Kong Mesh (formerly Kuma) is a CNCF‑certified service mesh that also offers API gateway capabilities, enabling traffic control, security, and observability for microservices. If you’re exploring other API management and service‑mesh solutions, here are 20 popular alternatives.
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Full‑featured API management platform with design, security, analytics, and developer portal; integrates tightly with Google Cloud services.
Enterprise‑grade integration and API management suite offering design‑center, runtime‑manager, and robust policy enforcement.
Fully managed service for creating, publishing, and monitoring APIs at any scale, with built‑in throttling, caching, and Lambda integration.
Microsoft’s API gateway and developer portal solution, providing policy enforcement, analytics, and seamless Azure ecosystem integration.
Comprehensive API lifecycle platform with creation, security, governance, and analytics, targeting hybrid cloud environments.
Open‑source API gateway and management platform offering high performance, analytics, and a cloud‑hosted SaaS option.
Open‑source solution delivering API publishing, lifecycle management, security, and analytics with strong integration capabilities.
Lightweight, open‑source API gateway with developer portal, analytics, and policy engine; also offers an enterprise edition.
Commercial version of Kong Gateway with advanced security, analytics, developer portal, and enterprise support.
NGINX Plus combined with NGINX Service Mesh provides API gateway, traffic management, and observability for microservices.
Simple, cloud‑native service mesh built on top of Traefik proxy, offering automatic mTLS and traffic routing.
Industry‑leading open‑source service mesh that can be paired with an API gateway (e.g., Envoy) for full API management.
Service mesh and service discovery platform with built‑in ACLs, mTLS, and optional API gateway integrations.
Kubernetes‑native API gateway built on Envoy, offering developer portal, rate limiting, and authentication extensions.
API management platform providing access control, rate limiting, analytics, and a developer portal, available on‑prem or SaaS.
High‑performance open‑source API gateway focused on aggregation, caching, and transformation with minimal latency.
Free community version of MuleSoft’s API manager, offering basic API publishing, security policies, and analytics.
Managed Open Service Mesh (OSM) on Azure Kubernetes Service, providing traffic policies and mTLS for APIs.
Fully managed API gateway built on Extensible Service Proxy (ESP), offering authentication, monitoring, and quota management.
Enterprise API management solution with developer portal, security policies, analytics, and hybrid deployment options.