Most of the Kong adoption is free and comes from the open-source version, which you can download for free [1] and perhaps even contribute to [2]. We support an

Most of the Kong adoption is free and comes from the open-source version, which you can download for free [1] and perhaps even contribute to [2]. We support an extensibility framework [3] that the community has been using to extend Kong (more than 500+ plugins on GitHub), including about 30 plugins that are shipped for free in the open-source distribution [4]. Kong is modular by design so that we could walk away from bundled complexity, and that's really why we created the concept of Plugins. Plugins can be installed, distributed, and used independently and they can be removed anytime (not just disabled, but entirely removed from the actual runtime). [1] - https://konghq.com/install/ https://konghq.com/install/ [2] - https://github.com/Kong/kong https://github.com/Kong/kong [3] - https://docs.konghq.com/latest/plugin-development/ https://docs.konghq.com/latest/plugin-development/ [4] - https://docs.konghq.com/hub/ https://docs.konghq.com/hub/