Comparison

Apigee vs Kong Gateway

On the evidence we track, Kong Gateway leads this comparison with a composite score of 54/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Apigee44
★Kong Gateway54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Apigee44 / 100low · 39%
Kong Gateway54 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Apigee–
Kong Gateway✓
Model
Kong Gatewayopen_source
Price level
Apigeeunknown
Kong Gatewayfree
Transparent
Apigee✗
Kong Gateway✗
Integrations
Count
Apigee4
Kong Gateway12
Security
Disclosure policy
Apigee–
Kong Gateway✓
Gdpr
Apigee–
Kong Gateway✓
Pci
Apigee–
Kong Gateway✓
Scorecard
Apigee–
Kong Gateway7.5
Soc2
Apigee–
Kong Gateway✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Apigee–
Kong Gateway99.99
Status page
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Apigee–
Kong Gateway1
Github stars
Apigee–
Kong Gateway44,260
Activity
Commits last 30d
Apigee–
Kong Gateway10
Release
Cadence days
Apigee–
Kong Gateway42
History
Apigee–
Kong Gateway20 items
License
Spdx
Apigee–
Kong GatewayApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Apigee–
Kong GatewayLua
Content
Faq
Apigee4 items
Kong Gateway8 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Hosting
ApigeeCloud only
Kong GatewayCloud + self-hosted
Kubernetes-native
Apigee-
Kong Gateway✓
Traffic
Rate limiting
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Request/response transformation
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Apigee-
Kong Gateway✓
Mutual TLS
Apigee-
Kong Gateway✓
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway-
gRPC support
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway-
Delivery
Developer portal
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Monetization
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
ApigeeLimited
Kong GatewayExtensive
Insight
Observability
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Apigee

A cloud service for consolidating APIs into a unified catalog, implementing security and traffic controls, and providing operational visibility through analytics and policy management.

Independently observed

Kong Gateway

Leader

Kong Gateway is a scalable API and LLM gateway platform designed for cloud-native deployments. It provides traffic management, authentication, rate limiting, request transformation, and advanced AI capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Apigee

Hybrid60-day trial

Pay-as-you-go or subscription pricing available; contact for specific rates

as of verify ↗

Kong Gateway

Leader
Open source

Open source core; Kong Konnect cloud platform offers free trial and commercial subscriptions

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Linux
Apigee✗
Kong Gateway✓
CLI
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Apigee✓
Kong Gateway✓
Self-hosted
Apigee✗
Kong Gateway✓
Hybrid
Apigee✗
Kong Gateway✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Apigee

4 total
  • Google Cloud L7 Load Balancers
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini Code Assist
  • Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Independently observed

Kong Gateway

Leader
19 total
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Azure Content Safety
  • Google Cloud Model Armor
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Llama 3
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Git
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • Llama
  • DocuSign
  • Insomnia
  • Apache Kafka
  • Redis
  • Prometheus
  • cert-manager
  • AWS Lambda
Independently observed
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