Gloo Edge vs. Kong Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Gloo has much better support for service mesh architectures, but Kong isn’t bad relative to others in the API Gateway space.

🤔 Strongly consider Gloo Edge over Kong if

• You’re building a service mesh architecture to manage North-South and East-West traffic.
• You need to leverage the API cache to reduce the number of calls made to your backend APIs.
• You want better GraphQL support.

🤔 Strongly consider Kong over Gloo Edge if

• You require better access control features.
• API versioning, policy versioning, API composition, and aggregating results from multiple services, are all important features for you.
• You want better features for testing, managing, and organizing your tests and reports.

📝 Other Notes

• Gloo Edge does not have a free trial.
• Gloo is an Envoy proxy-based gateway, but Kong also recently introduced support for Envoy.