Comparison
Kong vs rea
rea has more GitHub stars (266,617 vs 44,270). rea was updated more recently (last commit 6h ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Kong
The API and AI Gateway
$
git clone https://github.com/Kong/kong
rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
$
npx -y rea-agents@latest analyze-javascript-application /absolute/path/to/app --json| Metric | Kong | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 44,270 | 266,617 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | n/a |
| Forks | 5,236 | 66,955 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Lua | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 6h ago |
| Created | Nov 2014 | Apr 2026 |
| Categories | Dev tools, Cloud & infra, AI & LLM tooling | AI & LLM tooling, Memory & knowledge |