# Kong AI Gateway vs One API

| Attribute | Kong AI Gateway | One API |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 53.1 (34% (low)) | 46.2 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 37,155 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Llm Gateways.","source":"https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway","question":"What is Kong AI Gateway?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kong AI Gateway offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway","question":"Is Kong AI Gateway free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kong AI Gateway supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway","question":"What platforms does Kong AI Gateway support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Kong AI Gateway can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway","question":"Can Kong AI Gateway be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 24 integrations for Kong AI Gateway, including OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, GCP Gemini, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral and Huggingface, plus 16 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway","question":"What does Kong AI Gateway integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Kong AI Gateway. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Kong AI Gateway not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/eu-ai-act-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Kong AI Gateway have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Llm Gateways.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is One API?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"One API is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is One API free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"One API supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does One API support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. One API can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can One API be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for One API, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, ByteDance Douyin, ChatGLM, Baidu ERNIE Bot and iFLYTEK Spark, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What does One API integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. One API is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api","question":"Is One API open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"caching":"semantic","open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","rate_limiting":true,"deployment_model":"self-hosted","routing_strategy":"custom","architecture_model":"open_source_proxy","automatic_failover":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"guardrails_moderation":"built-in","openai_compatible_api":true,"virtual_key_management":true,"request_cost_observability":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"pii_redaction_and_data_masking_in_flight":true,"custom_rate_limiting_by_user_or_tenant_id":true,"auto_fallback_routing_on_rate_limit_or_downtime":true,"organization_wide_cost_tracking_and_chargebacks":true,"semantic_caching_for_repeat_queries_and_cost_savings":true}` | `{"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","rate_limiting":true,"deployment_model":"self-hosted","routing_strategy":"load-based","streaming_support":true,"automatic_failover":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"openai_compatible_api":true,"virtual_key_management":true,"request_cost_observability":true}` |
| integrations.count | 11 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"GCP Gemini"},{"name":"Azure AI"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Huggingface"},{"name":"Llama"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock Guardrails"},{"name":"Azure Content Safety"},{"name":"Google Cloud Model Armor"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"CertManager"},{"name":"Google Cloud Gemini"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Docusign"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"AWS Kinesis"},{"name":"Google Pub/Sub"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis","category":"messaging"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Google Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure AI","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic Claude"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"DeepSeek"},{"name":"ByteDance Douyin"},{"name":"ChatGLM"},{"name":"Baidu ERNIE Bot"},{"name":"iFLYTEK Spark"},{"name":"Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen"},{"name":"360 Brain"},{"name":"Tencent Hunyuan"},{"name":"Cloudflare Gateway"},{"name":"Alibaba Qwen","native":true},{"name":"Tencent Yuan","native":true},{"name":"Baidu Wenxin","native":true},{"name":"Byte Doubao","native":true},{"name":"360 AI Brain","native":true},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Doubao","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Ernie","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Spark","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Qwen","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"360 Smart Brain","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Hunyuan","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | - | JavaScript |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T13:45:38.191Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T09:24:50.525Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 19 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.10","date":"2025-02-02T12:29:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.9","date":"2024-12-22T10:26:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.8","date":"2024-08-06T15:54:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.7","date":"2024-06-25T14:59:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.6","date":"2024-05-27T17:50:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.5","date":"2024-04-19T16:41:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.4","date":"2024-03-30T02:50:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.3","date":"2024-03-24T15:45:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.2","date":"2024-03-15T16:02:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.1","date":"2024-03-10T11:53:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.0","date":"2024-03-01T16:03:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.11","date":"2024-01-14T06:10:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.10","date":"2023-12-20T14:01:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.9","date":"2023-12-10T11:53:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.8","date":"2023-11-24T12:43:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.7","date":"2023-11-05T11:21:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.6","date":"2023-10-02T04:24:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.5","date":"2023-09-17T10:05:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.4","date":"2023-08-30T13:48:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.3","date":"2023-08-26T04:43:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.3"}]` |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/eu-ai-act-compliance | https://github.com/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fsongquanpeng%2Fone-api&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

## Capabilities (Llm Gateways)

| Capability | Kong AI Gateway | One API |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Openai compatible API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic failover | ✓ | ✓ |
| Routing strategy | Custom | Load based |
| Caching | Semantic | - |
| Virtual key management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Budget spend controls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rate limiting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guardrails moderation | Built in | - |
| Request cost observability | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming support | - | ✓ |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | Self hosted |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Open source self host | Open source self host |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:02:47.053Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*