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

Kong's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
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

  1. Lua 45.5k stars, 42% · 9 repos
  2. TypeScript 44.5k stars, 41% · 5 repos
  3. JavaScript 3.8k stars, 4% · 4 repos
  4. Go 3.5k stars, 3% · 8 repos
  5. Java 2.7k stars, 2% · 1 repo
  6. Shell 1.9k stars, 2% · 3 repos
  7. PHP 1.3k stars, 1% · 1 repo
  8. 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

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