Take the next step in building your API-first business

Use the API gateway your dev teams love with the scale and security your

enterprise needs

Unlock greater security, visibility, and support for your increasingly complex architecture with Kong's Enterprise solutions. Thrive in an API-first environment with a platform that scales with your needs, ignites innovation, and simplifies API governance. Because less time worrying over service security, reliability, and maintenance means more time building the next big thing.

Level up with an enterprise solution

Kong Gateway
for Open Source

Kong Gateway
for Kong Enterprise

Kong Gateway
for Kong Konnect

Fast, Lightweight, Cloud-Native

End-to-End Automation

Kubernetes Native

Gateway Mocking

Plugin Ordering

Federated API Management

Workspaces provide some isolation

Control Planes provide strong isolation

Data plane Resilience

Consumer Groups

API Governance

Kong Gateway
for Open Source

Kong Gateway
for Kong Enterprise

Kong Gateway
for Kong Konnect

OpenTelemetry

Developer Portal

Saas

Service Hub

Saas

API Analytics

Saas

Data Retention Period for Observability

Up to 1 year

Admin GUI

Self-managed Kong Manager

SaaS Runtime Manager

Gateway Event Hooks

Audit Logging

Operational Efficiency

Kong Gateway
for Open Source

Kong Gateway
for Kong Enterprise

Kong Gateway
for Kong Konnect

Hosted control plane

self-managed

self-manage

SaaS

Hosted Database

self-manage

self-manage

SaaS

SLA on Gateway control plane and database

self-manage

self-manage

99.9% Uptime SLA

Effortless Upgrades

Traffic Management and Transformations

Kong Gateway
for Open Source

Kong Gateway
for Kong Enterprise

Kong Gateway
for Kong Konnect

Basic Traffic Control Plugins

Simple Data Transformations

GraphQL

Kafka Integrations

Multi-protocol Plugin Support

Request Validation

Advanced Data Transformation

Advanced Rate Limiting

Routing Engine

Security and Compliance

Kong Gateway
for Open Source

Kong Gateway
for Kong Enterprise

Kong Gateway
for Kong Konnect

Basic Authentication

Advanced Authentication

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Basic Authorization (Bot Detection, CORS controls, ACLs)

Advanced Authorization (OPA)

OOTB integration with 3rd party secret management tools

FIPS 140-2 Compliant Data Planes

Software Bill of Materials

Enterprise Support and Services

Kong Gateway
for Open Source

Kong Gateway
for Kong Enterprise

Kong Gateway
for Kong Konnect

Enterprise support

Customer Success Packages - Add-on

Supporting customers on their OSS to enterprise journey

Gartner® names Kong a Leader for the 6th Year in a Row

Kong named a Magic Quadrant™ Leader for API Management, plus positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.

Take your API governance to the next level with an enterprise solution

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