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  • The fastest API gateway.

    True linear scalability.

    KrakenD is a stateless, distributed, high-performance API Gateway that helps you effortlessly adopt microservices.

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    Go beyond a simple reverse-proxy

    The API Gateway pattern at its full extent

    KrakenD creates an API able to connect, secure, aggregate, transform or remove data from your services.

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    High performance

    Power your APIs with unrivaled speed. KrakenD handles thousands of requests per second, outperforming the competition. Whether you're scaling globally or running intense workloads, KrakenD's stateless architecture ensures consistent, top-tier performance.

    Simplicity

    A single binary and its configuration are all you need to manage your API gateway in a GitOps way. No cumbersome dependencies that increase your infrastructure costs.

    Stable, Flat Pricing

    Transparent, and predictable pricing. KrakenD offers unlimited requests and APIs in all its plans. Our commercial model does not have hidden costs or extras, so you can stay on the same budget even when you scale.

    The Fastest API Gateway in the Market

    80K+

    requests/second on commodity hardware

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    Unprecedented throughput

    Built for Performance

    KrakenD's stateless architecture and performance-first approach for every internal component beat any API Gateway in the market.

    • Network Limit Verification

    • Resource Consumption Assessment

    • Independent Performance Benchmarking

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    * Independent study from the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

    Solving Shared Concerns

    KrakenD saves you time by handling common concerns across all your microservices, allowing you to focus solely on your business logic instead of re-implementing the same layers repeatedly.

    API Aggregation

    Create faster interactions with automatic API Composition and aggregation of multiple data sources into a single response.

    Traffic Management

    Control your traffic with rules like rate limiting, concurrent calls, shadow proxy, bot detection, circuit breaker, IP filtering, and others.

    Authentication

    End-User validation and gateway to service validation: JWT, Client credentials, Oauth2, OpenID, API-Keys, Basic Auth, mTLS.

    Services Connectivity

    Connect not only to REST APIs, but many other services like RabbitMQ, SNS, SQS, Kafka, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, Lambda...

    Data and Protocol Manipulation

    Modify the data you return to the end-user, or the payload you send to your services. Filter fields, enrich responses, convert from SOAP, JSON or XML automatically.

    Monitor & Analytics

    Thanks to our OpenTelemetry integrations and other exporters, you can push logs, metrics, and traces to your favorite processors or telemetry providers.

    Documentation

    With the OpenAPI exporter, you can automatically generate rich documentation websites. Have an OpenAPI? Then, create your API gateway using the OpenAPI specs!

    GitOps Operated

    Manage your API gateway exactly as you are managing the rest of the services today. Put the configuration in a version control system and delegate the needed parts to each team.

    What People are Saying

    Trusted by the world's largest companies.

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    KrakenD represents a renaissance of innovation and investment in the API gateway and management space by challenging the established players with a more lightweight, high performance, and modern gateway for API publisher to put to work across their API operations, while also continuing to establish the Linux Foundation as the home for open API specifications and tooling that are continuing to touch and shape almost every business sector today
    Chief Evangelist, Postman

    Kin Lane

    Chief Evangelist, Postman

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    At Hepsiburada we have a massive amount of traffic and a complex ecosystem of around 500 microservices and different datacenters. Adding KrakenD to our Kubernetes clusters has helped us reduce the technical and organizational challenges of dealing with a vast amount of resources securely and easily. We have over 800 containers running with KrakenD and looking forward to having more.
    Engineering Director, Hepsiburada

    Alper Hankendi

    Engineering Director, Hepsiburada

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    KrakenD is working on our production environment like a charm. Its documentation is well structured and comprehensive at once; so we were able to discover and activate new features without any difficulties.
    Senior Full-Stack Developer, Gundlach Automotive

    Martin Gilles

    Senior Full-Stack Developer, Gundlach Automotive

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    I've chosen KrakenD because of its simplicity, statelessness, immutability, and performance.
    Tech Lead Cloud Infrastructure, IBM

    Fabijan Bajo

    Tech Lead Cloud Infrastructure, IBM

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    We have implemented KrakenD and I must say that I am very impressed how easy the installation and configuration process has been. The documentation is one of the best I have ever seen.
    Software Architect, Single.Earth

    M?rt Suga

    Software Architect, Single.Earth

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    Flexibility, performance and robustness are defining KrakenD just to name a few, we were able to quickly and easily build a robust gateway for our systems and we keep enjoying it everyday.
    CTO, Smart Tribune

    Samy Lastmann

    CTO, Smart Tribune

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    KrakenD played a vital role in our API transformation journey by protecting our business platforms boundary and exposing the business capabilities in a standard way to both internal and external audience.
    Enterprise Architecture, lastminute.com

    Stefano Leopizzi

    Enterprise Architecture, lastminute.com

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    I'm excited to hear that KrakenD framework is being brought into the family of open source projects managed by the Linux Foundation. I believe this shows the global community the commitment KrakenD has to keeping their technology open source and free to use. With the adoption that already exists, and this new promise towards the future, I expect amazing things for the product and the community around it.
    Managing Partner, Ardan Studios

    William Kennedy

    Managing Partner, Ardan Studios

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    The Opensource model always was a great proof of innovation and nowadays a synonym of high-quality products and incredible attention with the real needs from the market (Customer Experience). The Linux Foundation is one of the catalysts of incredible solutions, and KrakenD and now Lura would not have a better place to be. With this move, I am sure that it is a start of a new era for this incredible solution in the API Gateway space, the market will be astonished by a lot of good things about to come.
    Founder and partner, Skalena

    Edgar Silva

    Founder and partner, Skalena

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    It seems that KrakenD does not exist because it hasn't caused any problems so far and is really fast, as promised.
    Head of Technology, Ahgora Sistemas

    Celso Zavatti

    Head of Technology, Ahgora Sistemas

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    KrakenD allowed us to focus on our backend and deploy a secure and performant system in a few days. After more than 2 years of use in production and 0 crash or malfunction, it also has proven its robustness
    CTO, Openroom Inc.

    Jonathan Muller

    CTO, Openroom Inc.

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    KrakenD makes it easier for us to manage authentication, filter bots, and integrate our apps. It has proved to be stable and reliable since day one. It is wonderful!
    CTO, Stayforlong

    Raúl M. Sillero

    CTO, Stayforlong

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    We began by creating a model with the community version to assess its capabilities. Once we confirmed that this tool met our needs, we opted for an enterprise license. Simply to benefit from tools that facilitate integration into our model and address specific requirements of our architecture in terms of security, data transformation, and authentication management.
    Senior Engineer, Coop Atlantique

    Nicolas Gabetty

    Senior Engineer, Coop Atlantique

    It must be mentioned again how speedy KrakenD folks are to responding and how helpful it is. It feels like we're working with a team that works here in Paylocity
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    Dannie Walker

    Senior Software Engineer, Paylocity

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