Kong Alternatives

Apps similar to Kong include Orbital API, which is open source with a free version. Other options are ApiOpenStudio, KrakenD, Apache APISIX and Tyk. You're spoiled for choice with API Clients like Kong: we list more than 25 alternatives for self-hosting, Linux, Windows, Mac and the web.

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  1. Orbital API icon
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    Orbital automates integration between data sources (APIs, Databases, Queues and Functions). BFF's, API Composition and ETL pipelines that adapt as your specs change.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  2. ApiOpenStudio icon
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    Api Open Studio allows you to quickly create and manage APIs with full business and processing logic and user management, using low-code. As a result, you can save important time and money by dedicating your resources on other tasks, while at the same time maintaining the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  3. KrakenD icon
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    KrakenD emerges as a premier API Gateway, designed for unmatched efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. As a high-performance solution, it acts as a Backend For Frontend (BFF), sitting between clients (frontend) and source servers (backends).

    12 KrakenD alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Rackspace
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Docker
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Azure DevOps
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  4. Apache APISIX icon
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    Apache APISIX is an open-source cloud-native API gateway with dynamic, real-time and high-performance features, based on the NGINX library and etcd.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Tyk icon
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    Open source API management platform featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. Available in 3 editions: cloud, on-prem, or hybrid.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Ambassador is an open source, Kubernetes-native microservices API gateway built on the Envoy Proxy. Ambassador is built from the ground up to support multiple, independent teams that need to rapidly publish, monitor, and update services for end users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
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  7. Istio icon
     3 likes

    Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform...

    4 Istio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. Apiman icon
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    apiman is an open source API management layer that streamlines repetitive tasks often required when providing an API, such as implementing security, throttling and billing.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  9. WSO2 API Manager is a complete solution for designing and publishing APIs, creating and managing a developer community, and for securing and routing API traffic in a scalable way.

    29 WSO2 API Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. OBEY API Gateway is an open-source (MIT), self-hosted AI gateway that gives you a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of all your LLM providers. Just change your OPENAI_API_BASE to point at the gateway with no application code changes and gain automatic failover...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. Apigee icon
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    Apigee is a free tools platform for developers and API providers to debug, test, protect and get analytics on APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Cilium icon
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    A microservices-based application is split into small independent services that communicate with each other via APIs using lightweight protocols like HTTP, gRPC, Kafka and more. However, existing Linux network security mechanisms (e.g.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
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