Verified User in Chemicals
CC
Verified User in Chemicals
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Oustanding, secure Gateway"
5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

First thing is high Performance and Scalability and ease of use. Kong Gateway is a powerful and flexible solution known for its solid performance and ability to scale with growing needs. Second one is: broad API Style Kong supports multiple API styles and data sources, including HTTP, SOAP, WebSocket, gRPC, GraphQL, and Kafka event streams, offering Last thing is strong security: Kong provides robust security features to protect API infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Only one - Documentation. Users report that the documentation can be poor, lacking depth and sometimes leaving out crucial information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Verified User in Higher Education
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple to use and configure, works great and very resilient."
4/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Documentation and user friendly interface and support when paying customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

The cost of some features like service mesh where Istio is free and as good product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jitendra C.
JC
Jitendra C.
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"KONG API MANAGEMENT"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Adds support for audio transcription, translation, image generation, batch LLM calls, stateful assistants, and response introspection via providers like OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Gemini, Cohere, Hugging Face. Empowering richer, multilingual, multimedia agent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Kong OSS lacks a built-in GUI; the enterprise UI (Kong Manager) is powerful but can be overwhelming or unintuitive for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohd  U.
MU
Mohd U.
Senior Java Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Kong G2 review"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

I like that we can set rate limiting as per our needs , keeping full control of the traffic preventing abuse . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

The learning curve is a little bit steep and also not all error messages are easy to interpret Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
CB
Verified User in Banking
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Begineer"
5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

There are comprehensive Mesh Identity support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Good to simplify the migration steps to make it easy to adopt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong - A fast, simple yet complex, API Gateway"
5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Its performance. It's a super lightweight gateway built on top of nginx that's optimized for low latency and high throughput use cases. It can handle hundreds or even thousands of concurrent requests, depending on your infra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Not much, but I would say that for many plugins it lacks more documentation with samples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KD
Khemraj D.
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Kong: One-stop solution to manage the API world"
5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Kong is a one-stop solution for managing your microservice in the container world. Right from kong mesh to seamless experience with API management reduces the API development burden to market the product quickly as never before. It saves my organization from paying bills of many IPs addresses and make it easy implement for inbound traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Multi-tenancy of the kong control plane (IngressClass) needs to be documented. Kong API integration with ISTIO is a bit harder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MRIDUL N.
MN
MRIDUL N.
Individual contributor
Higher Education
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Fast and easy"
4/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Fast and high throughput support as always. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Api dependency is fixed now and works smooth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valery H.
VH
Valery H.
CQTO (Chief Quantum Technology Officer) & CxO as CEO, Founder Owner-Operator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"New Tool Intro Level for Better Internal ROI"
4/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Has many hybrid API flexible features. Plugin based abilities. Similarities to Kubernates and Boomi as tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Features require testibg and use real-time for best understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
IC
Verified User in Consulting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"API First Capability for Enterprise Solutions"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Provides scalability and performance with proper requests volume matching. Deployment architecture meets SLA nd RPO-RTO requirements so far. Provides RBACs for security and runtime and management planes can be completely deployed on-prem. Provides monitoring and logging capabilities along with Kubernetes & Container based deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Nothing at the moment. Meets our requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.