Comparison

Envoy Gateway vs KrakenD

No leader: the top candidate Envoy Gateway has only 0.33 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Envoy Gateway60
KrakenD52
Score
Vioscale score
Envoy Gateway60 / 100low · 33%
KrakenD52 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Model
Envoy Gatewaycommercial
KrakenDcommercial
Price level
Envoy Gatewayfree
KrakenDlow
Transparent
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Integrations
Count
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD13
Reliability
Status page
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Adoption
Dependent repos
Envoy Gateway0
KrakenD0
Github stars
Envoy Gateway2,989
KrakenD2,668
Activity
Commits last 30d
Envoy Gateway100
KrakenD9
Release
Cadence days
Envoy Gateway6
KrakenD24
History
Envoy Gateway20 items
KrakenD20 items
License
Spdx
Envoy GatewayApache-2.0
KrakenDApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Envoy GatewayGo
KrakenDGo
Market
Availability
Envoy Gateway

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Hosting
Envoy GatewaySelf-hosted only
KrakenDCloud + self-hosted
Kubernetes-native
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD-
Traffic
Rate limiting
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Request/response transformation
Envoy Gateway-
KrakenD
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Mutual TLS
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Envoy Gateway-
KrakenD
gRPC support
Envoy Gateway-
KrakenD
Delivery
Developer portal
Envoy Gateway-
KrakenD
Monetization
Envoy Gateway-
KrakenD
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Envoy Gateway-
KrakenDLimited
Insight
Observability
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD

What each one is

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

Envoy Gateway

Open-source gateway providing traffic management, security controls, and observability for Kubernetes applications following the Gateway API specification. Can be deployed either standalone or as part of a Kubernetes cluster.

Independently observed

KrakenD

KrakenD is an open-source API gateway offering both a free community edition and a commercial enterprise version. It provides API aggregation, request/response transformation, traffic management, and security features for microservices and AI workload routing.

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 Gateway

Open source
as of verify ↗

KrakenD

HybridFree tier

Free Community Edition; Enterprise Edition available by quote

  • Community EditionFree
  • Enterprise EditionContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
CLI
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Self-hosted
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD
Hybrid
Envoy Gateway
KrakenD

Integrations

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

Envoy Gateway

Not documented yet.

KrakenD

13 total
  • REST APIs
  • RabbitMQ
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Kafka
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • SOAP
  • Lambda
  • NATS
  • OpenAI
  • Moesif
  • Google Analytics
Independently observed

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