Kong vs Gravitee
Evaluating API management alternatives
If you’re weighing up the pros and cons of Kong and Gravitee, there’s plenty to think about.
The world’s biggest companies trust Tyk to deliver exceptional API experiences.
Let’s start with the fundamentals
If you’re weighing up the pros and cons of API Management alternatives, it’s time to talk features.
Features
Benefit
Tyk
Kong
Gravitee
Six benefits of Tyk
One gateway. Free. Forever.
At Tyk we believe that everyone should be able to benefit from a powerful, enterprise-level API management solution. That’s why we don’t deliver a limited version of our gateway or one where functionality is hidden behind a paywall. Our gateway is also fully open source, now and forever. With Kong, the free gateway lacks features in comparison to the Enterprise gateway, but the Enterprise gateway isn’t open source. With Tyk, you can benefit from a fully featured gateway that’s open source as well.
Fully Featured
Tyk has all the features you need for full lifecycle enterprise API management, ready to go, out of the box and with superb support. We’ve baked features like OpenID Connect and advanced JWT authentication capabilities into our open source solution, to provide you with everything you need, right from the outset. You only need plugins for bespoke requirements, perhaps to integrate with that old legacy system you keep under a desk and don’t want to adjust. Kong features are added and extended by plugins from Kong and the community.
Product trials
We’re confident in offering free, instant, self-service access to our software to self-manage or use in the cloud, to companies of all shapes and sizes. And anyone can speak to our friendly, super-knowledgeable sales teams in London, Singapore and Atlanta USA, at any time.
Policies
Tyk allows you to apply policies governing auth, rate limits, quotas, etc, at either API level or globally. This makes changing the rules simple and instant with Tyk. Kong, on the other hand, doesn’t use policies. That means that, if you’ve issued one million tokens and you want to revoke access to all of them or change a rate limit, you need to do this for every token, one-by-one. Ouch.
Customer satisfaction
Tyk has been delivering customer satisfaction for years. It’s one of the reasons that global businesses continue to rely on us. We have a rating of 4.9 on Gartner Peer Insights, where users have praised our helpful team and excellent customer service: “Our account manager has been extremely helpful, and the support we’ve been provided with has been second to none.” “We have always received excellent service from Tyk and our feature requests have been turned around very quickly too.” “During the whole time we always got perfect support. All our questions have been answered in short time and in a very personal way.” “Customer service is also great and amazingly fast.”
No third-party tech
We’re Tyk all the way down: we’re not built on anything else. All of the Tyk components have been built by our team and our community from scratch, without reliance on other vendors or products. We own our own stack. This means that our performance and features aren’t restricted by other products. The result? Greater flexibility, as we don’t need to adapt Tyk to work within the limitations of third party dependencies. It also means no vendor lock-in and none of the associated risks that come with being tied down to specific vendors. Finally, there’s the cost benefit. Tyk isn’t at the mercy of third party providers if they choose to increase their prices – so neither are you.
Tyk vs Kong vs Gravitee
Based on verified reviews from real users in the API Management market. Gravitee has a rating of 4.6 stars with 51 reviews. Kong has a rating of 4.5 stars with 114 reviews. Tyk has a rating of 4.8 stars with 77 reviews. See side-by-side comparisons of product capabilities, customer experience, pros and cons, and reviewer demographics to find the best fit for your organisation.
Have a look at Gartner Peer Insights comparison page for more about Google Gravitee vs Kong vs Tyk.
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