Kong Gateway Enterprise vs SwaggerHub comparison

"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."

"The route limiting feature is very valuable."

"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."

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

"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."

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

"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."

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

"The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult."

"The most valuable features are the collaboration between multiple teams and the control and distribution of specifications."

"The tool's most valuable feature is licensing."

"It is a stable solution."

"The scalability is endless."

"It is quite a useful tool. It is quite good with the validation of the spec. It works quite well in terms of errors and conformity to the OpenAPI standard. It is better than Visual Studio Code in terms of editing."

"I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten."

"You can click & play and add the notation in a human-readable form. Spotlight is also very good in the graphical design of APIs."

"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."

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

"Kong is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general."

"They could focus more on pricing."

"The ease of billing is lost when Kong is not available directly on the Azure marketplace. This is one area where they can improve."

"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."

"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."

"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."

"SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools."

"It could be more intuitive compared to one of its competitors."

"We have to use additional tools to test APIs."

"More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice"

"The review process should be improved. There seem to be some gaps, at least for us, for the editing part because we would like to have a full request review mechanism. They support some comments, but it is really hard to manage those comments. We would like to use the full request. Therefore, we are now looking to integrate with repositories. It has integration with Bitbucket and GitHub, but we have some internal constraints, and we need to move some of the repositories to GitHub. Our source code is on-premise in Bitbucket, and it was a bit of a problem for us to integrate. Now we are transitioning our repositories to GitHub, and hopefully, we can enable the integration. This will probably solve the problem with the review and approval. Its customization should also be improved. There are limitations around the support for the developer portal. There should be more customization options for the website that you can use as a developer portal. Currently, it has only Swagger UI with minimal customization. You cannot actually add additional pages and documentation for explaining concepts and general things. That's why we have started to look around to see what other tools are doing. They should also allow tagging on the API. We would like to add some tagging on the API to reflect certain things. Currently, any metadata that you would like to have has to be a part of the spec. You cannot do anything else. It should also have support for Open API 3.1, which was released at the beginning of the year. It would be great to be able to switch to that."

"It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need."

"SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school."

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

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

"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."

"Kong Enterprise's pricing is reasonable for our company size."

"I don't have any information on licensing costs currently."

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

"The tool is cheap."

"It has a yearly subscription, but I am not sure."