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What is Kong API Platform?

The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack. And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.

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The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack. And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.

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Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.

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291 Kong API Platform Reviews
4.4 out of 5
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Gaurav S.
GS
Full Stack Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Unlocking Seamless API Management"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I like best part of Kong API Gateway is its high performance and versatility, making it exceptionally well-suited for Cloud Native and DevOps-oriented architectures. And also best part is its open-source nature which will support for various deployment modes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I dislike main thing about Kong API Gateway is it's absence of an Analytics & Monitoring. Also for enterprise version licensing model is complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PS
Data Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Product review"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Flexibility, scalability, security ,builtin analytics and monitoring capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Complexity and limited developer portal features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit B.
AB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Robust & Scalable API Gateway with a great open source community"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API gateway has delivers great performance along with all the core desired features, the documentation is awesome along with great community + customer support. Its easy to integrate and use across environments.

Its easy to implement in a distributed microservice setup. It scales well with high frequency usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Open source issue prioritization can be made even better in collaboration with the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VP
Fullstack Dev
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazing API"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

the intuitive way to register apps and routes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

it does not handle good the connections to the databse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
CB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great for proxy apis"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Its great option to use kong when the requirement is to integrate apis which is just pass through which act as a proxy api. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Orchestraction capability is quite difficult to integrate apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saumil A.
SA
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great API Gateway Service"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Best features like security and srvice discovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

More integeration with Azure and AWS required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron R.
AR
DevSecOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong: The easiest tool for managing a network"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is a highpowered and highly customizeable Nginx service which has been given a lot of attention when it was being created. Kong has some of the best documentation of any application I've ever deployed. Kong also offers lots of options when it comes to configuration, setting up configurations is super easily with the provided DecK tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong is just an application designed to get you to pay for the advanced featues. Authentication plugins should not be a paid for premium feature and should be available for all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong API GW is a popular for managing APIs. It's known for being fast,flexible and easy to set up."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

-->High performance and scalability

-->Flexibility and ease of use

-->Extensibility with plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Security configuration complexity

Management overhead for multiple Gateways Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek G.
AG
Mern Stack developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The great aspect approximately Kong API Gateway which I like is its robust and characteristic-rich nature. It presents a centralized platform for handling APIs and microservices. Apart from it Kong API gives diverse protection features to protect your APIs and make sure the security and integrity of your API surroundings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The thing I dislike about Kong API Gateway is predicated on external services, consisting of databases, caching systems, and load balancers. If any of those dependencies revel in troubles or downtime, it may impact the availability and functionality of the gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piyush C.
PC
Analyst
Real Estate
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong Mesh: A simple, secure and scalable service mesh solution"
Product Reviewed: Kong Mesh
What do you like best about Kong Mesh?

I like how Envoy and Kuma, two open-source projects that are widely used in the service mesh industry, are included in Kong Mesh. For Kubernetes and VMs in any cloud or environment, Kong Mesh offers corporate functionality and support. Additionally, Kong Enterprise interacts seamlessly with it, providing a full-stack connection platform for all of my services and APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Mesh?

There isn't much wrong with Kong Mesh, but I'd like to see more tutorials and instructions on how to use it well in various situations and use cases. The GUI interface, in my opinion, could benefit from more customization and filtering choices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

11%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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