Comparison

Kong AI Gateway vs One API

No leader: the top candidate Kong AI Gateway has only 0.34 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.

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Kong AI Gateway53
One API46
Score
vioscaleAI score
Kong AI Gateway53 / 100low · 34%
One API46 / 100medium · 54%
Pricing
Free tier
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Model
Kong AI Gatewayfreemium
One APIcommercial
Price level
Kong AI Gatewaylow
One APIfree
Transparent
Kong AI Gateway✗
One API–
Integrations
Count
Kong AI Gateway11
One API12
Adoption
Dependent repos
Kong AI Gateway–
One API0
Github stars
Kong AI Gateway–
One API37,155
Activity
Commits last 30d
Kong AI Gateway–
One API0
Release
Cadence days
Kong AI Gateway–
One API19
History
Kong AI Gateway–
One API20 items
License
Spdx
Kong AI Gateway–
One APIMIT
Language
Primary
Kong AI Gateway–
One APIJavaScript
Market
Availability
Kong AI GatewayAvailable worldwide
One API–
Content
Faq
Kong AI Gateway6 items
One API6 items

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Automatic failover
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Routing strategy
Kong AI GatewayCustom
One APILoad based
Caching
Kong AI GatewaySemantic
One API-
Virtual key management
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Budget spend controls
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Rate limiting
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Guardrails moderation
Kong AI GatewayBuilt in
One API-
Request cost observability
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Streaming support
Kong AI Gateway-
One API✓
Deployment model
Kong AI GatewaySelf hosted
One APISelf hosted
Open source
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Pricing model
Kong AI GatewayOpen source self host
One APIOpen source self host

What each one is

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

Kong AI Gateway

A cloud-native gateway platform that manages traffic between applications and large language model providers, offering multi-provider routing with automatic failover, semantic caching, cost visibility, compliance guardrails, and audit logging—without requiring changes to application code.

Independently observed

One API

An open-source system for managing and redistributing API access across multiple large language model providers—including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and others—through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Deploys as a self-contained binary or Docker container.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Kong AI Gateway

HybridFree tier
as of verify ↗

One API

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
Linux
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✗
CLI
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✗
Self-hosted
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✓
On-premise
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✗
Hybrid
Kong AI Gateway✓
One API✗

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • OpenAI
  • Google Gemini

Kong AI Gateway

28 total - 26 not shared
  • Anthropic
  • 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
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • +2 more
Independently observed

One API

26 total - 24 not shared
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Anthropic Claude
  • DeepSeek
  • ByteDance Douyin
  • ChatGLM
  • Baidu ERNIE Bot
  • iFLYTEK Spark
  • Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen
  • 360 Brain
  • Tencent Hunyuan
  • Cloudflare Gateway
  • Alibaba Qwen
  • Tencent Yuan
  • Baidu Wenxin
  • Byte Doubao
  • 360 AI Brain
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Doubao
  • Ernie
  • Spark
  • Qwen
  • 360 Smart Brain
  • Hunyuan
Independently observed
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