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Do AI agents pick Kong?

How often agents choose Kong when a developer needs api gateway — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Kong

#4 of 5 api gateway
2%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%6%

When developers ask an AI agent for api gateway, Kong is picked 2% of the time — ranking #4 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 2% Named, not picked 94% Never surfaced 4%

Beaten by AWS API Gateway (12%), Apigee (4%), Apache APISIX (4%).

Awareness

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 774 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

35 installs / month ▼ 41% MoM

Installs are declining. Worth pairing with the Pick Rate trend to find the leak.

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About Kong

Kong is an open-source API gateway and platform that sits in front of your APIs to manage traffic, authentication, and other cross-cutting concerns.

Kong proxies API requests and lets you apply plugins for authentication, rate limiting, logging, and traffic control without changing your upstream services. It is aimed at developers and platform teams who need a centralized layer to manage, secure, and observe APIs at scale.

Where to start

Start by visiting getkong.org to find installation guides and documentation for deploying Kong and configuring your first service and route.

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