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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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Nikhil S.
NS
Google Product Experts
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The first thing of Kong API that ilI like the Most is it's popularity among the World. Can be used in both Hybrid and Multi cloud, it's well optimised for Microservices. It supports Load Balancing of API that's what the most I like of it. We can do clustering, checking health, monitoring few more things. It can even run in Kubernetes. It's Open Source the most Important thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The part that I don't like of Kong API gateway is we need more Integration with Kubernetes. Need more Medium post on Kong API gateways. Some times issue with connection it's get refused sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
CC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"KONG Integration"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

From my point of view, it was quite ease to implement and integrate it in our project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Optimize the documentation because it's quite frustrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos V.
CV
CTO
Entertainment
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The API swiss tool"
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

It is open source and it is well documented.

Has good coverage of different authentication modes, and environment variables. One of the best things is the code generation for the calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

To unlock some features, like team collaboration, you need to have a paid plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anjineyulu V.
AV
Data Scientist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong's 360 degree view"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The best one is to get a single view and wider window of analysis It helps in giving diffrent persona to diffrent security aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Some p99 latency are not that accurate.More statistical techniques can be used to estimate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Melanie C.
MC
Account Executive
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"An unbeatable combination of security, scalability, and flexibility"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I am thoroughly impresse­d with the commitment to security de­monstrated by Kong API Gateway. Additionally, its ability to scale on-de­mand and the wide range of plugins it offe­rs, along with their ease of inte­gration, have greatly optimized our API manage­ment tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Troubleshooting issues with the Kong API can be quite difficult, but offering more descriptive error messages will greatly enhance the process and deliver substantial advantages for users of this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rui Pedro L.
RL
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Solid API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Super easy to setup in a cloud provider or even as a container running in your own network, exposing which services you want to the outside world.

Pretty easy to configure and maintain, has good documentation, and a good community around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Open source version is somewhat limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ZM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A Strong Tool with Some Room for Development"
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

I think it very easy to use like for create and save workspace , import and export requests and to debug requests.And Insomnia supported a wide range of features, including REST, GraphQL, and SOAP requests, which made it a versatile tool that I could use for a variety of projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

I think the documentation is not as comprehensive as I would like so that is too difficult to find information I need.And the application's performance can be slow when i working with l requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogesh Kumar P.
YP
Software Engineer II (G1)
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It's great & reliable to use"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It's best in connection pool (i.e connection is good ), as compare to usage it is great as compared to other API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing as such of now I seen in my experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ketan D.
KD
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong is a great product"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API gateway has many features and is very useful. The upsides are high availability and a very reliable platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing I can think of at the moment. Everything is gravy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong makes API Management easy task for us"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong has the easy to understand user interface for managing APIs using the Gateway Manager and Mesh Manager. Support via email is responsive and timely. We were smoothly able to integrate APIs hosted on AWS infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Analytics are on-point but it could be more comprehensive, else everything looks great. 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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