Kong Gateway
Kong Inc.
π‘ Pick it for a widely adopted, Kubernetes-friendly API gateway with a strong open-source core.
Kong Gateway is an API gateway and reverse proxy for managing, securing, and observing service APIs. It targets platform and API teams...
Pros
- Broader API-management features than Envoy's core distribution
- Large plugin ecosystem for authentication, security, and transformations
- Strong fit for centralized multi-team API governance
Cons
- More operationally complex than a standalone Envoy deployment
- Some governance and enterprise capabilities require paid plans
- API-gateway abstractions can be unnecessary for internal proxy-only workloads
Free, open source; enterprise pricing on request