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Kong API Platform Suite Overview

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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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Shitiz T.
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Technical Lead - Microsoft Azure, Devops
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong API gateway - gateway to success"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Configurability, ease of use, Informative logging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Documentation seems to be not complete in terms of troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

N D.
ND
Frontend Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong's Simplified API gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

In my opinion, Kong API Gateway is a great choice because of its lightweight nature, also it's ease of installation, and ease of use even for beginners. Moreover, it has an intuitive user interface that is sleek and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The Kong API can be expensive for smaller teams, but apart from that, I cannot think of anything I dislike about Kong API. It's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation
UA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong Konnect"
Product Reviewed: Kong Konnect
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Simple, open, automated and standards based. plug-in based modular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Steeper learning curve when learning the more technical features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bijit G.
BG
CTO - Global Head of Cloud Product & Engineering & AI/ML
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Head Of Engineering - enabling the cloud services"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

plugin architecture that enables developers to customize and extend its core functionality

Service Discovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Because of its complexity, Kong may have a steeper learning curve for developers who are not already familiar with its architecture and plugin system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best gateway in the market"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Lightweight with low cost on infrastructure to run.

Major features come out of the box enterprise plugin

Support multi-cloud deployment and integration

Easy to customize the developer portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Product Roadmap - time to delivery can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good tools with lots of security feature and leading market on api gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kafka API Gateway is full of security and scalability features which were the main reasons we moved to Kong API Gateway. It is cheaper as well compared to Google API GEE and other API Gateway offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kafka API Gateway needs further simplification. Also resource material needs to be improved. There are not many courses available which can be referred by learner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sachin H.
SH
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong for fastest API gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I love Kong API Gateway because it's very lightweight, very easy to install in different platform and even beginners can also find easy to learn and use, fantastic tool for API development and management like Postman etc. and it's user friendly UI experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Obviously in every projects there are more apis, sometimes I feel like difficulty in complexity, and also add more details to documents, other than that i didn't observed any other downside. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fabian H.
FH
Geschäftsführer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong: Super lightweight and fast API gateway solution"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is a fantastic product that supports the process of holistic API management excellently. It's super lightweight, especially with its plugin-based approach. Their support makes the daily work of API development much easier and saves many lines of code in your applications.

In addition, I have found the support to be very competent and helpful. So far we have always received quick and appropriate answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Overall, I have almost no criticisms. In some cases, the documentation could be more precise or more detailed. In the case of more complex architectures, the examples in the documentation could be presented more specifically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GS
Network Administrator
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"value of Kong API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

it supports the full lifecycle management of APIs via other products like API Analytics, API Portal, Kong Mesh Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

it's open source software.it's more knowledge to operates and handle it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nilesh S.
NS
Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong API is very reliable."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I really like the availability and services kong offer to manage the APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There is some learning curve involved before you get to use all the services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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