Kong vs. MuleSoft Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Kong is not an API management solution, but a best-in-class API gateway. If the API use cases are limited and a lightweight solution is preferred, then Kong is usually a better fit compared to MuleSoft Anypoint API Management.

🤔 Strongly consider Kong over MuleSoft if

• You need a better tool for API testing and generating test reports from the console.
• You’d prefer having ease of integration using standard APIs and plugins.

🤔 Strongly consider MuleSoft over Kong if

• You want to monetize and monitor your APIs.
• You’d like automatic API generation from code. 
• You want prebuilt API specifications and mappings for different industry verticals available to you.

📝 Other Notes

• Kong has a better gateway than MuleSoft for traffic and access control.
• MuleSoft Anypoint API Management has better support for data transformation and orchestration in comparison to Kong Gateway.
• MuleSoft Anypoint API Management has much better support for webhooks, WebSockets, MQTT, and SSE compared to Kong Gateway.