When comparing Kinvey vs Strapi, the Slant community recommends Kinvey for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Firebase?” Kinvey is ranked 2nd while Strapi is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Kinvey is:
When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously).
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Pros
Pro Asynchronous file uploading
When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously).
Pro Provides a straightforward way of connecting their services
Setting up a backend for an app with Kinvey is very easy and takes minutes. All you have to do is sign up and through their graphical interface follow all the steps, which boils down to creating tables and identifying the type of data that is being stored.
Then you download the library, integrate it with your app and initialize the process with one single line.
Pro User registration is easy
User registration with Kinvey is pretty good and usually works without any problems. It's also very easy to use, you simply pass the username, password, email, etc. to the required method and register a callback that returns whether the registration was a success or a failure.
Same thing is done for login and logout as well.
Pro Auto-generate REST APIs
Strapi comes with blueprints that let you create, read, update and delete your data. You also can paginate, sort and filter your results in a matter of seconds with simple but yet specific parameters.
Pro Users, groups and permissions
Manage user settings, login, registration, groups and permissions on the fly. Strapi delivers all those essential features out-of-the-box.
Pro Out-of-the-box administration panel
Easy way to manage your application. This panel allows you to add/edit/delete entries for your APIs, manage your users, groups and permissions. In the future, it will be such as WordPress-like administration panel dedicated to your application.
Cons
Con Costs are eye-wateringly high
The free tier is not that generous and as soon as you trip the paid tier it costs you thousands a month.
Con The free plan isn't that good
Kinvey's free plan only includes the first 1000 users for free, 5 million push notifications (which admittedly, is pretty nice) and 2GB of storage.
