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Kong Konnect is the unified API management platform delivered as a service that can manage Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Mesh with a single management console to deliver API configuration, portal, service catalog, and analytics capabilities.
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Overview
Kong Konnect is the unified API management platform delivered as a service that can manage Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Mesh with a single management console to deliver API configuration, portal, service catalog, and analytics capabilities.
Benefits:
*Reduce Operational Complexity: Deploy and manage multiple gateways, ingress controllers, and service meshes through a unified control plane.
*Federate Governance at Scale: Enforce consistency, compliance, governance, and observability at scale while promoting collaboration.
*Manage Full API Lifecycle: Make APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable. And tap into the power of the world's fastest API gateway.
*Implement Robust API Security: Deploy security protocols, authentication policies, access management and operational insights without increasing platform's footprint.
Key Features:
*Gateway Manager: Catalog, connect to, and monitor the status of all control planes and data plane nodes in one place.
*Mesh Manager: Create, manage, and view Kong Mesh service meshes across multiple deployments and zones using the Konnect platform.
*API Products: Bundle and manage multiple services to accelerate API consumption.
*Dev Portal: Browse APIs, reference documentation, test endpoints, and register APIs through a unified and customizable API portal.
*Service Hub: Create a single source of truth for your organization's service inventory.
*Analytics: Use Analytics to gain deep insights into service, route, and application usage and health monitoring data.
For custom pricing, EULA, or a private contract, please contact Kong at amazon@konghq.com .
Highlights
- Reduce operational overhead through a hosted, unified control plane to manage gateways and ingress controllers. Less complexity, more flexibility.
- Speed up time to market by making APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable. And tap into the power of the world's fastest API gateway.
- Automate robust security through zero-trust security and develop operational insight into security related events and usage patterns.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Enterprise - AWS | 10 Services, 100 million API requests, Business Level Support only | $30,000.00 |
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Unified Control Plane Management
Single management console to manage Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Mesh across multiple deployments and zones.
API Lifecycle Management
Capabilities to make APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable through API Products bundling, Dev Portal with documentation and testing, and Service Hub for service inventory.
Zero-Trust Security Framework
Implementation of zero-trust security protocols, authentication policies, and access management with operational insights into security-related events and usage patterns.
Multi-Gateway Monitoring and Catalog
Gateway Manager functionality to catalog, connect to, and monitor the status of all control planes and data plane nodes in a single interface.
Analytics and Observability
Deep insights into service, route, and application usage with health monitoring data and observability capabilities across managed infrastructure.
AI-Powered Data Management
F5 AI Data Fabric enables generation of insights, management, and governance for data from different applications and products across multiple data lakes and data sources.
Multi-Cloud Network Connectivity
Global hub-and-spoke transit orchestration for connecting all cloud properties including public, private, network and edge clouds.
Integrated Security Stack
Unified software stack combining router, load balancer, network firewall, web application firewall (WAF), API security and API gateway capabilities.
Layer 3-7 DDoS Protection
L3-L7 DDoS defense capabilities for protecting applications and APIs deployed across distributed environments.
Unified Management Portal
Single SaaS-based console for SecOps, NetOps, and DevOps to manage and deploy virtual networks, connections, distributed applications, and API security.
API Lifecycle Management
Full lifecycle API management capabilities including creation, management, security, and socialization of APIs across clouds with governance and version control
Data Transformation Policies
Built-in and advanced data transformation policies including XSLT, GatewayScript, and custom policies for API mediation and control
Enterprise-Grade API Gateway
Encrypted gateway with single-tenant isolation option for cloud-native applications and microservices with pre-built security policies
Developer Portal and Community Features
Self-service developer portal with API discovery, exploration, and consumption capabilities including branded customization, blogs, ratings, and forums
API Analytics and Governance
Out-of-the-box dashboards for API ecosystem analysis, insights generation, and identification of monetization opportunities with organized API products and visibility controls
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Customer reviews
Abhijeet P.
Kong Konnect: Simple UI, Seamless SSO, and Strong On-Prem Performance
Reviewed on Mar 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Earlier we were using Kong enterprise and recently we migrated to Kong Konnect, the Konnect is absolutely a good enhancement that we wanted because UI is simple to check DP & CP, i can check all created Gateway's including how many servers are present in the DP. Integration with organization SSO is very seamless without any issues. Also there are plenty of new features for future enhancement like AI gateway and LLM connection. We have deployed CP in our on-prem and performance quite good and it was in ms only by using validations and authentication plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are not major downsides, if we get a screen to deploy custom plugins or build custom plugins then that will be very helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building custom plugins or readymade drag n drop functionality to build custom plugin and developer portal.
Purva S.
Cloud-Native, Secure, and Scalable API Management with Kong Konnect
Reviewed on Mar 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Kong Konnect is its cloud-native architecture and ease of managing APIs from a centralized control plane. It’s user-friendly, integrates well with existing systems, and offers strong security features like authentication and rate limiting. Overall, it’s scalable, efficient, and simplifies API management.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of Kong Konnect is its initial learning curve, especially for beginners. Additionally, pricing can be high for smaller teams, and troubleshooting complex issues may take time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong Konnect solves the complexity of managing APIs across multiple environments by providing a centralized control plane. It simplifies tasks like routing, security, and monitoring, which reduces manual effort and operational overhead. This helps in faster API deployment, better governance, and improved performance, ultimately making API management more efficient and scalable.
Hrushikesh J.
Kong’s Architecture Makes API Security Development Easy
Reviewed on Mar 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Kong architecture and ease in development and designing of API security
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple coding for custom plugin which is time taken
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong is helping me with costing and env stability
reviewer2795847
Routing has become streamlined and security now manages high-traffic backend integrations
Reviewed on Jan 09, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Kong Konnect is routing to different backends and implementing enhanced security. For security purposes in my day-to-day work, we are currently implementing security features that Kong Konnect offers, such as API keys.
What is most valuable?
The best features Kong Konnect offers are ease of use and scalability.
When I mention scalability, it means that when we experience peak traffic, Kong made it easy for us to scale and spawn new machines.
Kong Konnect has positively impacted my organization by making our development easier and helping us push new routes to our current customers. It made development easier because we used to need to deploy the route everywhere, but now we can deploy at once and everything works.
What needs improvement?
Kong Konnect needs improvement in the UI. The fields are unclear about what they do, and the UI for the Dev Portal is rough around the edges.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kong Konnect for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kong Konnect is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is great with Kong Konnect.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Kong Konnect is fantastic, and I have no complaints.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not previously use a different solution.
How was the initial setup?
I was not part of the decision regarding the experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What about the implementation team?
I was not part of the decision regarding the experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with Kong Konnect. Time saved is a relevant metric; it used to take us a week, but now it takes us only a day.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated MuleSoft before choosing Kong Konnect.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Kong Konnect is to try it because it is a great product. I give Kong Konnect a rating of 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
ShahnawazAlam1
Gateway has secured our APIs and provides low latency with detailed logs and tracing
Reviewed on Dec 30, 2025
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
I use Kong Konnect most often as a current gateway. A specific example of how I use Kong Konnect as a current gateway involves onboarding microservices into Kong Konnect where we pass the host map pattern and pass the endpoint in the route path. This is how we are configuring our setup.
What is most valuable?
The best features Kong Konnect offers include security, scalability, and latency, which is the most important to me.
Security, scalability, and load handling are so valuable for me because we have multiple built-in plugins such as open authentication, authentication, OpenID, and basic authentication.
Our features, such as being able to see all the logs and traces by integrating with multiple third-party applications including Jaeger, are worth mentioning.
Kong Konnect has positively impacted our organization by securing our APIs, which is one of the main concerns for us. Securing our APIs has benefited our organization by improving compliance and reducing incidents.
What needs improvement?
I wish Kong Konnect could improve by having a built-in notification system whenever any APIs get pinged so that we can receive alerts and send them to the developer.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kong Konnect for about three and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kong Konnect is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Kong Konnect's scalability is good.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution before Kong Konnect.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that licensing is a bit high in comparison.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing Kong Konnect.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Kong Konnect is to go with it. My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. I gave this product a rating of 10.