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.
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.
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
* 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.
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
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
I've chosen KrakenD because of its simplicity, statelessness, immutability, and performance.Fabijan Bajo
Tech Lead Cloud Infrastructure, IBM
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
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
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
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
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
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docker run -p 8080:8080 devopsfaith/krakend run -c krakend.json