Google Apigee vs Kong comparison

Which API Management platform to select?

If you’re weighing up the pros and cons of Kong and Gravitee, there’s plenty to think about.

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Google Apigee

Acquired by Google in 2016, Apigee supports full API lifecycle management, offering testing tools, usage analytics through Apigee Edge and a developer portal. Integrated into the Google Cloud Platform, Apigee facilitates efficient API design, deployment and scaling. It offers options like Apigee X for SaaS and Apigee hybrid for flexible customer-managed runtimes across various clouds or private environments. Apigee is no longer available as a self-managed deployment – it is a fully managed API management solution from Google Cloud.

Kong

Kong offers API management solutions, catering to both software as a service (SaaS) and self-managed customers through Kong Konnect and Kong Enterprise, respectively. The platform encompasses Kong Gateway, a commercial version of the open-source API gateway utilising NGINX and OpenResty, along with Insomnia, an API design, testing, and documentation tool. Additionally, Kong supports service mesh deployments via Kuma, which is built on top of Envoy.

Apigee vs Kong: How do they stack up against Tyk in terms of API management features and performance?

Choosing the right API management platform: Apigee vs Kong

Features
Tyk
Kong
APigee
Full APIM solution
Analytics
Developer portal
Native support for Kubernetes
Self-serve trial for enterprise
Cloud service covers US, UK and APAC
Fully open source gateway
Self-managed, cloud and hybrid options
Extensibility in any language
Supports GraphQL federation natively
Programmatic enterprise-grade RBAC and ABAC

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