NGINX API Gateway vs Runscope comparison

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We performed a comparison between NGINX API Gateway and Runscope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX API Gateway

Ranking in API Monitoring Software

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

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Runscope

Ranking in API Monitoring Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the API Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NGINX API Gateway is 11.6%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Runscope is 15.8%, down from 20.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Narendra-Singh

SR IT administrator at Cardinal Integrated Technologies Inc

It's a scalable open-source enterprise application that's easy to maintain and configure

We use NGINX for API routing. API is an open-source solution. It serves as a reverse proxy, routing users to our services without leaving us exposed. API routing is the most valuable feature. The UI could be more attractive. I have used API Gateway for about three months. I rate NGINX API…

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QualityA876f

Quality Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Enabled us to set up automatic regression tests that cover everything we need to monitor

We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that. Also, it would be nice to be able to generate API documentation.

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Pros

"It's easy to install, and the performance is good."

"API routing is the most valuable feature."

"We do not face any lags."

"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."

"As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive."

"The schedule is definitely the most valuable. Also, being able to check the JSON attribute values is helpful. We always check the attributes. Finally, the notifications are helpful as well."

"It is a relatively reliable tool for running big amounts of API tests, which you can schedule to run periodically, as the product is very good."

"This solution has improved our responsiveness to issues in both production and non-production environments. Through integration with Slack, our development and DevOps teams are quickly aware of issues related to new changes deployed to non-production environments, which tightens our feedback loop during testing. Through integration with PagerDuty, our DevOps resources are able to reduce the adverse impact of a given production issue."

"Valuable features include: Being able to add tests as sub-tests in a parent test for regression testing; notifications for tests that pass/fail; being able to customize expected results with assertions; being able to set tests to run daily."

"We can receive an email and slack notifications if tests are failing/passing."

"It uses JavaScript which is easy."

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Cons

"The product must improve its security features."

"The UI could be more attractive."

"It could be more secure because security is always a problem."

"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."

"If triggering test bucket via trigger API, there is no option to see if the tests which were triggered passed or failed."

"Currently, we can only schedule to the nearest five minutes, one hour, two hours, etc. If we could set up the exact time that we want it to run, that would be good because sometimes we have one service that crosses another service."

"We would like to have an improved ability to share a set of tests across different environments (e.g., dev, stage, and prod)."

"Navigation can be a little tricky when changing run environments and switching between test run results and editing the tests. It would be nice if you could switch the environment for all tests in a Bucket to run, rather than having to change each test environment."

"We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that."

"If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time."

"Needs the ability to create code which runs before and after API tests."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the open source version, so there is no cost involved."

"We are using the open-source version."

"Having the different plans organized by team size, buckets, and requests per billing period works for our needs. Larger companies may need to take a close look at these elements."

"The price for the product is very reasonable for a team of more than four to five members."

"Pricing is fair."

"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NGINX API Gateway?

We do not face any lags.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX API Gateway?

We are using the open-source version. We are planning to buy the licensed version. The solution costs less in the Asia-Pacific region.

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What needs improvement with NGINX API Gateway?

If we publish API or GET requests, sometimes someone can do a POST request of the API. Such security violations are not visible in the product. Other solutions provide such security features. The p...

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Overview

The NGINX Plus API gateway authenticates API calls, routes requests to appropriate backends, applies rate limits to prevent overloading services and to mitigate volumetric attacks, offloads SSL/TLS traffic, and handles errors and exceptions. NGINX's API gateway takes all API requests from a client, determines which services are needed, and delivers the result in a high‑performance manner.

NGINX Plus API gateway is used to protect APIs with rate‑limiting policies, enforce specific request methods, and provide fine‑grained access control:

Ensures application backends are not overwhelmed by a problematic or malicious API clients through rate limits based on attribute of the request.
NGINX Plus allows only specific request methods for app services. For example, you can accept only the GET method to ensure that access to your inventory service is read‑only (just returns the inventory).
Controls access to specific resources using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). For example, you can allow write access to a service for API clients with admin credentials, but only read access for clients with standard user credentials.

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Twilio, Microsoft, Adobe, Okta, Tesco, Charter Communications

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