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Skaleet vs Spring Cloud Gateway

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Skaleet

APIs

Cloud-native core banking and payment hub with deployments measured in months

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Spring Cloud Gateway logo

Spring Cloud Gateway

APIs

API gateway built on Project Reactor for building microservices

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Spring Cloud Gateway has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Skaleet the installed base is in the tens rather than the hundreds, so the pool of consultants and systems integrators who know the platform is small and expensive.; Spring Cloud Gateway released under the Apache 2.0 license, free and open source with no commercial tier
  • They diverge on capability: Skaleet covers Cloud-native core, Spring Cloud Gateway covers Routing.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Skaleet and Spring Cloud Gateway actually diverge.

Attributes where Skaleet and Spring Cloud Gateway differ
AttributeSkaleetSpring Cloud Gateway
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelquoteopen-source
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWeb, REST API, LinuxJava, Spring Boot
FoundedUnknown1998

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (APIs).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Skaleet

  • Cloud-native core
  • Payment hub
  • Card management
  • Lending
  • API-first
  • Configurable products

Only in Spring Cloud Gateway

  • Routing
  • Path Rewriting
  • Circuit Breaker
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring Security
  • Spring Cloud
  • Java support
  • Spring Boot support

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Skaleet

  • A banking group launching a digital savings or deposit brand in a new country within a yearnot Spring Cloud Gateway
  • A bank modernising payments to ISO 20022 without replacing its whole corenot Spring Cloud Gateway
  • A payroll or HR software company adding embedded banking to its productnot Spring Cloud Gateway
  • A payment service provider needing a ledger and accounts under its existing licencenot Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Gateway

  • API Developmentnot Skaleet
  • API Gatewaynot Skaleet
  • API Testingnot Skaleet
  • API Documentationnot Skaleet
  • Microservicesnot Skaleet

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Skaleet

  • The installed base is in the tens rather than the hundreds, so the pool of consultants and systems integrators who know the platform is small and expensive.
  • Speed references are mostly greenfield launches inside large groups, which is an easier problem than migrating an existing book off a legacy core.
  • It is European-centric, with payment rails and regulatory work concentrated on SEPA and EU requirements rather than global coverage.
  • As a smaller vendor carrying a bank core, it attracts hard concentration and viability questions in procurement that larger competitors do not face.
  • Pricing is unpublished and scaled by accounts and transactions, so a bank whose volumes grow faster than forecast faces cost escalation it did not model.

Spring Cloud Gateway

  • Released under the Apache 2.0 license, free and open source with no commercial tier

Pricing, plan by plan

Skaleet

On request
  • Skaleet Core Banking Platform$undefined/year
    • Subscription licence scaled by accounts and transaction volume
    • Payment hub licensable separately from the full core
    • Implementation and configuration charged as a project

Spring Cloud Gateway

Free
  • Open SourceFree
    • Core Spring Cloud Gateway
    • Community support

Which should you pick?

Choose Skaleet if

  • You need cloud-native core.
  • You work on Web, REST API, Linux.
  • You also want payment hub.
Skaleet review

Choose Spring Cloud Gateway if

  • You need routing.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Java, Spring Boot.
  • You also want path rewriting.
Spring Cloud Gateway review

Questions people ask

Is Skaleet or Spring Cloud Gateway better?
Neither clearly leads. Skaleet starts at On request and Spring Cloud Gateway at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Skaleet or Spring Cloud Gateway?
Spring Cloud Gateway has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Skaleet and Free for Spring Cloud Gateway.
Does Skaleet or Spring Cloud Gateway run on more platforms?
Skaleet runs on Web, REST API, Linux. Spring Cloud Gateway runs on Java, Spring Boot.
Can I use Spring Cloud Gateway for free?
Yes. Spring Cloud Gateway has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Skaleet starts at On request.
What is Skaleet best used for?
Skaleet is most often used for a banking group launching a digital savings or deposit brand in a new country within a year, a bank modernising payments to iso 20022 without replacing its whole core, a payroll or hr software company adding embedded banking to its product, a payment service provider needing a ledger and accounts under its existing licence. Of those, a banking group launching a digital savings or deposit brand in a new country within a year and a bank modernising payments to iso 20022 without replacing its whole core are not what Spring Cloud Gateway is typically brought in for.
What can Skaleet do that Spring Cloud Gateway cannot?
Skaleet covers Cloud-native core, Payment hub, Card management, Lending. Spring Cloud Gateway covers Routing, Path Rewriting, Circuit Breaker, Spring Boot.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Skaleet: What was Skaleet called before?

TagPay. The company rebranded to Skaleet while keeping the same platform lineage.

Spring Cloud Gateway: Is Spring Cloud Gateway free?

Yes, Spring Cloud Gateway is free and open-source software. It is part of the Spring ecosystem and available through GitHub repositories with open-source dependencies like spring-cloud-starter-gateway-server-webflux and spring-cloud-starter-gateway-server-webmvc.

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Skaleet: Can I buy just the payment hub?

Yes. The payment engine is licensable standalone and can sit over an existing core, which is a common first step.

Spring Cloud Gateway: What enterprise support is available for Spring Cloud Gateway?

Tanzu Spring provides optional enterprise support including Day 0 access to security patches for organizations requiring guaranteed support, but specific pricing is not published on the Spring Cloud Gateway project page.

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Skaleet: How fast are real deployments?

Named European deployments have gone live in six to twelve months, including a Crédit Agricole savings platform live in Germany in eight months.

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