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October 22, 2024
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Kong Named Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management for Fifth Consecutive Year

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Kong was positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision

For the fifth year in a row year, we’re thrilled to announce that Kong has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management. Plus, Kong was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.

This ongoing recognition reinforces our commitment to our customers, who rely on Kong’s unified cloud API platform to deliver fast, reliable, and secure digital experiences.

What is the Gartner Magic Quadrant?

As defined by Gartner, Gartner Magic Quadrants are annually released comparisons of vendors within a market showcasing how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how they’re performing against Gartner’s market view. These are intended to give enterprise technology shoppers an unbiased assessment of competing providers. These reports come with a graphic depicting each market via a matrix evaluating vendors on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

What defines an API management solution?

The API management market is the market for software that supports all stages of an API’s life cycle: planning and design, implementation and testing, deployment and operation, and versioning and retirement. These solutions enable organizations to discover, design, develop, manage, and secure APIs.

This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document.

Read a complimentary copy of the report

Check out the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant report to get:

  • Expert analysis on the trends shaping our API world
  • Critical evaluation of platform differentiators
  • Industry benchmarks and trends

To read the full report, visit https://konghq.com/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-api.

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Kong is the foundation that enables any company to securely adopt AI and become an API-first company — speeding up time to market, creating new business opportunities, and delivering superior products and services. Kong helps more than 700 organizations around the world unleash developer productivity through a single unified cloud API platform for API gateway, AI gateway, service mesh, and ingress controller.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for API Management, 16 October 2024, Shameen Pillai, John Santoro, Nicholas Carter, Andrew Humphreys, Mark O'Neill

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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