Kong AI Gateway alternatives

Kong's gateway for governing LLM, MCP and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic in one place. It controls access, data leakage and token usage for LLM calls, and generates and secures MCP servers for agents. Full Kong AI Gateway record →

  1. 1 IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 4.7k released 2026-10-29 Apache-2.0 Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  2. 2 Obot MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 1.1k released 2026-10-29 MIT Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  3. 3 Microsoft MCP Gateway MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 899 released 2026-10-27 MIT Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  4. 4 Official MCP Registry MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 7.4k released 2026-10-29 Apache-2.0 (transitioning from MIT) Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  5. 5 Ghost Beacon MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ released 2026-10-28 MIT Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  6. 6 Docker MCP Catalog, Toolkit & Gateway MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also has MCP

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 1.6k released 2026-10-26 proprietary; mcp-gateway MIT Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  7. 7 Lunar.dev MCPX MCP gateways & registries ⚠ acquired — acquired by Boomi

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 506 released 2026-10-29 MIT (open-source gateway); enterprise… Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

  8. 8 Cloudflare MCP server portals MCP gateways & registries

    also in MCP gateways & registries · also has MCP

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ proprietary Compare with Kong AI Gateway →

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