Apigee vs. Kong Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Apigee API Management is a more feature-rich platform compared to Kong Gateway if API lifecycle management is your objective. Although often compared to Apigee, Kong is really just an API gateway, and a great and inexpensive option if that’s all you need.

🤔 Strongly consider Apigee over Kong if

• You’re looking for API lifecycle management (i.e., more than an API gateway).
• You’d like a rich and customizable developer portal.
• You’re monetizing your API.
• You’d like prebuilt APIs for different industry verticals like Finance, Healthcare, etc.

🤔 Strongly consider Kong over Apigee if

• You are building a microservices and service mesh architecture.
• You want lots of deployment flexibility. Kong supports many deployment models.
• You’d like to integrate with third-party tools via plugins.

📝 Other Notes

• Kong Gateway has limited support for gRPC use cases. On the other hand, Apigee API Management has very good support for gRPC.