Comparison

Apigee vs KrakenD

On the evidence we track, KrakenD leads this comparison with a composite score of 50/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Apigee44
★KrakenD50
Score
vioscaleAI score
Apigee44 / 100low · 39%
KrakenD50 / 100medium · 67%
Pricing
Free tier
Apigee–
KrakenD✓
Model
KrakenDfreemium
Price level
Apigeeunknown
KrakenDlow
Transparent
Apigee✗
KrakenD✓
Integrations
Count
Apigee4
KrakenD12
Reliability
Status page
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Apigee–
KrakenD0
Github stars
Apigee–
KrakenD2,691
Activity
Commits last 30d
Apigee–
KrakenD23
Release
Cadence days
Apigee–
KrakenD19
History
Apigee–
KrakenD20 items
License
Spdx
Apigee–
KrakenDApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Apigee–
KrakenDGo
Content
Faq
Apigee4 items
KrakenD8 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Hosting
ApigeeCloud only
KrakenDCloud + self-hosted
Kubernetes-native
Apigee-
KrakenD✓
Traffic
Rate limiting
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Request/response transformation
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Apigee-
KrakenD✓
Mutual TLS
Apigee-
KrakenD✓
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
gRPC support
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Delivery
Developer portal
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Monetization
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
ApigeeLimited
KrakenDLimited
Insight
Observability
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Apigee

A cloud service for consolidating APIs into a unified catalog, implementing security and traffic controls, and providing operational visibility through analytics and policy management.

Independently observed

KrakenD

Leader

An open-source gateway positioned between client applications and backend services that aggregates, transforms, and secures API traffic across distributed microservice architectures with minimal resource consumption.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Apigee

Hybrid60-day trial

Pay-as-you-go or subscription pricing available; contact for specific rates

as of verify ↗

KrakenD

Leader
HybridFree tier

Free Community Edition; Enterprise Edition available by quote

  • Community EditionFree
  • Enterprise EditionContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Apigee✓
KrakenD✗
Linux
Apigee✗
KrakenD✓
CLI
Apigee✓
KrakenD✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Apigee✓
KrakenD✓
Self-hosted
Apigee✗
KrakenD✓
On-premise
Apigee✗
KrakenD✓
Hybrid
Apigee✗
KrakenD✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Apigee

4 total
  • Google Cloud L7 Load Balancers
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini Code Assist
  • Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Independently observed

KrakenD

Leader
24 total
  • REST APIs
  • RabbitMQ
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Kafka
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • SOAP
  • Lambda
  • NATS
  • OpenAI
  • Moesif
  • Google Analytics
  • Amazon SNS
  • Amazon SQS
  • Apache Kafka
  • AWS Lambda
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kibana
  • Datadog
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Zipkin
  • Jaeger
Independently observed
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Apigee or KrakenD: which one depends on you

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