Kong Gateway Enterprise vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

Kong and TIBCO are both solutions in the API Management category. Kong is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.6, while TIBCO is ranked #28 with an average rating of 7.0. Kong holds a 6.0% mindshare in APIM, compared to TIBCO’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Kong users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Kong Gateway Enterprise

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92% willing to recommend

TIBCO Cloud API Management

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1,209 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

Kong Gateway Enterprise

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and TIBCO Cloud API Management 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. TIBCO Cloud API Management Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management

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Categories and Ranking

Kong Gateway Enterprise

Ranking in API Management

6th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Ranking in API Management

28th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 TIBCO Cloud API Management is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management

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AmitKanodia

Cloud & Integration CoE Head at Capgemini

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

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.

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Amitava Roy

Principal Enterprise Architect (Cognizant Digital Business) at Cognizant

Offers pre-built packages for quick and easy onboarding of APIs but configuration is not that easy

The configuration is not that easy. It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either. There are certain things where the performance is not that great. When the traffic is huge, we see some lag in performance.

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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

"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."

"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."

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

"The route limiting feature is very valuable."

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

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

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

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

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"It has something called packages. In that way, it's good because we have some pre-built packages. So, if you want to onboard different APIs, we can just add them to the package, and it's there."

"The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads."

"The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well."

"Conversion to RESTful and SOAP protocols and management console (can manage individually throttled settings to manage our service levels for customers)."

"The control that we have and the security features are very valuable. With regard to API implementation or API orchestration, it works very well in the cloud because as soon as you create an API with one click, you can actually expose your APIs."

"Very few outages or SLA issues."

"The reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to have different packages based on the API keys. The same core system can have different packages based on different environments."

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Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."

"The tool needs improvement in UX."

"The software version upgrade process should be improved."

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

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"They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution."

"It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either."

"Policy management has been a bit of a concern."

"It lacks many features at the API gateway compared to other solutions."

"The way agile life cycle is working needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards. I want to see some improvement on the protocol transformation. That is quite missing now. These are the three main issues."

"We observed delays under heavy load conditions, and without proper tuning, changes could take an extended period to filter and become effective."

"Monetization is not that great in API management. You need customization. Improvements are needed with sandbox local as well as with monetization. Those features are missing."

"The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

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

"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 at par compared to the other technologies."

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"Licensing is quite flexible."

"Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."

"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 open-source version of Kong does not support a dashboard, which would be very helpful. We use an open-source tool called Konga for basic dashboard needs, but it lacks support. It would be bette...

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What do you like most about TIBCO Cloud API Management?

The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Cloud API Management?

My primary role was to assess the solution from a capability perspective. So, there are some issues with the licensing cost.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?

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Comparisons

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs Kong Gateway Enterprise

Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 29% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

Layer7 API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 17% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 12% of the time

IBM API Connect vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 5% of the time

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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.

APIs are critical business assets that form the foundation of digital business enabling new business models, improved operational efficiency, and connected customer experiences. TIBCO Cloud API Management empowers users to maximize the business value of their APIs products through an end-to-end solution that provides full lifecycle API management alongside capabilities for API discovery, implementation and analytics that speed business value realization across your digital ecosystem.

Sample Customers

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

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Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management

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