Best Open Source Alternatives to Kong

Compare the best free and open-source alternatives to Kong — self-hosted and desktop replacements you fully control, ranked by GitHub stars, license and platform support.

Curated by open-source.store · Updated November 2026 · 1 alternatives

Kong

Proprietary SaaS

Kong alternatives compared

Open-source alternatives to Kong, compared by stars, license and platform
Tool		License	Platforms	Self-hosted
Orbital	361	—		No	Jun 2026	Visit

Top open-source Kong alternatives

Orbital361

Orbital is an open-source data gateway alternative to Apollo GraphQL that connects APIs and databases on the fly using semantic Taxi specifications.

vs Kong: a free, open-source option you fully control.

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Edgar Sipki

Go & gRPC engineer · founder of EasyP

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Mentoring for backend developers. Consulting for startups.

Go, gRPC and Protobuf done right, LLM agents in production, and the hard parts of shipping a first product.

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Speaker at HighLoad++, GolangConf, AI Conf, DevOpsConf
Helped launch 7+ startups
Maintainer of EasyP, the open-source Protobuf toolkit