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Kong Mesh

byKong
in Service Mesh
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Kong Mesh

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Kong Mesh?

Kong Mesh is a software designed to manage and secure service connectivity across distributed architectures such as microservices, containers, and cloud environments. The software provides features including service discovery, traffic routing, load balancing, and mutual TLS encryption to ensure secure communication between services. It also offers observability tools for monitoring and tracing service interactions. Kong Mesh enables organizations to address challenges related to service reliability, security, and scalability by providing policy controls, failover mechanisms, and integration with service orchestration platforms. The software is suitable for handling complex application networks and helps streamline application performance and compliance requirements.

Kong Mesh Pricing

Kong Mesh software utilizes a subscription-based pricing model, offering different tiers based on deployment size and required features. Pricing is structured according to the number of nodes managed and enterprise feature access, with options for monthly or annual billing. A free version is available for smaller-scale use or evaluation purposes, with paid plans providing support and advanced functionality.

Overall experience with Kong Mesh

ENGINEER
50M - 250M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Product Offers Solid Performance And Customization With Frequent Update Requirements”

4.0
Oct 1, 2025
The product got a learning curve but its reasonable, its works solid & lots of custom knobs.
ENGINEERING VP
<50M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“A comprehensive service mesh framework with a lot good security built-in functions”

3.0
Nov 22, 2022
Kong Mesh provides a comprehensive framework to mesh (integrate) your micro services into an overall application. It is very useful in current service (API) based development environment, where individual developer works on their own API and this mesh service integrate the workflow and provide an overall service.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 10th November 2023

Kong enables any company to become an API-first company with a unified platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller. From growing startups to Fortune 500 companies, more than 600 organizations rely on Kong to help them deliver fast, reliable, and secure digital experiences.

Company Details

Updated 12th June 2024
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2017
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
https://konghq.com/

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Kong Mesh Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(9 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
44%
4 Star
44%
3 Star
11%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.1

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Product Offers Solid Performance And Customization With Frequent Update Requirements

    4.0
    Oct 1, 2025
    The product got a learning curve but its reasonable, its works solid & lots of custom knobs.
  • ENGINEERING MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Kong Service Mesh: Exceptional Quality and Enterprise Support

    5.0
    Jan 9, 2025
    Reliable support and engagement from the Kong Support team.
  • CLOUD ARCHITECT
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    An In-Depth Look at User-Friendly Technical Documentation

    5.0
    Jan 7, 2025
    The ease of implementation .The technical documentation is good and is easy to follow
  • IT Infra Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Top performant & scalable API platform

    4.0
    Jun 9, 2023
    Kong Konnect allows us to simplify APIs mangement, identify threats quickly and improve visibility
  • SRE
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Well product

    5.0
    Jun 5, 2023
    Kong connect is really powerful platform that can be used by any of organization of all sizes. I really love using this product and hope that the product can release more helpful features
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Reviewer Insights for: Kong Mesh
Performance of Kong Mesh Across Market Features

Kong Mesh Likes & Dislikes

Like

The support team is great, with lots of patience & knowledge. The products compliance is super, lots of features around security & networking.

Like

For mid sized company like us, we are lacking of security experts, and to develop an external facing application, which is meshed from a few internal APIs, the built-in security function provided by Kong Mesh saves us a lot money and time to hire and work with a security consulting company.

Like

Kong Service Mesh is a secure, scalable service with proper enterprise-level support and product updates.

Dislike

Needs to be updated on a monthly basis due to vulnerabilities.

Dislike

It does not work quite well to mesh services from both cloud and on-premise, and the support for GCP is not as good as other platforms.

Dislike

Lack of support for Windows platform-based services. It is primarily a Linux-based platform.