Comparison

Gloo Gateway vs Red Hat 3scale

No leader: the top candidate Gloo Gateway has only 0.33 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Gloo Gateway51
Red Hat 3scale50
Score
Vioscale score
Gloo Gateway51 / 100low · 33%
Red Hat 3scale50 / 100low · 13%
Pricing
Free tier
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Model
Gloo Gatewayfreemium
Red Hat 3scalecommercial
Price level
Gloo Gatewaylow
Red Hat 3scale
Transparent
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Security
Disclosure policy
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Soc2
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Reliability
Status page
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Hosting
Gloo GatewaySelf-hosted only
Red Hat 3scale-
Kubernetes-native
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Traffic
Rate limiting
Gloo Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Request/response transformation
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Gloo Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Mutual TLS
Gloo Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
gRPC support
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Delivery
Developer portal
Gloo Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Monetization
Gloo Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Gloo Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Insight
Observability
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-

What each one is

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

Gloo Gateway

Enterprise-grade API gateway delivering high performance with flexibility for self-managed deployment. Handles 400k+ requests/sec, 7+ years in production, built on open-source Envoy with CNCF governance.

Independently observed

Red Hat 3scale

Red Hat 3scale is an API management solution that helps organizations design, build, and operate APIs at scale.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Gloo Gateway

HybridFree tier

Free open source forever. Enterprise support available.

  • Open SourceFree
    • Request routing by path, header, method, query parameter, host
    • Kubernetes Gateway API support
    • Traffic splitting and transformation
    • Multi-protocol support: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket
    • Active community with regular releases
  • Solo EnterpriseContact sales
    • 24x7 Support SLA with guaranteed response times
    • N-3 Long Term Support with security patches and bug fixes
    • FIPS Compliant Images
    • Private Slack Channel with white-glove support
as of verify ↗

Red Hat 3scale

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
CLI
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Deployment
Self-hosted
Gloo Gateway
Red Hat 3scale

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.