Kong/kong
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🦍 The API and AI Gateway
About
Kong or Kong Gateway is a cloud-native, platform-agnostic, scalable API 𖧹 LLM 𖧹 MCP Gateway distinguished for its high performance and extensibility via plugins. It also provides advanced AI traffic capabilities with multi-LLM support, semantic security, MCP traffic security and analytics, and more.
By providing functionality for proxying, routing, load balancing, health checking, authentication (and more), Kong serves as the central layer for orchestrating microservices or conventional API traffic - and agentic LLM and MCP as well - with ease.
Kong runs natively on Kubernetes thanks to its official Kubernetes Ingress Controller.
If you prefer to use a cloud-hosted Kong, you can sign…
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Latest metrics
| Stars | 43.8k | 2026-07-16 |
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| Forks | 5.2k | 2026-07-16 |
| Commits | 11.3k | 2026-07-16 |
| Releases | 147 | 2026-07-16 |
| Watchers | 994 | 2026-07-16 |
| Open issues | 67 | 2026-07-16 |
| Open PRs | 94 | 2026-07-16 |