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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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SARVESH P.
SP
Student
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Reliable API connection"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

First of all, there is an Open Source community in Kong and I like Open Source Software. It is very easy to manage and deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I think it is a bit overpriced but overall a good product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alok Punj S.
AS
Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong is the meta of API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy installation and management on any platform.

Highly scalable and flexible to one's needs.

Great performance and support as compared to other alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Pricing plans may not be cost-effective for small scale businesses and startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jithin X.
JX
Senior DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong: Fast and Reliable API Gateway solution."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API-Gateway is a very easy-to-use product and its plugin architecture makes it easy to create custom plug-ins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong currently only supports Lua and Go programming languages, but it would be better to add more languages like Python, Java etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pramodh Y.
PY
Cloud Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong gateway one stop for all your API Management"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The best part of kong gateway is the centralised management of all the API and it can be managed on multiple clouds and onprem. The best part is the hybrid deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Just started exploring. Will have to get there still. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prince Singh Y.
PY
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong API Gateway : Open Source API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It's production is design for complex and hybrid infrastructure of multi-cloud level. It's too helpful and famous , has a huge community network . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

It's way too more expensive in comparison to an open source api gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eduardo R.
ER
Principal Chief Executive Officer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent product, both community or enterprise can help any company in their API strategies"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The great flexibility of the solution allows it to address almost all use cases of an api strategy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

It is not so versatile to work with XML in the api exposure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjay S.
SS
Software engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"King Kong Of the Gateway World"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The way kong manages endpoints with REST API without downtime. We can easily add new endpoints and plugin rules.

Develop plugins using custom languages in your favourite language. Mine is Javascript Kdk plugin. I developed in nodejs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Plugin testing is very difficult. And Documentation is very less info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OLUWATOBI ADETUNJI A.
OA
IT Infrastructure Technician
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A scalable, Fast API Solution with Huge performance Metric"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It is simple to set up on several platforms. It can also be readily deployed from a container and integrates well with third-party monitoring solutions. Above all, I enjoy the plugin-based approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

In general, I have few criticisms; nevertheless, I would want more complete and comprehensive documentation. This should be improved upon so that solutions to issues can be easy to resolve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HJ
Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong API user Experience"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong has a great UI experience and the availability of numerous plugins and the easy accessibility to different platforms makes it more functional as compared to other platfor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There was nothing to dislike as such, the product serves its purpose to a great extent and minor inconveniences can be ignored because of the overall package it provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luiz Henrique d.
LD
Software Engineering Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong is a mature stack for api management, stable, resilient and scalable."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is resilient and has big community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong architecture is like a monolithic system, it's not helpful in big environment 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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