Comparison

Kong Gateway vs Red Hat 3scale

No leader: the top candidate Red Hat 3scale has only 0.13 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
Kong Gateway49
Red Hat 3scale50
Score
Vioscale score
Kong Gateway49 / 100high · 76%
Red Hat 3scale50 / 100low · 13%
Pricing
Free tier
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Model
Kong Gatewaycommercial
Red Hat 3scalecommercial
Price level
Kong Gatewaylow
Red Hat 3scale
Transparent
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Integrations
Count
Kong Gateway11
Red Hat 3scale
Security
Disclosure policy
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Gdpr
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Pci
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Scorecard
Kong Gateway7.4
Red Hat 3scale
Soc2
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Reliability
Status page
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Adoption
Dependent repos
Kong Gateway1
Red Hat 3scale
Github stars
Kong Gateway44,043
Red Hat 3scale
Activity
Commits last 30d
Kong Gateway1
Red Hat 3scale
Release
Cadence days
Kong Gateway29
Red Hat 3scale
History
Kong Gateway20 items
Red Hat 3scale
License
Spdx
Kong GatewayApache-2.0
Red Hat 3scale
Language
Primary
Kong GatewayLua
Red Hat 3scale
Market
Availability
Red Hat 3scale

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Hosting
Kong GatewayCloud + self-hosted
Red Hat 3scale-
Kubernetes-native
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Traffic
Rate limiting
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Request/response transformation
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Mutual TLS
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Kong Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
gRPC support
Kong Gateway-
Red Hat 3scale-
Delivery
Developer portal
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Monetization
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Kong GatewayExtensive
Red Hat 3scale-
Insight
Observability
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale-

What each one is

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

Kong Gateway

Kong provides a unified platform for building, testing, and governing APIs and AI agents. It handles both traditional API gateway functions—routing, rate limiting, authentication—and modern AI-specific concerns like token budgeting, context management, and LLM traffic control. Includes gateway, API management, testing tools, and event streaming capabilities.

Independently observed

Red Hat 3scale

Red Hat 3scale is an API management solution that helps organizations design, build, and operate APIs at scale.

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 Gateway

SubscriptionFree tier
as of verify ↗

Red Hat 3scale

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
CLI
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Self-hosted
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale
Hybrid
Kong Gateway
Red Hat 3scale

Integrations

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

Kong Gateway

11 total
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Azure Content Safety
  • Google Cloud Model Armor
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Llama 3
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Git
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
Independently observed

Red Hat 3scale

Not documented yet.

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