Simplify API Management.
Unlock AI Innovation.

Speed up time to market by unleashing developer
productivity, automating security, and streamlining API
management.

Trusted by 700+ customers of all sizes across all industries

Gartner names Kong a Leader

For the fourth consecutive year, Kong was named a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for API Management

The first unified API platform.
Yet modular.

Manage APIs securely across any cloud, team, gateway, protocol,
or architecture from one place.

Now available as a fully managed service.

Govern APIs

Gain real-time visibility into all your services

Secure APIs

Consistently apply fine-grained security and traffic policies to services

Build & Test APIs

Design, debug, and test APIs faster with built-in designer and automation

Why Kong

APIs run everything. Kong runs APIs.

APIs are the building blocks of modern applications, making up 80% of internet traffic. Take
control of these connections across any environment with Kong. Kong helps you stay ahead
of customer demand (and the competition) and deliver fast, reliable, secure digital
experiences.

Unleash developer productivity

Tap into developer-led innovation. Get flexibility they love in an automated environment that lets them ship fast.

Build securely anywhere

Trust your APIs and services are secure. Kong has you covered with built-in security, governance, and compliance.

Streamline API management

Cut complexity and costs. Scale fast with a future-proof platform built on the world’s most adopted API gateway.

Trusted by Enterprises

The world’s most adopted API
gateway is just the start

Our enterprise offerings extend battle-tested technology with enhanced features and 24/7
support. Plus, Professional Services offer expert guidance — and training ensures teams
have the skills to transform your organization.

Simplify and unify management

Use a single control plane to deploy and manage gateways across ingress, cloud, and K8s providers with real-time visibility into services.

Unlock federated API management

Balance agility and governance across disparate environments, teams, and tech stacks.

Automate security and ensure compliance

Stay compliant and reduce risk with built-in end-to-end security and identity for every API.

Kong Architecture Diagram

Achieve architectural flexibility

Work across any cloud, platform, and modern protocol. 

Let developers choose the right tech for the job.

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

Make APIs easier to build, operate, and reuse 
across architectures.

Build securely

Trade mind-numbing checks for automated enterprise-grade security.

Build anywhere

Cloud. On-prem. Hybrid. Fully-managed. 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

Kong's extensive ecosystem of plugins and integrations (plus the option to build your own) helps you ship feature-rich APIs faster.

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.

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
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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
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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
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57%

Reduction in operational costs

The Latest from Kong

Grow faster and more
securely with Kong

Unleash developer productivity — and your organization’s potential — with Kong’s trusted cloud native API platform and the world’s most adopted API gateway.