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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (40.3% of reviews)
Small-Business (71.4% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
No pricing available
Kong Gateway
Star Rating
(276)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (40.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Learn more about Kong GatewayLayer7 API Management
Star Rating
(7)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (71.4% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Layer7 API ManagementPricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Kong Gateway
Kong Konnect
Pay As You Go
Per Month
- The easiest way to get started with Kong Gateway
- Customizable Dev Portal
- Plugins to extend capabilities including authentication, authorization, rate-limiting, transformations, security, and more
Layer7 API Management
No pricing availableFree Trial
Kong Gateway
Free Trial is available
Layer7 API Management
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.5
233
Not enough data
Ease of Use
8.6
236
Not enough data
Ease of Setup
8.4
179
Not enough data
Ease of Admin
8.4
137
Not enough data
Quality of Support
8.3
220
Not enough data
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.7
126
Not enough data
Product Direction (% positive)
9.3
224
Not enough data
Features by Category
Development
8.4
81
Not enough data
8.5
76
Not enough data
8.2
78
Not enough data
8.8
78
Not enough data
Collaboration
8.3
77
Not enough data
8.3
76
Not enough data
8.4
77
Not enough data
Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)Hide 15 FeaturesShow 15 Features
Not enough data
Not enough data
Prompt Engineering - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Inference Optimization - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Model Garden - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Custom Training - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Application Development - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Model Deployment - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Guardrails - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Model Monitoring - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Gateways & Routers - Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Development - API Platforms
7.8
10
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
7.2
10
Not enough data
9.0
10
Not enough data
Collaboration - API Platforms
7.8
10
Not enough data
8.3
10
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
API Management - API Platforms
7.3
10
Not enough data
8.8
10
Not enough data
9.0
10
Not enough data
7.8
10
Not enough data
6.7
10
Not enough data
API Construction
8.4
174
Not enough data
8.7
177
Not enough data
8.2
177
Not enough data
9.1
173
Not enough data
API Management
8.8
179
Not enough data
8.3
180
Not enough data
8.3
175
Not enough data
7.3
162
Not enough data
8.9
178
Not enough data
Data Integration
8.6
171
Not enough data
7.9
160
Not enough data
8.7
170
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Kong Gateway and Layer7 API Management are categorized as API Development
Unique Categories
Kong Gateway is categorized as Large Language Model Operationalization (LLMOps), API Management, and API Platforms
Layer7 API Management has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Kong Gateway
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Layer7 API Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
23.1%
Information Technology and Services
12.5%
Financial Services
8.8%
Banking
6.2%
Computer & Network Security
4.8%
Other
44.7%
Management Consulting
14.3%
Information Technology and Services
14.3%
Government Administration
14.3%
Computer Software
14.3%
Computer Networking
14.3%
Other
28.6%
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Discussions
Is Kong Devops tool?
6 Comments
DK
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What does KONG software do?
3 Comments
TP
Great question! Kong API Gateway is a service connectivity platform that allows teams to build, test, deploy, and securely expose their services across any...Read more
What is Kong API management?
1 Comment
Official Response from Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is the fastest, most-adopted API gateway. It is cloud-native, lightweight, and vendor agnostic, so you can connect services across any cloud,...Read more
Layer7 API Management has no discussions with answers
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