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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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291 Kong API Platform Reviews
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Krishna moorthy v.
KV
Technology Support Specialist
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong API Gateway - A Perfect Platform Enabling Communication Between Services and Compute Clients"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

As the Kong API Gateway extends the Capabilities of APIs and also we can upscale Microservices by routing the Client using the Abstraction layer, if in case of Building up their own Target Service. Also, Kong helps in Load Balancing across their loads concerning Multiple Services based on their usability. So the Implementation of duplicate Functionality concerning Applications can be easily identified based on the Security.As the KONG as API Gateway is used as an IAM Solution, and also the applications that are being run using KONG are Scalable under AWS Workloads, So the different ranges of installation across the several other Containers make the deployment happen Quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Sometimes there may be a risk of Complexity due to all the API Rules that may disturb Routing across Multiple Channels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kumar A.
KA
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong API Gateway: Feature Rich, Secure and Versatile option for Modern Micro Services"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Best features we liked about this gateway

-Feature-rich and easy integration with Microservices application, dockerized components

- Highly Scalable for growing business needs

- Versatile security features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Some of the downsides of this gateway

- Considerable learning curve and adoption.

- Plugins are available and custom plugin development is not very flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Soodit K.
SK
Web Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"KONG: Easy Management for your API"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong has an incredible UI experience and the accessibility of various plugins and the simple accessibility to various stages makes it more utilitarian when contrasted with other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There aren't many dislikes on my list, but some plugins are only available as an enterprise license, which can be somewhat annoying. I believe it is slightly expensive for smaller teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav G.
VG
Core Team
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Quick and Secure API Management"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It can be deployed quite easily from a container

It is easy to start using the API and we can deploy our first API within a few minutes

Simple and easy to manage APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Although the pricing is quite expensive for a team of 1-10 members of a company, except that I have had no negative experiences using it for the past 3 months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal Kumar Verma .
K
Student
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome product"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API gateway is an excellent product. It has many features that qualify it as the most trusted gateway. The thing which I like the most about this product is its beginner-friendly structure which makes it quite simple for first-timers to use it. Apart from that, the variety of features acts as a cherry on the cake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Although the API is good, it lends it down is its customer support. Dealing with connection-related issues can be cumbersome due to its poor customer service. I'd be happier if it's improved a little bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikhil H.
NH
Junior Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Experience of KONG API"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It is easy to use and we can scale the service as per the requirement also it is the most secured one for microservices and distributed architectures. Great performance too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing but the credentials are provided by the admin as we customers can't change them, and customer care support needs to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RR
Manager of Special Projects
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A great product for enterprises"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Architecture is spot on. Documentation is spot on. Learning Labs are spot on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I don't dislike any thing. I come from a background of developing before the internet as we know it. No windows.... So... I understand and appreciate the architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ahmed W.
AW
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong Admin API was very helpful and Kong Manager made things easy."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The best thing about kong API is it can run on Kubernetes. It helped us load balance the users and logging. We were just testing. We will Increase its use in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Till now everything is going great. It would be helpful if the documentation also includes screenshots or expected output and if kong starts certification that would be helpful in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James E.
JE
Product Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent API Monitoring"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API is an excellent API Gateway service that allows for multi-node scaling It also grants low-level access to traffic control and monitoring of inbound and outbound traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong API has been great There have been issues with support management and pricing, but these issues are minor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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AO
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One of the best gateway solution with well thought architecture and documentation."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Wide-range installation support with pre-made containers made the deployment process seamless. Support of rate limiting, third-party monitoring integrations and large community-developed plugins which can easily be configured makes it widely superior to other competitors.

Highly Recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Support for Data transformation layers for legacy apps can be a big plus. UI can feel a bit sluggish and can be improved.

Apart from that not a lot of complaints,kong is pretty solid. It took care of all my use-case, and its performance is top-tier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

11%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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