Comparison

Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Kong AI Gateway

On the evidence we track, Cloudflare AI Gateway leads this comparison with a composite score of 81/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Cloudflare AI Gateway81
Kong AI Gateway56
Score
Vioscale score
Cloudflare AI Gateway81 / 100low · 37%
Kong AI Gateway56 / 100low · 36%
Pricing
Free tier
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Model
Cloudflare AI Gatewayfreemium
Kong AI Gatewayfreemium
Price level
Cloudflare AI Gatewaylow
Kong AI Gatewaylow
Starting price
Cloudflare AI Gateway$0.05
Kong AI Gateway
Transparent
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Integrations
Count
Cloudflare AI Gateway8
Kong AI Gateway16
Security
Gdpr
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Market
Availability
Cloudflare AI GatewayAvailable worldwide
Kong AI GatewayAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Automatic failover
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Routing strategy
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-
Caching
Cloudflare AI GatewayExact
Kong AI GatewaySemantic
Virtual key management
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Budget spend controls
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Rate limiting
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Guardrails moderation
Cloudflare AI GatewayBuilt in
Kong AI Gateway-
Request cost observability
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Streaming support
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-
Deployment model
Cloudflare AI GatewayManaged SaaS
Kong AI Gateway-
Open source
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Pricing model
Cloudflare AI GatewayUsage based saas
Kong AI Gateway-

What each one is

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

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Leader

A platform providing visibility into AI API usage through analytics and logging, with controls for caching, rate limiting, and request management across multiple AI providers.

Independently observed

Kong AI Gateway

Kong AI Gateway is a control platform that routes and governs all AI-related traffic—including language model requests, agent-to-agent communication, and model context protocol interactions—with unified security, monitoring, and compliance enforcement across an organization's AI infrastructure.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Leader
from $0.05/million requestsHybridFree tier

Free core features; usage-based pricing for requests on paid plans. Inference costs passed through at provider rates with no markup.

  • FreeFree
    • Dashboard analytics
    • Caching
    • Rate limiting
    • Request retries
    • Model fallback
    • +1 more
  • Workers Paid$0.05 per million requests after 10M/month included
    • All free features
    • 10M logs per gateway
    • Logpush
    • DLP with full profiles (if Zero Trust included)
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Kong AI Gateway

HybridFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Linux
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
CLI
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Self-hosted
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Hybrid
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Leader
10 total - 8 not shared
  • Workers AI
  • Vectorize
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Third-party LLM models
  • Google Gemini
  • Replicate
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Agent Memory
Independently observed

Kong AI Gateway

24 total - 22 not shared
  • AWS Bedrock
  • GCP Gemini
  • Azure AI
  • Databricks
  • Mistral
  • Huggingface
  • Llama
  • AWS Bedrock Guardrails
  • Azure Content Safety
  • Google Cloud Model Armor
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Git
  • CertManager
  • Google Cloud Gemini
  • Hugging Face
  • Docusign
  • Kafka
  • AWS Kinesis
  • Google Pub/Sub
  • RabbitMQ
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.