Product overview — API Management
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Kong
Portable, developer-first gateway platform: consistent routing and policy across environments when you can own gateway operations and standardization.
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether Kong is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- Hybrid/multi-cloud organizations needing consistent policy across environments
- Platform teams that can standardize a gateway pattern (ingress, auth, quotas, logging)
- Internal API platforms where developer velocity and portability matter
- Teams that want extensibility and control at the gateway layer
Who should avoid
- You want fully managed enterprise governance outcomes without running a platform
- Your org is strongly cloud-native and prefers native IAM + managed control planes
- You can’t staff upgrades, incident response, and operational ownership for gateway layer
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.