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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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Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fast, Secure and easy to use API...."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

API Gateway is a simple, secure, fast and next-generation API which provides ultra-low latency, high throuput,Dynamic scalability, radically extensible and CI/CD integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong API is great in many aspects since recently I started using and testing it couldn't find many flaws and those flaws I have found and easily configurable and managable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vincent A.
VA
Manager, Application Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Application Architect"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The agnostic configuring capability and plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Language limitations, apart from that cant pin on any downside Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
AA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Perfect gateway solution"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Ease of setup and use

Learning curve

Open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Extensibility and language support for writing new plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages
CF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Fast and simple"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I like the RESTfulness and commitment to industry best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The environment configuration on Windows is always a challenge but I'm not sure if that is something Kong can control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
CB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong: compact and light weight"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is helpful for API Sandbox implementation as it provides a compact and lightweight solution for customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The Key management and developer portal support needs improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
IH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The performance of the gateway and the ease at which you can configure routes and services - everything can be done via an API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The API marketplace in the developer portal needs more work to make it truly world class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Pretty flexible, after time it's start to be hard to maintain"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Flexibility, you can do your things with the portal or API, a lot of plugins to fit all reguirments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

after some time it's hard to maintain all your routes, it's should also logic connected to the developer portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Platform
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Hi there -- thanks for your feedback! Flexibility is one of our top product priorities, so very glad to hear that it's something you like best too. Completely understand that the routes can become complicated and hard to maintain as that's a challenge we hear frequently when lots of connections are involved. Thank you again for your review -- we're so happy to have you as a Kong customer!

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

Easy to operate and maintain.

Automation inbuilt to have effective CI/CD

Best fit for multi cloud strategy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Faster delivery of new features.

Better integration with APM products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong is stable, performant, highly configurable, well documented."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Love the pluggable architecture and API driven config. The never modes of operation such as DP/CP or DBLess are a big plus as well. There is a large community of users and it has really great documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Github issues lately pile up and have not been treated as a priority to investigate within the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Platform
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Hi there -- thanks for your review! We are very proud of our flexible configuration, so glad to hear you love it too -- along with our amazing Kong community! And thank you for surfacing the issues with Github -- we are looking into them but can always do more to solve issues that are impacting our customers. Thanks again for your feedback and thanks for using Kong!

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
IM
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong K"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Variety of resources to help you navigate various platforms to apply to your brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I haven't used it to discover any dislikes. 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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