G2 Vendor Directory

KrakenD AI & API Gateway vs. Azure API Apps

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricKrakenD AI & API Gateway

by KrakenD

Azure API Apps

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.74.2
Review count6822
Ease of use9.19.0
Ease of setup9.00.0
Quality of support9.69.0
Meets requirements9.39.0
NPS79.41176547.368421
Small Business29.9%31.8%
Mid-Market56.7%40.9%
Enterprise13.4%27.3%
Total page views26296
Total LLM citations411

KrakenD AI & API Gateway

KrakenD is the next-generation API Gateway built for high-performance, large-scale environments. Its stateless, database-free architecture enables true linear scalability with minimal infrastructure and no external dependencies. You can deploy KrakenD anywhere, scale without coordination, and operate efficiently using GitOps workflows and declarative configurations. It supports a wide range of protocols and patterns—REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, SOAP, Backend For Frontend (BFF), and more—without middleware bloat.

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Ease of Use
  • Ease of Implementation
  • Features
  • Flexibility
  • Performance

Azure API Apps

Azure API app is a platform as a Service solution under the umbrella of Web Apps. It gives you the inbuilt features to work with APIs seamlessly like inbuilt support for the metadata using swagger, along with the API definition support on the portal.

Pros