Comparison

KrakenD vs Red Hat 3scale

No clear leader: KrakenD (51.9) and Red Hat 3scale (50.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. 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
KrakenD52
Red Hat 3scale50
Score
Vioscale score
KrakenD52 / 100high · 76%
Red Hat 3scale50 / 100low · 13%
Pricing
Free tier
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Model
KrakenDcommercial
Red Hat 3scalecommercial
Price level
KrakenDlow
Red Hat 3scale
Transparent
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Integrations
Count
KrakenD13
Red Hat 3scale
Security
Disclosure policy
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Gdpr
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Soc2
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Reliability
Status page
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Adoption
Dependent repos
KrakenD0
Red Hat 3scale
Github stars
KrakenD2,668
Red Hat 3scale
Activity
Commits last 30d
KrakenD9
Red Hat 3scale
Release
Cadence days
KrakenD24
Red Hat 3scale
History
KrakenD20 items
Red Hat 3scale
License
Spdx
KrakenDApache-2.0
Red Hat 3scale
Language
Primary
KrakenDGo
Red Hat 3scale
Market
Availability
Red Hat 3scale

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

KrakenD

KrakenD is an open-source API gateway offering both a free community edition and a commercial enterprise version. It provides API aggregation, request/response transformation, traffic management, and security features for microservices and AI workload routing.

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.

KrakenD

HybridFree tier

Free Community Edition; Enterprise Edition available by quote

  • Community EditionFree
  • Enterprise EditionContact sales
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
CLI
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Self-hosted
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale
Hybrid
KrakenD
Red Hat 3scale

Integrations

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

KrakenD

13 total
  • REST APIs
  • RabbitMQ
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Kafka
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • SOAP
  • Lambda
  • NATS
  • OpenAI
  • Moesif
  • Google Analytics
Independently observed

Red Hat 3scale

Not documented yet.

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