KrakenD
High-performance API gateway for aggregating microservices and AI workloads
- Vendor
- KRAKEND, S.L.U.
- Also known as
- krakend
Available worldwide
What is KrakenD?
An open-source gateway positioned between client applications and backend services that aggregates, transforms, and secures API traffic across distributed microservice architectures with minimal resource consumption.
KrakenD pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free Community Edition; Enterprise Edition available by quote
Community Edition
FreeHigh-performance open source API gateway, free to use
Enterprise Edition
Contact salesProduction-grade gateway with security, governance, and 24/7 support backed by SLAs
What KrakenD does
The capabilities that matter for api gateways, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Kubernetes-native
- ✓
- Rate limiting
- ✓
- Request/response transformation
- ✓
- OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
- ✓
- Mutual TLS
- ✓
- GraphQL gateway
- ✓
- gRPC support
- ✓
- Developer portal
- ✓
- Monetization
- ✓
- Plugin ecosystem
- Limited
- Observability
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (24)
Independently observed- Amazon SNS
- Amazon SQS
- Apache Kafka
- Elasticsearch→•
- Kibana→•
- Datadog→•
- Prometheus→•
- Grafana→•
- Zipkin→•
- Jaeger→•
- REST APIs
- RabbitMQ
- SNS
- SQS
- Kafka
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- SOAP
- Lambda
- NATS
- OpenAI
- Moesif
- Google Analytics
- AWS Lambda
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type IIactive
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
KrakenD FAQ
Common questions about KrakenD, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is 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. It is indexed under API Gateways.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
Is KrakenD free to use?
KrakenD is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Enterprise Edition, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
What platforms does KrakenD support?
KrakenD supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
Can KrakenD be self-hosted?
Yes. KrakenD can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
What does KrakenD integrate with?
We have confirmed 13 integrations for KrakenD, including REST APIs, RabbitMQ, SNS, SQS, Kafka, GraphQL, gRPC and SOAP, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
What security certifications does KrakenD have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for KrakenD. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as KrakenD not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
Is KrakenD open source?
Yes. KrakenD is published under the Apache-2.0 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.
Where is KrakenD available?
KrakenD is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Spain.
Source: https://www.krakend.io
KrakenD alternatives
Other api gateways we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WSO2 API ManagerA platform for designing, deploying, and managing APIs with governance, policy control, and developer toolinglow · 23%
- Zuplomedium · 70%
- TraefikUnified control plane for governing APIs, models, and agent traffic across Kubernetes and multi-cloud infrastructurelow · 43%
- TykA cloud-native, open-source API and AI gateway for managing and securing API traffic across multiple protocolshigh · 75%
- Apache APISIXA flexible, extensible traffic director for APIs and AI applicationsmedium · 53%
- Kong GatewayA cloud-native API gateway that routes and manages microservices traffic with high performance and extensibility through pluginsmedium · 74%
Compare KrakenD
Side by side against other api gateways, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for KrakenD, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 45 | 0.12 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 89 | 0.05 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 44 | 0.09 | 4.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 32 | 0.07 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Stars | 65 | 0.03 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 23 | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 8 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Mtls: Yes · Hosting: both · K8s native: Yes · Oauth oidc: Yes · Grpc support: Yes · Monetization: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 12 | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: ES · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 75% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fkrakend%2Fkrakend-ce%2Fv2&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 90% |
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type II | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://www.krakend.io/docs/security/ | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
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