Alternatives to Kong
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If you're comparing Kong with other companies in Developer Tools, start here. These are the 19 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Kong profile.
Developer Tools: Kong's main category
19 companies sit alongside Kong here, busiest first.
- Vercel#7 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Vercel is a US cloud platform company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch, originally as ZEIT, and based in San Francisco. It provides a frontend cloud for building, deploying and…
- 93 stories in the last 90 days
- Cloudflare#20 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- JetBrains#3 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
JetBrains is a software company that makes integrated development environments and developer tools, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion, the…
- 56 stories in the last 90 days
- Twilio#16 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Twilio is a US customer engagement platform and communications API company founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Developers use its APIs to add SMS, voice, WhatsApp and other…
- 51 stories in the last 90 days
- GitHub#1 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
GitHub is a software development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on code, used by developers, open source projects and enterprises. Its products include…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Netlify#8 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and hosting web applications and websites. It provides Git-based continuous deployment, a global edge network, serverless and…
- 41 stories in the last 90 days
- GitLab#4 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform company whose single application covers source code management, CI/CD, security testing and software delivery, with AI features under GitLab Duo…
- 40 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#2 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Postman#6 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Postman is an API platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship Postman application lets developers design, test, document, mock and monitor APIs, and…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Supabase#15 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Docker#14 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Snyk#12 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Snyk is a developer security company founded in 2015 in London and Tel Aviv and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AI Trust platform helps developers and security teams…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Sentry#13 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Sentry is an application monitoring company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operated by Functional Software, Inc. Its developer-first platform provides error tracking…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- SmartBear#18 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
SmartBear is a US software quality and API tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Its portfolio includes Swagger and SwaggerHub for API design, ReadyAPI and…
- 24 stories in the last 90 days
- Replit#10 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Replit is a US software company that provides a browser-based development environment and AI app-building platform. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Sourcegraph#11 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Sourcegraph is a US developer tools company founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and based in San Francisco. It builds a code search and code intelligence platform that…
- 6 stories in the last 90 days
- Atlassian#5 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools…
Evidence is still building for Atlassian.
- Cursor#9 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger. Built as a…
Evidence is still building for Cursor.
- Tricentis#19 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Kong
Tricentis is a software testing and quality engineering company founded in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its AI-powered platform covers test…
Evidence is still building for Tricentis.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Kong. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Kong's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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