Compare Kong and Zuplo free tiers side by side. Pricing, limits, change history, and risk assessment for developers.

Kong vs Zuplo

Side-by-side free tier comparison. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-10-18.

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Verdict

We are not publishing a free-tier verdict for either Kong or Zuplo. The page we cite for Kong states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-08. The only record that would rate Zuplo is a change we could not check against an archived copy of Zuplo's page, so we are not publishing a rating for it. We are not publishing a stability rating for Zuplo. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.

A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. A badge carrying a date states the record it rests on; a badge with no date rests on no record in force.

Kong

Risk
CategoryAPI Gateway
TierOSS
Verified2026-07-28
Last read2026-10-08
Changes0 recorded
Kong Gateway is an open-source API, LLM and MCP gateway under Apache 2.0. It is self-hosted with no request or usage limits and includes the Kong Manager web UI. Kong Konnect is a separate hosted platform with a free trial and per-gateway paid plans.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-08, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Zuplo

Risk
CategoryAPI Gateway
TierFree
Verified2026-10-18
Last read2026-11-08
Changes1 recorded
Free tier includes 100K requests / month. Custom domains are $25/mo for 2 domains (max).

Pricing Change History

Kong

No recorded pricing changes for Kong.

Zuplo

reduced discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high impact
The free tier now has a limit of 100K requests/month, not 1M. The free tier also does not include custom domains. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Zuplo's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗

Watch Both Vendors for Pricing Changes

We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.

curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Kong curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Kong curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Zuplo curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Zuplo

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