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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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291 Kong API Platform Reviews

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291 Kong API Platform Reviews
4.4 out of 5
291 Kong API Platform Reviews
4.4 out of 5
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Aman A.
AA
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazing API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It allow us to integrate with various IDP integration using azure, okta , aws cognito and many more.

Provide amazing functionalities of plugin and we can also create custom plugin by building lua code.

Provide developer protal functionalities for the developer to onborad api to show them to the outer World.

Good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Documentation is not proper like we debugging takes a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshul A.
AA
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Creating a Product and Establishing It as a Future Market Leader"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

High Performance and Scalability

Plugin Architecture

Security Features

Service Mesh Compatibility

There are lot of plugins which helps to transaform the data

Ease of use and setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The documentation of kong must be in details

Debugging and Troubleshooting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham G.
SG
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing technology solving real world problems"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy to use interface and implement in a microservice based architecture. I have been using it for a few months and I am able to appreciate the vast amount of features it provides to ease the entire software development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

While there aren't many things I dislike about the Kong API Gateway, the documentation, migration and upgrades are a few pain points Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VJ
Technology Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Futuristic API gateway - Kong"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Ease of deployment and free offering to create and test our services really helps anyone starting their APIM journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong does not provide a debugger like other API management tools which can be a problem in some situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JO
sytem administrator
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One of the Best API Gateway I have ever used!"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The flexibility and expansion of Kong API Gateway are among its most notable qualities, which I find particularly valuable. Kong has a feature-rich feature set that includes a large selection of plugins that may be easily integrated to customize the gateway to meet particular requirements. With our microservices design, this flexibility has been beneficial, enabling us to easily handle a variety of requirements including rate restriction, logging, and authentication. Another significant feature of Kong that guarantees it will always be a dependable and effective answer to our changing requirements is its capacity to grow horizontally with our API traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Although Kong API Gateway has shown to be an effective solution for our purposes in managing APIs, there are a few areas that might be improved to better the user experience as a whole. One thing to consider is the learning curve involved in configuring and setting up Kong, particularly for users who are not too familiar with microservices architectures or API gateways. Streamlining the onboarding process with more user-friendly tutorials or documentation could be beneficial.

Furthermore, while though Kong's community support is vibrant and beneficial, there have been times when it has taken longer than expected to find certain answers for particular use cases. To remedy this issue, more documentation and a wider range of community-contributed materials could be very helpful. It's crucial to remember that, in our opinion, Kong's advantages greatly exceed these tiny drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ritik  S.
RS
Associate Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"About to be Market leader Product."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

1.Ease of use and setup.

2.Low latency

3.Useful Plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The developer portal needs to be more matured as it is in starting phase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swathi A.
SA
Zuno Community Captain
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"high-performance and low-resource REST API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

During my recent project involving API gateway implementation, I had the opportunity to explore and utilize the various deployment options provided by Kong Gateway. I found these options to be thoroughly documented and well-supported by Kong. Throughout the implementation process, I received excellent support from the Kong team, which greatly contributed to the success of the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

While evaluating Kong Gateway, I observed that certain features, such as the built-in management and developer portals, may not be as robust as alternative solutions. However, I was particularly impressed by the strength of the configuration management tools provided by Kong. These tools enabled efficient and effective management of configurations, enhancing the overall functionality of the API gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit G.
AG
Machine Learning Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Fast reliable and flexible.."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I love using the Kong API gateway because it allows to make secure connections. It has rich plugin ecosystem and offers a wide range of plugins for authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Limited GUI interface though not a deal breaker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANISH P.
AP
Senior API Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Overall okay satisfied"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy to use and manage.

Api can be setup easily

Fast Api in case of any pass through Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Should have more features like transformation as in integration field only having gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rakesh K.
RK
Technology Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great tool and Market leader"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

1.Ease of setup

2. lots of plugin functionality

3. Low latency

4.multiple deploying stragies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Thier documentation regarding things needs to be more detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

11%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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