# The world’s most adopted
open source API gateway
Loved by developers. Trusted by enterprises.
## Lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud native API gateway
Ultra-lightweight, infinitely scalable NGINX engine with 50K+ transactions per second per node.
Kong Gateway delivers the architectural flexibility you need to operate across any cloud, platform, or protocol.
Configure Kong Gateway natively using an API, web UI, or declarative configuration to manage updates via CI/CD pipelines.
## Why Kong Gateway?
Built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures.
## Fully automated
- - Automate each phase of the API and microservices lifecycle through declarative configuration.
- - Easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to bring applications online faster.
## Deployment agnostic
- - Run Kong Gateway in any environment, platform, and implementation pattern — from on-prem to cloud, Kubernetes, and serverless
- - Flexibility to configure Kong Gateway with or without database, and in hybrid or cloud-hosted modes.
## Highly extensible
- - Exercise granular control over your API traffic with out-of-the-box security, authentication, transformation, and analytics plugins.
- - Easily extend Kong Gateway to support unique use cases with custom plugins via Kong's Plugin Development Kit.
## Kubernetes native
- - Configure Kong Gateway the same way as Kubernetes with Kong Ingress Controller.
- - Implement traffic management, transformations, and observability across Kubernetes clusters with zero downtime.
## Leverage the Gateway for data orchestration and transformation
- - Design flexible, granular policy flows
- - Drive internal auth, API mashing, and more data transformation use cases
## Kong Gateway propels enterprise success
## Pexa
Kong is a natural fit for PEXA embarking on the modernization journey. It ticks all the boxes — scalability, security, and self-service — which takes the hassle of managing APIs
30%
Reduction in costs
## Australia Post
With Kong, we’ve taken a big leap forward in our ability to reduce operational overhead while efficiently scaling to support the increase in traffic requests from our rapidly growing customer base.
Hours
Developer
onboarding reduced
from days to hours
## Mercedes Benz
Mercedes-Benz decided to focus on Kong as their recommended choice because it's suitable for both small and large instances providing simple configuration, operation and monitoring.
1,500+
APIs seamlessly
managed
## Optum
Kong has produced an 85% reduction in gateway overhead compared to our previous proprietary solution, in addition to being 90% more resource efficient.
85%
Reduction
operational overhead