Kong Inc. alternatives

Tools that do what Kong Inc. does, found by what they say they do rather than by shelf. Among the equally alike, the most used come first. Each line says how it differs from Kong Inc..

Read 2026-10-19 · Kong Inc. itself: From $25/mo

With a free plan or free to use: VoidLLM, Truefoundry, HasMCP, Respan, Cloudflare, Open WebUI, GitHub.

10 alternativesUnlike Kong Inc.

#1
VoidLLM Developer tools
Self-hosted gateway that routes requests to multiple LLM providers with zero-knowledge architecture, never storing prompts or responses.
Free planMore widely used
3
Active
From ≈ $55/mo
#2
Truefoundry LLM operations
Routes requests to language models and agents with observability, access controls, and deployment across cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
Free planAlso: Agents
46.2k
Active
From $25/user/mo
#3
ngrok AI Gateway Developer tools
Routes requests to multiple LLM providers and self-hosted models through a single gateway with token-level observability and per-key access controls.
Also: MonitoringMore widely used
131
Active
From $0.05 per use
#4
HasMCP Developer tools
Converts OpenAPI specifications into MCP servers with built-in authentication, rate limiting, and token optimization.
Free planMore widely used
17
Active
From $24/mo
#5
Respan Developer tools
Routes LLM requests through one gateway to reach multiple models with observability, caching, and evaluations.
Free planCosts more
1.1k
Active
From $199/mo
2024
#6
Cloudflare Security MCP · open
Proxies website traffic through a global network for CDN caching, DNS, DDoS protection and a web firewall, plus Workers serverless code and zero-trust access.
Free planCheaper
4.9M
Active
From $20/mo
2009
#7
ZenMux Developer tools
Unified API gateway providing access to 100+ AI models with automatic failover and built-in compensation for poor outputs.
CheaperMore widely used
2.5k
Active
From $20/mo
#8
Open WebUI Developer tools
Self-hosted web interface for running AI models locally with data residency and access control.
Free planMore widely used
25.2k
Active
Free plan
#9
GitHub Developer tools
Hosts Git repositories with pull requests, code review, issue tracking and Actions pipelines for building, testing and deploying code.
Free planAlso: Workflow automation, Code generation
42M
From $4/user/mo
2007
#10
Microsoft Developer tools
Sells Windows, Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud services, plus Surface devices and Xbox consoles.
More widely used
135M
Active
1975

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