Legit.Show measured Kong Inc.'s Security frame at 60/100. Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options. No HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Kong Inc.?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Infrastructure & DevOps

Kong Inc.

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-13 — deterministic & reproducible

Kong Inc. provides API gateway and AI gateway management software for enterprises.

81/100

7/7 frames

Top 40% of 14,178 measured

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-13 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Kong Inc. 81/100 on 2026-09-13, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/konghq-com/2026-09-13

Is Kong Inc. production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Kong Inc. 81 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 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 Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 46/100
Accessibility — 91/100
Security — 60/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 75/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 92/100
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 — 45 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 built it

Augusto Marietti · product account @kong

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/

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from konghq.com's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator: Kong Inc., as named in konghq.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-13.

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