KrakenD vs. Kong Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Kong and KrakenD both offer generally great performance. However, the different databases supported by KrakenD make for better multi-region performance.

🤔 Strongly consider KrakenD over Kong if

• You want traffic management features like traffic prioritization and quota management. 
• You’re focused on having better API composition for aggregating results from multiple backend services.

🤔 Strongly consider Kong over KrakenD if

• You need to have better access control features like domain access policies and role-based access controls (RBAC).
• You want best-in-class support for API protocols like Swagger, RAML, gRPC and AsyncAPI.
• You want protocol conversion. 

📝 Other Notes

• KrakenD is stateless whereas Kong is stateful. So with KrakenD, there’s no need to store the configuration in a database or node.
• Kong has better support for OAuth and OpenID in comparison to KrakenD.