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Market leaders across industries trust DigitalAPI
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Why Kong Falls Short for Modern API Programs?
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No unified API discovery beyond kong
Kong only sees APIs behind its gateway, leaving enterprises blind to APIs in other gateways, repos, clouds, or legacy systems.
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Poor documentation and developer experience
Fragmented docs and inconsistent metadata make discovery hard; developers struggle to onboard, debug plugins, or understand API ownership at scale.
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No enterprise-grade monetization
Kong lacks native monetization, subscription tiers, or productized catalogs, limiting how enterprises package, price, and expose APIs.
Limited governance and analytics
Kong delivers traffic performance but offers minimal governance, weak RBAC depth, and no unified analytics across environments, gateways, or domains.
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Why choose DigitalAPI over Kong for API Management?
Kong delivers high-performance traffic management, but with DigitalAPI you get unified API discovery, clean metadata, governance, analytics, and visibility across multiple gateways and clouds.
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Unified API Visibility
Catalog and discover APIs from all gateways, repos, and environments in one place, eliminating blind spots and fragmented visibility.
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Enterprise Governance Layer
Enforce consistent policies, lifecycle rules, clean metadata, and security checks automatically, ensuring every API meets enterprise standards by default.
Developer Experience That Works
Get a unified developer portal with clean documentation, sandboxing, and access management which is far smoother than managing fragmented portals.
Built-In Monetization
Offer subscription plans, usage controls, and self-serve onboarding in a modern portal, turning APIs into products, not just endpoints.
DigitalAPI vs Kong: Feature Breakdown
Here’s why you should choose Digital API over Kong!
Feature
Core purpose
Unified multi-gateway API control plane, catalog, governance, developer portal, and analytics, all in one platform.
API gateway focused on traffic management, routing, plugins, and runtime performance.
Time to value
Go-live in weeks with automated discovery, instant cataloging, and pre-built governance.
Setup requires custom configs, plugin setup, and manual integration across environments.
API visibility & discovery
Full-estate visibility across Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, AWS, Azure, GitHub, Postman & more.
Only shows services routed through Kong; no cross-gateway or repo-level discovery.
Developer experience
Unified portal with docs, testing, sandbox, access flows, and monetization built in.
Dev portal exists but requires heavy config; debugging plugins and publishing flows is complex.
Feature
Core purpose
Unified multi-gateway API control plane, catalog, governance, developer portal, and analytics, all in one platform.
API gateway focused on traffic management, routing, plugins, and runtime performance.
Time to value
Go-live in weeks with automated discovery, instant cataloging, and pre-built governance.
Setup requires custom configs, plugin setup, and manual integration across environments.
API visibility & discovery
Full-estate visibility across Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, AWS, Azure, GitHub, Postman & more.
Only shows services routed through Kong; no cross-gateway or repo-level discovery.
Developer experience
Unified portal with docs, testing, sandbox, access flows, and monetization built in.
Dev portal exists but requires heavy config; debugging plugins and publishing flows is complex.
Governance & security
Cross-gateway governance, metadata standards, policy checks, RBAC, version drift alerts.
Strong authentication & rate limiting, but limited governance outside Kong-managed services.
API Monetization
Built-in API monetization with subscriptions, billing, usage metering, and marketplace support.
No native monetization suite; requires external systems or custom build-outs.
Analytics & insights
Unified performance, usage, latency, errors, domains, across all gateways.
Analytics limited to APIs running on Kong; no aggregated multi-gateway insights.
Cost & scalability
Predictable subscription without per-service or per-environment penalties.
Pricing grows with every service, plugin, and environment; becomes expensive at scale.
Powering business for Fortune 500 companies
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Stop Treating Your Gateway as an API Management Platform? Switch to DigitalAPI today!
Kong was built for API producers, routing, plugins, and performance, but it stops there. The consumer side suffers with weak RBAC, scattered documentation, no real monetization, and a developer portal that isn’t developer-friendly. As a result, with Kong, your partners and internal teams still struggle to discover, onboard, and use APIs efficiently.
DigitalAPI fills those gaps instantly with a unified catalog, clean documentation, and deep role-based access, across every gateway, not just Kong. Developers finally get a single place to search, subscribe, and test APIs with zero friction.
While Kong stops at traffic, DigitalAPI turns APIs into products, complete with usage plans, monetization flows, analytics, and governance. Your partner, consumer, and internal API programs can finally scale beyond the limits of a gateway.
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