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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
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291 Kong API Platform Reviews
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Verified User in Investment Banking
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Common API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is just a common API Gateway, portable, similar to API Gee. The fast way that process petitions is the thing i like most Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Is not easy, and in some cases not possible, to develop custom policies for hard bussiness logic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Walid M.
WM
Communications System Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
""Efficient API management for microservices""
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It's Efficient API management for microservices.

And Ease of Implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

it's very reliable system nothing is wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahendra B.
MB
Associate Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great for API testing and developing policies"
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

The best thing about Insomnia is it's user friendly interface. It's not complex set of things and new users also can easily understand. I can have multiple group of sub projects which helps me in microservices environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

There is nothing much to dislike about Insomnia. But in the market there very good competetion from other applications like postman. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tlotlo K.
TK
Co-Founder & CTO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Using the Kong API Gateway made it easy for me to manage a complex system and streamline my workflow"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

What I like best about Kong API Gateway is how feature-rich it is. It provides a lot of functionality, so it's easy to customize and extend. And it's also very user-friendly, so it's easy to set up and get up and running Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

One of the things I dislike about Kong API Gateway is that the documentation can be a bit confusing to interpret. It's also not always clear which features are essential for a specific use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANJANI K.
AK
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Streamline Your API Management with Kong API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

As a reviewer, I appreciate Kong API Gateway's flexibility and customizability the most. Users can quickly adapt and tailor the tool to match their unique demands because of its user-friendly platform and variety of plugins. Additionally, it's an excellent choice for businesses trying to simplify API management and enhance the performance and security of their microservices, thanks to its extensive security features, comprehensive monitoring capabilities, and analytics tools. Overall, Kong API Gateway is a solid and adaptable technology that may assist businesses of all sizes in improving their API management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I must give a fair evaluation of Kong API Gateway as a reviewer. Even while some users have mentioned complexity and sporadic bugs, these are problems that all API gateways face and are not specific to Kong API Gateway. Kong API Gateway is still a popular option for API management despite this because of its flexibility, security features, and monitoring capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sanjay P.
SP
AI Engineer
Human Resources
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Streamlining API Management with Kong"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

One of the key advantages of Kong API Gateway is its flexibility and versatility. It offers a wide range of features and customization options, allowing users to tailor the solution to their specific needs and requirements. It also supports various deployment options, from on-premise installations to cloud-based environments, and can integrate with a broad range of third-party tools and platforms. Additionally, Kong's focus on security and reliability helps ensure that APIs are protected and perform well, which is critical for many organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

One potential downside of Kong API Gateway is that its extensive feature set and flexibility can make it complex to set up and configure, particularly for less experienced users. Some users have reported that the documentation could be more detailed or user-friendly in certain areas. Additionally, some of the more advanced features may require additional plugins or modules, which could result in added complexity or performance overhead. Finally, while Kong does offer a free, open-source version of its platform, some of the more advanced features are only available in the paid Enterprise version, which may be a consideration for some users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Efficient API management for microservices"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong Gateway provides various configuration and change management options saas platform hosted at customer infrastructure.

Kong provides the ability to bring our own custom plugins thereby enhancing community adoption and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Open source nature of the platform does pose a rick of delayed support when it comes to integration with other systems as well as new feature requests. But i'm sure the team is working on it :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul C.
RC
Associate Specilaist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best API gateway tool -Load Balancing and reverse Proxy workd pretty well and configured."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong offers a unified platform that effectively manages all APIs, ensuring uniform security, monitoring, and traffic control across a large number of services.

Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Sometimes -Its essential to carefully configure and optimize it to minimize any potential performance impact.Limited plugins as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MRIDUL N.
MN
Individual contributor
Higher Education
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Fast and easy"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The best thing about this gateway is that it is fast and has high throughput. I like the mutual TLS authentication feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I once faced the broken admin API dependency issue in the 3. x version, while the 2. x version worked fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subhadip P.
SP
Student Assistant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong API Gateway Review for API aggregation"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is excellent for docker-based microservices. I used it quite a time and was very impressed by it. It is easy to use and it is super fast in terms of performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

But API aggregation is lacking as we have to implement the extra layer to get that. The extra layer may be microservice and serverless , but no build-in support is there 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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