There is no
AI
without APIs.
And there is no API excellence without the API Platform. Build yours with Kong.
Kong powers the world's best businesses and most disruptive technologies.
Drive AI adoption and empower platform builders with Kong Konnect
Manage API gateways, AI gateways, ingress, and service meshes securely from one place.
Drive efficiencies across every team that touches your APIs
Build the API Platform your business needs to ship products faster, unlock AI innovation, and drive greater developer efficiency.
Build APIs
Design, build, test, and expose everything from synchronous APIs to event APIs and AI APIs.
Run APIs
Ensure that every API transaction is secure, reliable, and performant.
Discover APIs
Publish APIs for self-service consumer discovery, and internally catalog every API and service for platform governance.
Govern APIs
Manage and govern your APIs, services, API infrastructure, and all business-wide connectivity.
Why Kong?
Build an API platform for today’s — and tomorrow’s — API needs
Future-proof your API platform and turn APIs into strategic business assets that drive more innovation, faster development, new revenue, differentiated experiences, and rapid modernization.
Innovate continuously
Writer launched their AI studio to help deliver generative AI for enterprises, all protected and made reliable by the Kong-powered Writer APIs.
Ship APIs and products faster
Verifone decreased time to market 20x by consolidating 20 regional payment systems into a single global system, with all API traffic managed and secured by Kong.
Turn APIs into revenue — not cost — centers
Goldman Sachs leverages their API developer portal and public APIs as a distribution channel, driving new business and new revenue.
Build differentiated customer experiences
Michael’s is building a unified commerce platform to power industry-leading in-store, mobile, and desktop experiences, as well as custom interactions across every channel.
Modernize your infrastructure with APIOps
Siemens chose Kong to break down their monolith and now ships APIs and products to market faster on top of federated API management, APIOps automation, GitOps, and Kubernetes.
Improve the developer experience
Rabobank migrated 2000+ APIs owned by 250+ teams onto a self-service, distributed API Platform, increasing deployment velocity by 10x and improving developer satisfaction.
Future-proof and enterprise-tested
Work with the world’s best API people, process, and platform
When you choose Kong, you choose the world’s most adopted, battle-tested API platform. Pair this with great documentation and training, 24/7 support, and the most expertised Professional Services team in the API space, and you’ll have a world-class API Platform in no time.
Federate API management across different teams, services, and runtimes
Use a single governance and management layer to spin up and manage API gateway, ingress controller, and service mesh deployments
Automate your entire API operation with APIOps
Build and manage your API infrastructure as code with our Management API, decK declarative CLI tool, and/or Kong Kubernetes Operator for seamless, CI/CD-ready APIOps.
Unify API, AI, and event streaming governance
Use one API platform to build, run, discover, and govern everything from REST, AI, to event APIs.
Govern everything from API design to API deprecation
Centrally govern every step of the build, run, and discover phases of the API lifecycle — all automated as a part of your CI/CD pipelines.
Make developers happier with a world-class API developer platform
Build your API developer platform on top of Konnect, the “developer platform in a box” that comes with self-serve API infrastructure, API analytics, API cataloging, and automated service discovery and inventory.
More speed. More scale. More value.
More reasons to go with Kong. But don't take our word for it. See what people are saying on G2 and Gartner Peer Insights.
G2 customer review
“Amazing & lightning fast API gateway. It's lightweight, easy to install and configure, and super fast.”
Gartner Peer Insights™
“Kong Konnect is a really powerful platform that any of organization of any size can use. I like its high performance, that it's scalable and easy to use.”
Built for Developers
Work faster with the tech developers love
Kong gives developers the freedom to be wildly successful without compromising on security or governance.
Build smarter
Automate the entire API lifecycle as a part of your CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC strategies.
Build securely
Shift API security left and right through automated API security checkpoints in your CI/CD pipeline.
Build anywhere
Cloud. On-prem. Hybrid. Kong lets you build applications where they operate best.
Build together
Kong helps millions build amazing things. And our community keeps the innovation going.
400B+
API calls a day
340M+
Downloads
74K+
GitHub stars
160K+
Community members
Plugins And Integration
Work smarter with hundreds of plugins and integrations
Customize Kong to fit your evolving needs with our extensive ecosystem of plugins and integrations (plus the option to build your own) and ship better APIs, faster.
Customers
Enabling API innovation
across industries
Builders and businesses rely on Kong to ignite innovation and drive growth, creating extraordinary digital experiences faster, more efficiently, and more securely.
At Rabobank we don't just create APIs -- we create magic and Kong has enabled us to create that magic in a much faster, smoother and more reliable way. Our acumen for financial services and the state of the art technology from Kong make for an amazing combination and it has allowed us and continues to enable us to be very successful. Simple, yet effective, light weight, yet robust… that and more, is what Kong means for our engineering API teams.
Stefan Zavoianu
Senior Product Owner API Management | Platform & Infra
10x
Faster deployments
From day one, it’s really felt like we were partners, not customers ... We were able to create more than 450 new digital services within just six months ...
Colin Schaub
Lead API Engineer
65x
Faster performance
[Kong] lets the team work much faster and more efficiently, to deliver quicker results to the broader organization.
Claudio Spadaccini
Head of Integration
20%
Faster time-to-market speed
The scalability and agility that Kong provides our bank is best in class . . .
Jayakumar Ganesan
Head of Service, Digital Platforms
57%
Reduction in operational costs
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Unleash developer productivity — and your organization’s potential — with Kong’s trusted cloud native API platform and the world’s most adopted API gateway.