Comparison

Envoy AI Gateway vs Kong AI Gateway

On the evidence we track, Kong AI Gateway leads this comparison with a composite score of 56/100. 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
Envoy AI Gateway49
Kong AI Gateway56
Score
Vioscale score
Envoy AI Gateway49 / 100low · 28%
Kong AI Gateway56 / 100low · 36%
Pricing
Free tier
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Model
Envoy AI Gatewaycommercial
Kong AI Gatewayfreemium
Price level
Envoy AI Gatewayfree
Kong AI Gatewaylow
Transparent
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Integrations
Count
Envoy AI Gateway18
Kong AI Gateway16
Adoption
Dependent repos
Envoy AI Gateway0
Kong AI Gateway
Github stars
Envoy AI Gateway1,961
Kong AI Gateway
Activity
Commits last 30d
Envoy AI Gateway65
Kong AI Gateway
Release
Cadence days
Envoy AI Gateway11
Kong AI Gateway
History
Envoy AI Gateway20 items
Kong AI Gateway
License
Spdx
Envoy AI GatewayApache-2.0
Kong AI Gateway
Language
Primary
Envoy AI GatewayGo
Kong AI Gateway
Market
Availability
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI GatewayAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Automatic failover
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Routing strategy
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-
Caching
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI GatewaySemantic
Virtual key management
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Budget spend controls
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Rate limiting
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Guardrails moderation
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-
Request cost observability
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Streaming support
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-
Deployment model
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-
Open source
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway
Pricing model
Envoy AI Gateway-
Kong AI Gateway-

What each one is

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

Envoy AI Gateway

Provides routing and traffic management between applications and generative AI services, built on the open source Envoy Gateway. Supports multiple AI provider integrations and OpenAI-compatible APIs.

Independently observed

Kong AI Gateway

Leader

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.

Envoy AI Gateway

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Kong AI Gateway

Leader
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
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Linux
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
CLI
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Self-hosted
Envoy AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Hybrid
Envoy 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 (5)
  • OpenAI
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Anthropic
  • Mistral
  • cert-manager

Envoy AI Gateway

18 total - 13 not shared
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Gemini
  • Groq
  • Together AI
  • Cohere
  • DeepInfra
  • DeepSeek
  • Hunyuan
  • Tencent LLM Knowledge Engine
  • SambaNova
  • Grok
  • OIDC
Independently observed

Kong AI Gateway

Leader
24 total - 19 not shared
  • GCP Gemini
  • Azure AI
  • Databricks
  • Huggingface
  • Llama
  • AWS Bedrock Guardrails
  • Azure Content Safety
  • Google Cloud Model Armor
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Git
  • 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.