G2 Vendor Directory

KrakenD AI & API Gateway vs. Stoplight

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

MetricKrakenD AI & API Gateway

by KrakenD

Stoplight

by SmartBear

Overall rating4.74.4
Review count68341
Ease of use9.18.7
Ease of setup9.09.0
Quality of support9.68.7
Meets requirements9.38.8
NPS79.41176559.516616
Small Business29.9%49.0%
Mid-Market56.7%37.8%
Enterprise13.4%13.2%
Total page views262233
Total LLM citations42,130

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

Stoplight

Let Stoplight be your platform for building high-quality APIs for any scale - with best-in-class editing, documentation, and governance featuring built-in mocking, linting, style guides, component libraries, and more. Coding APIs before designing them wastes time and money and creates unnecessary risk. Build successful API programs at any scale that drive business outcomes with a design-first approach. Stoplight is the only design-focused API solution.

Pros