From $25Free plan
Platform and infrastructure teams running APIs for customers or many internal teams that need central auth, rate limiting, a developer portal and analytics in production.
Quick overview
- Pricing
- Open-source gateway free; Konnect Plus from $25/month plus usage
- Plans
- Kong Konnect API Management Plus: from $25/month plus usage, billed monthly; 1M API requests/month included then $200/month per additional 1M; 1 developer portal included (extra $200/month, 2 max); 2 published APIs included then $20/month each for the first 10, $10 after; serverless control planes $25/month each (up to 5), Dedicated Cloud Gateway control plane $500/month, hybrid control planes $200/month each (up to 2). 30-day trial, no card. Enterprise: custom, billed annually. Kong Gateway open source (Apache-2.0) is free but its latest release (3.9.4) trails Kong Gateway Enterprise (3.16).
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Key features
- Plugin-based API gateway for routing, load balancing and request validation
- Authentication: key auth, JWT, OAuth 2.0, LDAP; OIDC, mTLS and SAML on enterprise tiers
- Rate limiting and traffic control across REST, gRPC, GraphQL and WebSockets
- Konnect hosted control plane with developer portal and analytics
- Kubernetes Ingress Controller and an AI Gateway for LLM traffic
Pros
- Proven plugin-based gateway with broad auth options
- Konnect provides a developer portal and analytics out of the box
- Usage-based Plus pricing lets small programs start cheaply
- Pairs with Insomnia for design and testing
Cons
- Usage pricing (requests, portals, APIs, control planes) is harder to forecast
- Open-source release line trails the enterprise version
- Running a gateway is real operational work
- Not a testing or documentation tool
Sarah Chen