Ambassador Edge Stack vs Kong Gateway
| Ambassador Edge Stack | Kong Gateway | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Free trial | No | Yes |
| Paid from | — | Free |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | — | api, Linux, self-hosted, Web |
| Deployment model | self-hosted | hybrid |
| Supported protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, gRPC, gRPC-Web, HTTP/3 | REST, HTTP, Kafka, WebSockets, gRPC, GraphQL, UDP, TCP, TLS |
| Rate limiting | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Authentication methods | — | Basic Auth, HMAC, JWT, Key Auth, LDAP, mutual TLS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, Vault |
| Request transformation | — | Yes |
| Monthly request limit | — | 1,000,000 requests/mo |
Both are listed in Best API Gateway Software. On Inferse, Kong Gateway scores higher on our published basis.