product's approach."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."

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"OpenLegacy provides a way to go from the outside world to the legacy mainframe, to move the old standard application to a REST API application. New digital services can be created in a few clicks and this can be done easily by COBOL programmers."

"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."

"Using OpenLegacy, the exposure of services is far easier and quicker. In many cases, exposure of services requires just a few clicks and takes only minutes. In very complex cases, it still only takes half a day. Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."

"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."

"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."

"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."

"Opens the door to connect modern web products to an old legacy system."

"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."

Cons

"They could focus more on pricing."

"Kong Enterprise needs to improve its pricing, which starts at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pricing should be based on API usage rather than monthly. It should improve its documentation as well."

"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."

"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."

"The tool needs improvement in UX."

"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."

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

"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."

More Kong Gateway Enterprise cons

"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."

"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."

"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case. We are currently working with OpenLegacy to cross the SSL bridge and suspect that most users will want to do the same."

"We would also be more than happy if the product had the option to work in the opposite direction – the ability to consume REST/SOW services in the outer world from the mainframe."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing fees are paid yearly."

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

"The price is really reasonable compared to that of alternative solutions."

"The licensing is expensive."

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

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

"It's expensive in Thailand (10 million baht, in Thai currency)."

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

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"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

36%

Computer Software Company

11%

Insurance Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

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Questions from the Community

How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?

The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of software, it is easy to install and upgrade. While there are different things that ...

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What do you like most about Kong Enterprise?

The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other...

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What needs improvement with Kong Enterprise?

The tool needs to improve in areas like documentation and UI. The product needs to have good documentation and a good UI where we can see the other features. It was difficult for our company to und...

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Kong

Overview

Kong delivers a next generation API platform built for modern architectures. With a lightnight-fast, lightweight, and flexible core, Kong delivers sub-millisecond latency across all your services. Kong's is deployment-, vendor-, and pattern-agnostic, allowing you to run your services how you want, where you want, and with who you want - from baremetal to cloud, monolith to microservices, service mesh, and beyond.

OpenLegacy helps organizations quickly launch innovative digital services by extending their core back-end systems to the web, mobile and cloud in days or weeks versus months. Our microservice-enabled API integration and management software quickly reduces project backlog by automating and accelerating microservices and API creation, deployment, testing and management from core applications, mainframes and databases. Together, business and IT teams can quickly, easily and securely meet consumer, partner or employee demands for digital services without modernizing or replacing core systems, and without special programming skills or invasive changes to existing systems and architectures. OpenLegacy is designed for ongoing management of microservices APIs and is based on open standards, so our software plays nice with your current technology stack and supports agile, DevOps and continuous development. Learn why leading companies choose OpenLegacy at www.openlegacy.com.

Sample Customers

Cargill, Zillow, Ferrari, WeWork, Healthcare.gov, Yahoo! Japan, Giphy, SkyScanner

Many of openLegacy's global customers are among the Global 100 companies. Review case studies in these industries: Agriculture, Airport Authority, Automotive, Auto, Finance, Insurance, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Retailwww.openlegacy.com/case-studie...

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. OpenLegacy