Comparison

Emissary-ingress 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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Emissary-ingress48
★Kong Gateway54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Emissary-ingress48 / 100low · 3%
Kong Gateway54 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Model
Emissary-ingressopen_source
Kong Gatewayopen_source
Price level
Emissary-ingressfree
Kong Gatewayfree
Transparent
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✗
Integrations
Count
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway12
Security
Disclosure policy
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Gdpr
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Pci
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Scorecard
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway7.5
Soc2
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway99.99
Status page
Emissary-ingress✓
Kong Gateway✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway1
Github stars
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway44,260
Activity
Commits last 30d
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway10
Release
Cadence days
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway42
History
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway20 items
License
Spdx
Emissary-ingress–
Kong GatewayApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Emissary-ingress–
Kong GatewayLua
Market
Availability
Emissary-ingress–
Content
Faq
Emissary-ingress3 items
Kong Gateway8 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Emissary-ingress

Open-source API management platform and access management solution.

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.

Emissary-ingress

Open source
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
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Linux
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
CLI
Emissary-ingress–
Kong Gateway✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Emissary-ingress✗
Kong Gateway✓
Self-hosted
Emissary-ingress✓
Kong Gateway✓
Hybrid
Emissary-ingress✗
Kong Gateway✓

Integrations

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

Emissary-ingress

Not documented yet.

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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