Kong Gateway
🦍 The API and AI Gateway observed · 2026-10-19
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 75
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 117
- age_days: 4355
- days_rel: 8
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
44279 stars · 5237 forks observed · 2026-10-19
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-28, confidence 0.99
Kong Gateway is an open‑source, cloud‑native API and AI gateway that provides high‑performance request routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management. It can be deployed on bare metal, containers, or Kubernetes and extended via a rich plugin ecosystem.
Use cases
- Expose microservices behind a single, secure API endpoint
- Add authentication, rate limiting, and logging to existing APIs without code changes
- Implement AI model routing and LLM traffic control for generative AI services
- Deploy a scalable gateway for multi‑cloud or hybrid environments
- Replace legacy reverse proxies with a programmable, plugin‑driven solution
When to choose
- You need a production‑grade, high‑throughput API gateway with built‑in plugin support
- Your architecture runs on Kubernetes or container platforms and requires native integration
- You want to manage both traditional APIs and AI/LLM traffic from a single gateway
- You require advanced security policies, rate limiting, and observability out of the box
When to avoid
- You prefer a lightweight, single‑binary proxy with minimal configuration overhead
- Your team lacks expertise in Lua or does not want to manage plugin development
- You need a fully managed SaaS solution rather than self‑hosting the gateway
Facets
application · maturity active
api-gateway routing auth rate-limiting logging monitoring security plugin-system backend cloud-computing microservices windows cloud self-hosted lua high-performance extensible ai-gateway mcp serverless devops linux macos docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Kong/kong · fetched 2026-10-19 · 1ff24b1c93f2
- homepage: https://konghq.com/install/ · fetched 2026-09-14 · 39f6f94cc00c
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/docker-read-only · fetched 2026-09-14 · f01daa344cf7
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/docker-distroless · fetched 2026-09-14 · 11b4c97c8740
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/operator/get-started/gateway-api/install · fetched 2026-09-14 · 0206d187c524
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/kubernetes-ingress-controller/install · fetched 2026-09-14 · 3d76e0a3ae5a
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/docker · fetched 2026-09-14 · 6971f1cb26e1
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/kubernetes/konnect · fetched 2026-09-14 · d15c836b4949
- site_page: https://konghq.com/pricing · fetched 2026-09-14 · 6b984bb46b89
- site_page: https://developer.konghq.com/sitemap · fetched 2026-09-14 · 2ff81ae886fb
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kong/kong | main | 91 |
| Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller | backend | 96 |
| Kong/docker-kong | infra | 91 |
| Kong/deck | backend | 99 |
| Kong/kong-manager | frontend | 97 |
| Kong/charts | infra | 95 |
| Kong/kong-plugin | plugin | 53 |
| Kong/lua-resty-worker-events | plugin | 32 |
| Kong/kong-pongo | infra | 94 |
| Kong/kongponents | frontend | 95 |
| Kong/lua-resty-dns-client | plugin | 10 |
| Kong/lua-resty-healthcheck | plugin | 76 |
| Kong/kong-vagrant | infra | 10 |
| Kong/kong-plugin-prometheus | plugin | 10 |
| Kong/kong-operator | infra | 94 |
| Kong/kong-plugin-zipkin | plugin | 10 |
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