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The End-to-End Service Control Platform for Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Organizations.
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Kong Gateway Enterprise is a service connectivity platform that provides technology teams at multi-cloud and hybrid organizations the "architectural freedom" to build APIs and services anywhere. Kong's service connectivity platform provides a flexible, technology-agnostic platform that supports any cloud, platform, protocol and architecture. Kong Enterprise supports the full lifecycle of service management, enabling users to easily design, test, secure, deploy, monitor, monetize and version their APIs. Over 250 enterprises trust Kong Enterprise to reduce time to market by bringing applications and services to market faster, as well as increase infrastructure ROI by maximizing resource efficiency through improved automation and reduced overhead.
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- Decentralize Applications and Services - Break down monoliths into services or build new applications with distributed architectures to accelerate your journey to microservices, Kubernetes and service mesh.
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Customer reviews
Samatha V.
Lightweight, High-Performance KONG Gateway for Secure Banking API Management
Reviewed on May 05, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its lightweight architecture and high performance API Gateway is best for industries like us (Banking). We use for our API management, considering risks in banking we need a secure system to connect to API's for which we use KONG Gateway.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is good, but needs full expertise to unlock full potential. Initial set up, configuration might feel complex if you have no prior experience. Additionally to unlock some advanced capabilities require license.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is used to fulfill our integration requirements in a secure way. We use it to replace oracle integration use cases.
Aakash S.
Flexible API Management with Bit of a Learning Curve
Reviewed on May 03, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Kong Gateway provides a runtime that can be managed by me on Kubernetes or Docker, or alternatively, it can be managed by Kong itself. This gives me multiple options based on specific requirements or the governance and compliance needs of different clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup can be Kubernetes-based and requires some special skills on the platform side, which means it has a bit of a learning curve before people become conversant with the interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Kong Gateway to manage APIs, centralizing API keys and policies, reducing costs related to security and observability. It allows us to modernize communication by changing record formats and handling older patterns, effectively acting as a strangler interface.
Akanksha M.
API Management made easy, plus it's Open Source toooo!!
Reviewed on Apr 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Kong Gateway for providing better visibility into APIs and upstream services. The Kong Proxy performs way better than other alternatives like NGINX Proxy. I particularly like the 'Plugin first' approach since the plugins in Kong are modular like legos, making tasks like rate limiting or blacklisting certain APIs much easier without having to write lots of code. The built-in, out-of-the-box plugins reduce latency effectively. The setup process is super easy, thanks to the right scripts and developer documentation available, making installation and setup straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support for Custom Plugins needs to be improved even further, a bit more streamlining in terms of building and developing plugins using Lua.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong Gateway gives me better visibility into APIs and upstream services, and its proxy outperforms others like NGINX. The modular plugins make tasks like rate limiting or blacklisting easy without extra code, reducing latency with built-in solutions.
Banking
High-Performance API Gateway with Strong DevOps Alignment and Evolving UI Experience!!
Reviewed on Apr 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I use Kong Gateway for streamlining microservices and better visibility. I appreciate that it offers insight into all my microservices on a single platform. I like its versatility and how it can handle a huge number of transactions per second (TPS) without needing equivalent infrastructure. Kong Gateway offers almost 50K TPS per node, which is impressive in its segment, and it's cost-effective. My team switched from APIGEE to Kong Gateway for some parts of our business due to its cost efficiency and 100% operational efficiency without the risk of vendor lock-in. The initial setup is pretty easy, especially with the new Kong Docs Portal.
What do you dislike about the product?
From my hands-on experience, Kong Gateway can feel a bit too DevOps centric for teams that would rather have more guided management through a rich GUI(KONG Manager type), since so much of the control is handled through configuration and APIs.
If you run it in DB mode, you also need to plan carefully for PostgreSQL operations and failover as part of the overall gateway design. And although Lua plugins are powerful, it’s not always easy on real projects to find people who are comfortable extending Kong at that level.
If you run it in DB mode, you also need to plan carefully for PostgreSQL operations and failover as part of the overall gateway design. And although Lua plugins are powerful, it’s not always easy on real projects to find people who are comfortable extending Kong at that level.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong Gateway addresses the core need to control, secure, and standardize how APIs are exposed, without requiring changes to the backend services themselves. It provides a consistent layer where I can apply authentication, rate limiting, transformations, and logging across APIs in a uniform way, which significantly cuts down on custom code at the application level. Because it supports declarative configuration and is designed with automation in mind, I can manage API behavior through versioned configuration files and CI/CD workflows rather than relying on manual updates. This improves governance and security while also making deployments more predictable, repeatable, and easier to scale across different environments.
Danish S.
Smooth API Management with Kong Gateway
Reviewed on Apr 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Kong Gateway because it's easy to install and set up, which speeds up our go-to-market process. I find the flexibility of Kong Gateway to be wonderful and a game changer. The initial setup was really smooth, thanks to developer.konghq.com.
What do you dislike about the product?
Key Value Maps, Share Flows, API Trace
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Kong Gateway for API management, tackling information security issues like OWASP Top 10. It's easy to install and set up, which speeds up our market readiness. Its flexibility is a game changer.