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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
4.4 out of 5
291 Kong API Platform Reviews
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Tushar K.
TK
Platform Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Streamlining API Management with Kong"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

1. High Performance and Scalability

2. Extensibility with Plugins

3. Ease of Deployment and Management

4. Ease of Monitoring and Analytics: Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

It need to have better performance for other laguages, it it has for luma Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YR
Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Cyber)
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cloud Agnostic API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It's a cloud agnostic API Gateway. For a multi-cloud enviornment i.e. where API endpoints can be hosted in multiple cloud providers like AWS or Azure, Kong can be used without dependency on a specific cloud provider.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The Admin GUI cannot be used in the YAML config format, it's only possible if the PostGres DB is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krishna S.
KS
Senior Software Engineer
Consulting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Insomnia great tool to use"
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

I am using insomnia in my current project so have my workflow i.e kong deplyment.

I have created collection and multiple test cases in insomnia and then connect it with git to pass all the test cases and it work smoothly I realy like this functionality of insomnia.

We can easily implemen multiple test cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

kong insomnia is not very much scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jitendra C.
JC
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"KONG API MANAGEMENT"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API gateway is good and opensource tool and also it is very lightweight as compare to another API gateway. It is also easy to install and also support the multiple languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing for dislike the kong API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satyajit S.
SS
Senior Software Development Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Where Performance Matters"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy to configure services and routes and plugins in kong and several security plugins makes development handy.

Different flavours of deployment with kong like CP DP Model , Kong mesh and Kong Konnect and standalone on prem deployment.

Lightening fast routing traffic and plugin execution makes it best in performance.

Several policies with kong mesh makes the development handy.

Easy to integrate with the microservices and easy to implement custom plguins . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Creating Custom Plugins using lua ,

forces to learn new technology,

Although kong has flexibility to integrate with GO and JS ,

Still I feel the performance is not similar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vibhuti S.
VS
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"I highly recommended for scalable, robust API management, overkill for simpler needs."
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I really like Kong API Gateway's scalability, extensibility through plugins, and robust performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I dislike Kong API Gateway's steep learning curve and complex initial setup only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aakash S.
AS
Senior Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kong- the undisputed King of API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Its very light weighted, simple to integrate with various upstram application. The best feature is the out of the box plugins, i love them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

May be the lengthy process of writing customised plugin. This could be handled in a more simple way, like other gateway platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajaypal G.
AG
SDE II
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"product review"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Scalablity, flexibility, security, plugins which helps a lot in short and long term in software products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

lack of proper documentation which easily can be understood. Bit complex and difficult to learn for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erwin B.
EB
Integration Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Your APIs deserve a Kong"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Stable, powerful, easy to configure, extensible, fast and quality customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Product development removes features we're using, like vitals (fine grained metrics), developer portal, insomnia free on-premise git sync. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ivan P.
IP
Senior Software Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One of the Best API Gateway I have ever used!"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Portabie, scalable and open source with easy to use interface and implement in a microservice based architecture. We have been using it for a year without any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The Kong API documentation is quite difficult to understand and more user friendly tutorials or documentation could be helpful. 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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