Available worldwide
What is KrakenD?
KrakenD is a api gateways tool. We're still gathering a full overview; visit the site for now.
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- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Air-gapped
- Self-hosted
KrakenD alternatives
Other api gateways we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WSO2 API ManagerThe Open Platform to Control APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 50%
- ZuploThe Unified Gateway for APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 60%
- IBM API ConnectSeamlessly develop, manage, secure and socialize all your API types, wherever they live.low · 2%
- Traefiklow · 22%
- Tyklow · 44%
- EmissaryA Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxylow · 24%
The Vioscale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.17 | 8.8 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 45 | 0.13 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.07 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 89 | 0.06 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 27 | 0.10 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 65 | 0.03 | 1.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.07 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
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 | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-07-31 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 2,663 | highsource · 2026-07-31 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","oauth_oidc":true,"monetization":true,"observability":true,"developer_portal":true,"plugin_ecosystem":"limited","request_transformation":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-07-31 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-07-31 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"ES","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 19 | mediumsource · 2026-07-31 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |