It seems that KrakenD does not exist because it hasn't caused any problems so far and is really fast, as promised.
Celso Zavatti
Head of Technology / Ahgora Sistemas
KrakenD is a stateless, distributed, high-performance API Gateway that helps you effortlessly run microservices and AI workloads.
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Go beyond a simple reverse-proxy
KrakenD creates an API Gateway able to connect, secure, aggregate, transform or remove data across your services and AI workloads.
Power your APIs and AI workloads with unrivaled speed. KrakenD handles thousands of API and AI requests per second, outperforming the competition. Whether you're scaling globally or running intense workloads, KrakenD's stateless architecture ensures consistent, top-tier performance.
A single binary and its configuration are all you need to manage your APIs and AI workloads in a GitOps way. No cumbersome dependencies that increase your infrastructure costs.
Transparent, and predictable pricing. KrakenD offers unlimited requests, APIs and AI workloads 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.
Unprecedented throughput
KrakenD's stateless architecture and performance-first approach for every internal component beat any AI & API Gateway in the market.
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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.
Create faster interactions with automatic API Composition and aggregation of multiple data sources into a single response.
Control your traffic with rules like rate limiting, concurrent calls, shadow proxy, bot detection, circuit breaker, IP filtering, and others.
End-User validation and gateway to service validation: JWT, Client credentials, Oauth2, OpenID, API-Keys, Basic Auth, mTLS.
Connect not only to REST APIs, but many other services like RabbitMQ, SNS, SQS, Kafka, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, Lambda...
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.
Thanks to our OpenTelemetry integrations and other exporters, you can push logs, metrics, and traces to your favorite processors or telemetry providers.
With the OpenAPI exporter, you can automatically generate rich documentation websites. Have an OpenAPI? Then, create your API gateway using the OpenAPI specs!
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.
Route requests to any model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open source) with fallback, retries and load balancing built in.
Filter prompts and responses before they reach your users or your models. Detect prompt injection and data leaks at the gateway.
Track and limit token consumption per user, team or endpoint. Prevent runaway AI costs before they hit your invoice.
Expose your APIs as tools for AI agents in seconds. Same auth, quotas and security you already trust in KrakenD.
Trusted by the world's largest companies.
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 todayKin Lane
Chief Evangelist, Postman
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.Alper Hankendi
Engineering Director, Hepsiburada
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.Martin Gilles
Senior Full-Stack Developer, Gundlach Automotive
I've chosen KrakenD because of its simplicity, statelessness, immutability, and performance.Fabijan Bajo
Tech Lead Cloud Infrastructure, IBM
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.Märt Suga
Software Architect, Single.Earth
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.Samy Lastmann
CTO, Smart Tribune
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.Stefano Leopizzi
Enterprise Architecture, lastminute.com
I don't need to think about KrakenD, it just works.Dave McPherson
Platform Engineering Lead, Culture Amp
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.William Kennedy
Managing Partner, Ardan Studios
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.Edgar Silva
Founder and partner, Skalena
It seems that KrakenD does not exist because it hasn't caused any problems so far and is really fast, as promised.Celso Zavatti
Head of Technology, Ahgora Sistemas
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 robustnessJonathan Muller
CTO, Openroom Inc.
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!Raúl M. Sillero
CTO, Stayforlong
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.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 PaylocityDannie Walker
Senior Software Engineer, Paylocity
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