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Kong Konnect

Unified API and AI gateway platform — secure, manage, and accelerate LLM, MCP, event, and API traffic in one place.

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Quick facts
What is it	Unified API and AI gateway platform — secure, manage, and accelerate LLM, MCP, event, and API traffic in one place.
Pricing	Freemium
Free tier	Yes
Platform	Web Application
API	Yes
Best for	Managing and securing AI agent traffic across multiple LLMs, Unifying API design, testing, publishing, and monetization
Domain registered	2017

Data updated Sept. 19, 2026

What does Kong Konnect do?

Kong Konnect is a unified API and AI connectivity platform designed to help organizations build, run, and govern AI agents and APIs. It brings together API design, testing, publishing, and monetization into a single platform, while also addressing the growing need to manage AI traffic securely and efficiently.

The platform focuses on what Kong calls the "context economy," where AI agents rely on enterprise context to function effectively. Kong Konnect provides tools to secure, manage, speed up, monetize, and cost-control every LLM, MCP, event, and API request. This includes features like usage-based metering and billing, which help organizations track and monetize AI usage, and an AI Gateway that connects AI models with enterprise data and services.

Kong Konnect is best suited for development teams, platform engineers, and organizations deploying AI agents or managing complex API ecosystems. It helps teams unify their AI cost, security, and risk posture, making it easier to scale AI initiatives without losing control. Whether you're building AI-powered applications or managing a large API portfolio, Kong Konnect offers a centralized approach to handle both traditional APIs and the new wave of AI connectivity.

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Key features

What makes it stand out

AI Gateway: Connects AI models with enterprise context, enabling secure and intelligent AI agent traffic management

Usage-based metering and billing: Tracks and monetizes API and AI usage with granular cost control

Unified API platform: Combines API design, testing, publishing, and monetization in one place

Event Gateway: Manages event-driven architectures alongside traditional API traffic

Multi-model support: Handles LLM, MCP, event, and API requests through a single unified interface

Who is Kong Konnect for?

Who benefits most from this tool

Managing and securing AI agent traffic across multiple LLMs

Unifying API design, testing, publishing, and monetization

Controlling costs and governance for AI and API requests

Pricing

Free tier available — start without a credit card

Free trial

Free

30 trial days
No limits for 30 days gateway limits
No costs for 30 days AI gateway model proxy limit
Enterprise functionality — for free — for 30 days
No Gateway limits
Analytics retained for 30 days

Plus

Custom

Up to 5 Serverless, 2 Hybrid, 2 Dedicated Cloud gateways
$100/month per model AI gateway model proxy limit
Up to 5 Serverless Gateways
Up to 2 Hybrid Gateways
Up to 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways
API, protocol, and service support: REST APIs, HTTP APIs, LLMs, Kafka, WebSockets, gRPC, GraphQL
AI Gateway: Unlimited agents for agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic, Universal LLM API with up to 5 unique LLM models, Unlimited MCP server proxies, PII sanitization and prompt guardrails, LLM access control and auth, Cost Control: Token-based rate limiting and semantic caching, AI Observability: Token-level tracking and real-time cost analytics
API Developer Portal: Up to 2 Developer Portals

Enterprise

Custom

No Gateway limits
No premium service limits
Enterprise-grade API platform security and controls

Trust & presence

Domain Domain registered 2017

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