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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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Siddhant s.
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Software engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Pioneering Product on Track to Become Market Leader"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

1. Huge range of plugins which are useful.

2. Low latetency

3. Easy to setup.

4.Easy to use.

5. Easy to integrate with other platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

1. Debveloper portal should be more mature.

2. Kong Documentation should be imroved and more detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong Api Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Many plugins, fast, hybrid mode for HA, Kong Manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Number of API service impact pricing license Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hamed G.
HG
devops engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"We use kong as our api gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The plugins and the flexibility it has, it can help upgrade productivity and save dev time a lot! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The deprications of it can sometimes be annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
TC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Informative session."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy to implement and understand for development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing to complain about Kong API Gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Civil Engineering
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"fine product"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

good security, scalability, performance, centralized management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

typical modern subscription-based licensing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arun G.
AG
Site Reliability Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"What a fantastic scalable stable gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is a robust and stable tool that handles load without latency issues, as it is built on top of Nginx. It is also highly feature-oriented, offering thousands of plugins for various use cases. Recently it started offering saas based solution which we are testing now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

As of now we couldnt fond any issues with product. Its support is the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krasimir V.
KV
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong API Gateway experience so far"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The way it works and how routing is easily managed by the api. I am using the Kong API Gateway as an Ingress and a stand-alone gateway in which both setups are easy to integrate either with helm, manifests, standalone or with etcd datastore. I am not using support but usually find most of the things I need in the docs or forums.

The kong API and Ingress is something that I use and trust every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

When I started using Kong API the documentation was pretty hard to understand, I think that it was reworked and now it's a bit easier to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AB
Software Engineering
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Performance and Scaleability"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It can handle large number of Transactions per second which makes it suitable for high throughput requirement applications.

Since it's built on nginx it can be disturbed achieving horizontal scaling is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Even though it's powerful, Kong can be complex for initial setup specially for users who lack infra knowledge or API gateways knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RR
Project Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The versatility of Kong Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong Gateway is compatible with most APIs created by vendors with the use of MTLS. It ensures safety of data while allowing the consistent flow of connectivity between servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

As of the moment, nothing to mention on this part as Kong API is working for us perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit T.
ST
Product Verification Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Manual API testing Tool"
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

Simple to use for the Fresher and learn about Rest APIs

Some times Postman is confusing while using for Pre Test and Tests No extra steps or confusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

We cannot create Automation suite or write tests like we can do it on Postman.

Websocket support is not available.

Mocking is also not allowed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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