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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
4.4 out of 5
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Verified User in Education Management
UE
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong api"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

User friendly good ui. Good structure and covers good amount of use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Limiting of the concurrent requests. Security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nayan S.
NS
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong - cost-effective API gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

In addition to authenticating requests and enforcing security standards, the API Gateway may also load balance across backend services. In this way, Kong is a cost-effective solution. The system comes with hundreds of built-in plugins, but new plugins may also be written to meet specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

To create a custom plugin, Lua knowledge is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
EI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Nice product and great support"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Quick process installation and configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Lack of a user interface for documentation of developer portal API exposure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

speed, performance, plugin configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Logging and Monitoring of gateway,soap to rest conversion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy setup and great customer support!"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Ease of configuration

Support is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

It gets a bit tedious at first to grasp documentation but after that, its easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Platform

Hi there -- thanks for leaving your feedback and we're so happy to hear you've had a good experience with our support team! Completely understand that documentation is not the most fun to wade through, but glad it's been easy after that. Thanks again for your review and for being a Kong user!

HP
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I find it something of great help to simplify my application development enormously"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The security, confidence and practicality that Kong gives me when managing my APIs in a simple and efficient way is a great point in its favor that this application has, its interface has a fairly intuitive design which allows me to navigate through everything the system without major problem, and the fact that it is also a responsive application is of great help to me to access the information from my mobile phone without major problems, the main dashboard shows me in a fairly summarized way all the data I need to perform my activities in a much simpler and more efficient way, in terms of performance the application is quite good, its customer service team provides a fairly complete service and in a fairly fast way, solving in a short period of time any possible error that could be presented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Being objective, there is nothing I can complain about Kong, it seems to me that everything works perfectly and without any inconvenience, now, what one I would suggest is that they change the interface design for one a little more modern, which I think could add more functionality to the entire application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MS
Network Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong manages and organizes my activities and operations."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is a company that self-manages the progress and possibilities of the result for other companies, has a well-consolidated and justified API design, has tools for the protection of multiple threats and malicious viruses for our company, we have a communications panel, Prudent access control and formidable information traffic control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

We do not have system samples for long periods of time to test the software, nor less free versions that do not make your strategy system accessible to the client, it is considered that more information would be missing from the software and, therefore, would generate more confidence, and finally it has a slow interface but despite this well formulated and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DS
SRE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"What we needed in a tool but with a little more."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

AWS integration with many cloud tools... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The setup was a bit difficult at times.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants
AR
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great product, fantastic support"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Opensource, easy to setup and use and is full of features to meet our use cases and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Still to early to tell for us, but the go-plugin server can be a pain to deploy. Good strides have been made to make it easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

kalindi p.
KP
Customer Success Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Highly flexible & de-facto gateway solution for enterprise-grade micro-services"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The plugins really improve the overall reusability of a lot of logic of the API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong plugins are lua based. I'd be much more happier if I was able to code those in as lightweight JS lambda functions 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

$$$$$
Kong API Platform