Higress vs Kong
HigressAPI Gateway
FreePublished price
KongAPI Management
$250+ / monthPublished price
Higress API Gateway Production-grade AI Gateway for Agent development and LLM API management | Kong API Management API management. For everyone. | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | API Gateway | API Management |
| What it is | Cloud-native API gateway by Alibaba based on Envoy with service discovery and plugin extensibility. | Kong provides an API platform that manages, secures, and observes APIs and microservices across cloud-native environments with the open-source Kong Gateway at its core. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | Free Higress does not publish a current numeric starting price on its public product site. Pricing is tailored by deployment, usage, modules, organization size, or contract scope; cont… | $250+ / month Open Source: Free - Core gateway Kong Konnect Plus: Starting at $250/month - Managed platform Kong Konnect Enterprise: Custom pricing - Advanced governance |
| Pricing model | Custom quote | Not available |
| Free options | Free plan · Free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 2017 |
| Team size | 10000+ employees | 501-1,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, China | San Francisco, California |
| Featured clients | Not available | Nasdaq, Samsung, GlaxoSmithKline |