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The cloud-native API gateway and service connectivity platform.
Kong is a cloud-native API gateway and service connectivity platform that helps organizations manage, secure, and observe APIs and microservices. Its high-performance, open-source gateway sits in front of services to handle routing, authentication, rate limiting, and traffic control, extended by a rich plugin ecosystem, while Kong Konnect adds a managed control plane, API management, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities. Platform and engineering teams use Kong to standardize and scale API infrastructure. Kong offers a free open-source gateway plus usage-based Konnect plans and custom enterprise pricing.
Pricing Model
FREEMIUM
Starting Price
$0/mo
Free Options
Free version, Free trial
Free Kong Gateway
Usage-based managed platform
For large organizations
| Feature | Open Source | Konnect Plus Popular | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| High-performance gateway | — | — | |
| Routing & load balancing | — | — | |
| Core plugins | — | — | |
| Self-host anywhere | — | — | |
| Managed control plane | — | — | |
| API management | — | — | |
| Developer portal | — | — | |
| Analytics | — | — | |
| Service mesh & AI gateway | — | — | |
| Advanced security & RBAC | — | — | |
| On-premise option | — | — | |
| Premium support & SLA | — | — |
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
GlobalHIPAA
HealthcarePCI DSS
FinanceCCPA
PrivacyFedRAMP
GovernmentCSA STAR
CloudDeployment & Data
Data Residency Options
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