Kong
Kong Joined Aug 2011 View on GitHub
- Stars
- 108,302
- across 377 public repos
- Rank
- #197
- of 94,827 organizations, top 0.2%
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 652 | 🦍 The API and AI Gateway | Lua | 44,368 |
| 773 | The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage. | TypeScript | 40,135 |
| 25,129 | Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | Java | 2,702 |
| 28,153 | Kong for Kubernetes: The official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes. | Go | 2,415 |
| 29,827 | Stale-while-revalidate data fetching for Vue | TypeScript | 2,277 |
| 33,118 | Insomnia Mockbin is the underlying backend for the API mocks capability of Insomnia. It is built and used by Kong, the author of the open-source Kong Gateway. | JavaScript | 2,055 |
| 46,204 | Docker distribution for Kong | Shell | 1,483 |
| 53,537 | Unirest in PHP: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | PHP | 1,271 |
| 55,978 | HTTP Request snippet generator for many languages & libraries | TypeScript | 1,210 |
| 69,370 | Unirest in Node.js: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | JavaScript | 951 |
| 101,786 | Remove the OAuth dance with one request. | JavaScript | 629 |
| 123,874 | decK: Configuration management and drift detection for Kong | Go | 507 |
| 134,693 | Admin GUI for Kong Gateway (Official) | TypeScript | 461 |
| 142,946 | Unirest in Python: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | Python | 431 |
| 149,451 | Embeddable API code snippets for your website, blog or API documentation | Pug | 410 |
| 150,759 | 🌋 Build AI agents that seamlessly combine LLM reasoning with real-world actions via MCP tools — in just a few lines of TypeScript. | TypeScript | 406 |
| 165,993 | Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | Ruby | 364 |
| 194,817 | Helm charts for Kong | Mustache | 303 |
| 213,686 | Unirest in Objective-C: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | Objective-C | 272 |
| 224,262 | Simple template to get started with custom Kong plugins | Lua | 257 |
| 227,882 | Kubernetes managed Kong cluster | Shell | 252 |
| 263,048 | 🦍 Archived repo for docs.konghq.com website. Use https://github.com/Kong/developer.konghq.com instead. | Ruby | 212 |
| 272,543 | Cross Worker Events for Nginx in Pure Lua | Lua | 203 |
| 290,545 | Unirest in .NET: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. | C# | 188 |
| 305,376 | This is a simple node.js + express.js application that shows an authorization page for the OAuth 2.0 plugin on Kong. | JavaScript | 177 |
| 312,780 | Tooling to run plugin tests with Kong and Kong Enterprise | Lua | 172 |
| 314,350 | Write Kong plugins in Go! 🦍 | Go | 171 |
| 327,179 | 🦍 Kong Vue Component Library | Vue | 163 |
| 342,852 | Lua DNS client, load balancer, and utility library | Lua | 154 |
| 356,161 | Healthcheck library for OpenResty to validate upstream service status | Lua | 147 |
| 366,306 | Nginx + WebAssembly | C | 142 |
| 408,689 | Vagrantfile for Kong testing and development | Shell | 124 |
| 419,393 | Prometheus plugin for Kong - this plugin has been moved into https://github.com/Kong/kong, please open issues and PRs in that repo | Lua | 120 |
| 452,649 | Kubernetes Operator for Kong Gateways | Go | 109 |
| 476,968 | Go binding for Kong's admin API | Go | 102 |
| 499,807 | Open source glossary of API terms, acronyms and industry buzzwords. | 96 | |
| 544,989 | Kong Terraform Module for AWS | HCL | 86 |
| 544,989 | A collection of Kong plugins written in Go | Go | 86 |
| 640,688 | Expression based matching library for Kong | Rust | 70 |
| 648,236 | Homebrew tap for Kong | Ruby | 69 |
| 663,577 | Kong Go Plugin Server | Go | 67 |
| 679,495 | Kong CloudFormation Stack | 65 | |
| 723,106 | A Kong plugin for propogating zipkin spans and reporting spans to a zipkin server - this plugin has been moved into https://github.com/Kong/kong, please open issues and PRs in that repo | Lua | 60 |
| 763,331 | Multipart Parser for Lua | Lua | 56 |
| 834,115 | Secure Remote Password library for Go | Go | 50 |
Among 94,827 organizations
100k–160k stars: 104 organizations, including Kong
Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- Lua 45.5k stars, 42% · 9 repos
- TypeScript 44.5k stars, 41% · 5 repos
- JavaScript 3.8k stars, 4% · 4 repos
- Go 3.5k stars, 3% · 8 repos
- Java 2.7k stars, 2% · 1 repo
- Shell 1.9k stars, 2% · 3 repos
- PHP 1.3k stars, 1% · 1 repo
- Ruby 645 stars, 1% · 3 repos
and 9 more languages
When they were made
45 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2011 and 2025
Quick stats
- Next rank
- +110 stars to reach #196
- Next milestone
- +82,423 stars to reach the top 0.1%
- Public repos
- 377, 45 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 9 over 1k stars, 2 over 10k stars
- Top repo
- kong, #652 of all repos, 41% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 2,254 stars from repos under 50