Infrastructure & DevOps
Kong Inc.
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Kong Inc. provides API gateway and AI gateway management software for enterprises.
Is Kong Inc. production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Kong Inc. 82 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Kong Inc. (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 60/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 75/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options.
- No HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 48 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Platform teams · API developers · Enterprise organizations · Kubernetes users · AI/LLM integrators
Pricing
Free tier (30 days), Serverless API Gateway from $25/month per control plane, Hybrid API Gateway from $200/month per control plane, DCGW from $500/month per control plane, AI Gateway models from $100/