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Kong API Platform Suite Overview

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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Verified User in Insurance
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong Konnect- Get Up and Running Immediately"
Product Reviewed: Kong Konnect
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Very clean, simple interface, easy to spin up the API via service version, publish to the portal with swagger and can install runtime in your cloud account or on premises! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Not so easy to ascertain the gateway address in UI, and the RBAC is a bit confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sudhir p.
SP
Senior Technology Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Reviewing insomnia tool which is very good tool for testing Restful applications"
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

The performances of tool is very good.

Its check all the parameters of interfaces like security,reliability,functionality etc.

Its able to test the endpoints also.

It is cross platform framework which is very cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

Its not complete free.

Unnecessary so much plugins are there which is very confusing some time.

Postman is ease to use as compare to this framework.

Sometimes cookies management is difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PW
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Swift and handy API gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The performance is great and it support wild range of platform from POSIX installation to Docker and K8S. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

It will be more appreciated if can streamline the plugin lifecycle and putting resource to encourage community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OMER Y.
OY
Sr. Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great products and services"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

When we first decided to procure the Kong Enterprise Gateway, one of the main selling points was the extensive library of plugins that were available and allowed for extending the base functionality of the gateway in various useful ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

This is not a viable alternative to Informatica, so the overall features are limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arun K.
AK
Sr Devops Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"My Experience in Kong"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I liked kong for high-availability clusters and includes an extensive range of plugins to address cross-cutting concerns, including authentication, security, rate limiting, throttling, transformations, analytics and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong Console User Interface is not that much great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Securing modern enterprise application"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It's easy to use and provides me a lot of options to configure and secure my api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Web ui could be better, yo needs more options with more options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jorge  P.
JP
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great ecosystem"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Its app ecosystem enables standardization for authentication across organization applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Documentation could be improved to flatten newcomers learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant C.
PC
Head of Engineering
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simple Setup, Easy to configure and customise."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is very easy to setup, configure and customise. It has a great community support as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing specific as such. But logging features can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Reviewing Kong"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is the most user friendly API gateway I have used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There is not much I don't like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
CC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Truely Cloud Native & Platform Agnostic"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Lightweight, flexible & latform agnostic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Doesn't support the Drupal developer portal 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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