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Unified API and AI platform to secure, manage, and govern APIs, LLMs, MCP, and event streams across any cloud with native AWS integration.
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Kong Konnect is the unified API and AI platform, delivered as a service, that manages Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Event Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Mesh. A single management console delivers API policy configuration, developer portals, service catalog, tracing, analytics, and AI governance capabilities.
Trusted by Leading Enterprises
Organizations like United Airlines, HSBC, BMW, DELTA Fiber, and SeatGeek rely on Kong Konnect to power their API and AI infrastructure. Kong processes over 1 trillion API and AI requests per day, supports 182,000+ community users worldwide, and delivers a 99.99% availability SLA.
- SeatGeek routes 2.4 billion requests per month through Kong Konnect for AI-era innovation at scale.
- HSBC achieved 50% faster time-to-market with unified API management.
- BMW scales without limits with faster, more secure infrastructure.
- DELTA Fiber reduced development costs by 60%.
Performance and Scale
Kong Gateway delivers sub-millisecond latency and handles millions of tokens and API calls per second. The platform is built for hyperscale workloads with elastic scaling, automatic upgrades, and zero-downtime deployments.
AWS Integration
- Securely hosted in AWS in multiple regions.
- Fully-managed Cloud Gateways support connectivity via VPC Peering or Transit Gateway, Route53, and Private Hosted Zones.
- Hybrid deployments fully support EKS, ECS Fargate, and EC2. Native support for AWS Lambda calls.
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Kong Konnect Plus offers a free 30-day trial so you can evaluate the platform hands-on. Book a demo with an API expert or start your free trial to experience the platform immediately.
Use Case: Securing and Governing AI Traffic at Scale
A digital ticketing platform routes billions of monthly requests - including LLM inference calls from multiple AI providers - through Kong Konnect's unified policy layer. Teams enforce token budgets per department, apply semantic caching to reduce redundant LLM calls, and gain real-time observability into AI usage and costs. This approach enables organizations in financial services, healthcare, retail, and technology to adopt AI responsibly while maintaining compliance and controlling costs.
Benefits
- Reduce Operational Complexity: Deploy and manage multiple API, Event, and AI gateways, ingress controllers, and service meshes through a unified control plane. Reduce operational costs by up to 57%.
- Federate Governance at Scale: Enforce consistency, compliance, governance, and observability at scale while promoting collaboration across teams.
- Manage Full API Lifecycle: Make APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable through self-serve developer portals and service catalogs.
- Implement Robust API Security: Deploy security protocols, authentication policies, and access management without application changes.
- Accelerate AI Adoption: Run and secure LLM traffic with semantic AI plugins. Build production-ready AI applications faster, enforce token budgets, and monitor LLM usage across providers to optimize AI operations.
- Monetize Digital Assets: Set up usage-based metering and billing for APIs and AI products. Launch pricing changes in minutes, not weeks.
Key Features
- Gateway Manager: Provision and monitor all control planes and data plane nodes in one place.
- AI Manager: Unify LLM access from all popular providers - enforce policies, token budgets, caching, and gain insights on generative AI usage.
- Mesh Manager: Create, manage, and view service meshes spanning clusters, clouds, and regions.
- Dedicated Cloud Gateways: Launch fully-managed gateways globally with lower latency and increased security on dedicated infrastructure.
- Dev Portal: Engaging, branded, highly customizable developer portals with first-class discovery, documentation, testing, and API registration.
- Service Catalog: A single source of truth for your organization's service inventory with OWASP and security Scorecards.
- Advanced Analytics: Context-rich insights into your entire API and AI landscape with performance metrics and issue debugging.
- Metering and Billing: Usage-based monetization for API and AI products with runtime entitlement enforcement.
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Highlights
- Beyond API Gateway - a unified platform for APIs, AI, events, agents, and service mesh: Kong Konnect Plus manages all application communication through a single control plane. Proxy API traffic, route LLM requests with token budget enforcement, stream events, and manage service mesh deployments across any environment. Backed by $345.5M in funding and recognized by PeerSpot reviewers for centralized management, low latency, and built-in security.
- Full API lifecycle management with self-service developer experience: From discovery through retirement, manage APIs with integrated developer portals, service catalogs, documentation, and testing. Automate operations with Terraform support, gain visibility with integrated tracing and advanced analytics, and assess best practices with OWASP and operational Scorecards. Start with a free 30-day trial to deploy your first API.
- Flexible AWS-native deployment with fully-managed or self-hosted options: Launch fully-managed Cloud Gateways on dedicated infrastructure that scale elastically with automatic upgrades and no downtime. Or deploy self-hosted data planes on EKS, ECS Fargate, or EC2. Connect via VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, Route53, and Private Hosted Zones with native AWS Lambda support.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
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Pay as you go | Usage metered in Konnect, invoiced monthly per https://konghq.com/pricing. | $0.01 |
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This listing uses a single pay-as-you-go option. You are billed for what you use, with no upfront commitment. Usage is metered inside the Konnect platform and invoiced monthly. The metered units track your API and AI traffic through the platform. Because pricing scales with actual usage, your monthly cost rises or falls with activity. There are no fixed tiers or instance sizes to choose. You can review the per-unit rate details on the vendor pricing page referenced in the dimension.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
Units track your traffic through the platform. This includes API calls and AI tokens. The platform measures each request that passes through the gateway. Traffic is metered inside Konnect and totaled for the monthly invoice. Check the vendor pricing page for the exact rate per unit.
Your cost tracks actual usage. When traffic rises, more units are metered and your monthly invoice grows. When traffic falls, fewer units are counted and the invoice shrinks. There is no minimum commitment and no fixed tier. The change happens automatically based on metered activity.
You pay only for what you use. There is no upfront commitment. The platform meters your usage inside Konnect and invoices you monthly. This model suits variable workloads because charges rise and fall with your actual API and AI traffic rather than a fixed fee.
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Kong provides support through the following channels:
- Support Portal: Submit and track support tickets at https://support.konghq.com/support/s/
- Knowledge Base: Access self-service troubleshooting articles and guides at https://support.konghq.com/support/s/knowledge
- Documentation: Comprehensive platform documentation at https://developer.konghq.com/
Support Policy
Full details on support coverage, severity levels, and response commitments are available in the Kong Support and Maintenance Policy at https://konghq.com/legal/kong-support-and-maintenance-policy
Getting Started
Kong Konnect Plus includes a free 30-day trial. After subscribing through AWS Marketplace, you will be guided through account provisioning and can begin configuring your first gateway. The platform supports fully-managed Cloud Gateways for immediate deployment or self-hosted data planes on EKS, ECS Fargate, or EC2. Full pricing details https://konghq.com/pricing
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Customer reviews
Computer & Network Security
One dashboard for every gateway
Reviewed on Oct 09, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most is the federated model: it gives each team its own gateway while still keeping central governance intact. I manage a few microservices across two environments, and before Konnect I was SSHing into different boxes just to push config changes. Now the SaaS control plane lets me handle everything from a single dashboard. I can spin up a runtime, attach my services, and configure rate limiting and JWT auth through the UI, and it’s live within minutes.
The developer portal is also a quiet win. I publish my APIs as products with OpenAPI specs, and external teams can self-serve onboarding instead of emailing me for credentials. The plugin system is genuinely modular, too—I’ve stacked key-auth, rate-limiting, and response-transforming plugins on the same route without writing a line of custom code.
The developer portal is also a quiet win. I publish my APIs as products with OpenAPI specs, and external teams can self-serve onboarding instead of emailing me for credentials. The plugin system is genuinely modular, too—I’ve stacked key-auth, rate-limiting, and response-transforming plugins on the same route without writing a line of custom code.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is that the SaaS dependency is a hard requirement, not an option. The control plane lives in Kong’s cloud, which means that if their service has an outage, you can’t push config changes. For some enterprises, sending API metadata to a third-party cloud is a dealbreaker on its own.
The learning curve is also steeper than it needs to be. The difference between a “runtime group,” a “service,” a “route,” and a “target” takes a few sessions to click, and the docs often read like you already know the Kong Gateway CLI.
The learning curve is also steeper than it needs to be. The difference between a “runtime group,” a “service,” a “route,” and a “target” takes a few sessions to click, and the docs often read like you already know the Kong Gateway CLI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong Konnect solves the problem of managing API gateways across multiple environments without manual config pushes. Before it, every time I needed to update a rate limit or add an auth plugin, I was SSHing into individual gateway nodes and applying changes one by one—slow, error-prone, and hard to audit. Now the SaaS control plane syncs configuration to all runtimes in seconds from a single dashboard, and I can see exactly what changed and when.
The developer portal also cuts down the whole “email me your API keys” cycle. External teams can self-serve onboarding, which saves me a lot of back-and-forth.
The developer portal also cuts down the whole “email me your API keys” cycle. External teams can self-serve onboarding, which saves me a lot of back-and-forth.
Computer Software
Centralized API & AI Gateway Management That Fits Our Workflow
Reviewed on Oct 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Kong Connect gives us a central layer for managing APIs while still fitting into our workflow. We mainly use it with our MCP server, and having the APIs set up so we can manage policies via Kong makes it easier for us to keep the integration controlled, instead of handling everything separately. The AI gateway part is also useful because it can manage authentication and our token usage across all services, rather than adding the same logic to each individual service. Overall, it helps us make better sense of the traffic.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took me a long time to understand the nuances of the product and get used to it. A few concepts, such as routes, services, and plugins, also take time to piece together.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our multiple backend AI integrations can be managed securely through the AI Gateway concept by Kong. We also have a couple of services that can be isolated, rather than running in the same gateway, so if one fails we still have another. In addition, the MCP and Claude workflows are managed smoothly, and we can monitor traffic, which gives us better visibility from the API layer.
JAY PRAKASH S.
Centralized API Gateway for Microservice Development
Reviewed on Oct 07, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I evaluated Kong Konnect as an API management and gateway solution for our Fulfillment Innovation Technology (FIT) project, which follows a microservice-based architecture. With multiple backend services, managing API routing, authentication, traffic control, and access policies individually in each service can become difficult to maintain. Kong Konnect provides a centralized layer in front of the backend services. It can handle requests coming from clients and route them to the appropriate service based on the configured routes and services. This is useful because the backend Spring Boot services can focus more on business logic instead of implementing the same API management functionality repeatedly. I also found features such as authentication, rate limiting, logging, and plugins useful for a microservice environment. These capabilities can be managed at the gateway level and applied consistently across different APIs. As the number of services increases, having a centralized API management layer makes the overall architecture easier to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main area I think could be improved is the initial learning curve. There are several concepts to understand, including services, routes, plugins, authentication, policies, and configuration. For someone who is new to API gateways, it can take some time to understand how these different components work together. For a project with only a few APIs, Kong Konnect can also feel like more infrastructure than what is necessary. However, for a larger microservice architecture such as FIT, the additional setup can provide more value because there are more APIs and common requirements to manage. I think the onboarding experience could be improved with more beginner-friendly, end-to-end examples. A sample Spring Boot microservice application showing routing, authentication, rate limiting, and plugins together would make it much easier for new users to understand the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the main problems Kong Konnect can solve is the complexity of managing APIs across multiple microservices. In a project like FIT, different services may expose different APIs, and managing authentication, routing, traffic limits, and access policies separately can lead to duplicated configuration and logic. Kong provides a centralized place to manage these concerns. For example, routing rules can determine which backend service should receive a request, while authentication can provide a common security layer for APIs. Rate limiting can also help control excessive traffic and protect backend services from unnecessary load. Another benefit is consistency. Instead of implementing similar API-related functionality in every Spring Boot service, common requirements can be handled at the gateway level. This makes the services more focused on their actual business responsibilities and can make the overall system easier to maintain as the number of microservices grows.
Computer Software
Centralized API Gateway with Strong Auth, Rate Limiting, and Traffic Visibility
Reviewed on Oct 05, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The centralized layer for managing APIs—and handling auth and rate-limiting policies across different services—can be managed at the gateway level. Especially with the AI gateway for MCP servers, it’s good for consistent authentication, traffic control, and isolation across all my apps. The visibility into API traffic is also a great feature; when I’m working with different integrations, troubleshooting becomes much easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
There was a gap in the learning curve when I was getting started. There are a lot of concepts around services, routes, plugins, and consumers, and understanding how all of this fits together takes time. The UI is good overall, but it can feel a tad dense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It compares fairly well with integrations managed across different services. For MCP based integrations, having them as part of the same application stack with a common gateway layer makes it easier to apply auth, rate limiting, and monitoring especially for AI usage by individuals. Having a gateway in front of services also provides a common layer that others can reuse, with most of the setup already in place.
kathy b.
Kong Gateway Delivers Scalable API Performance with Insightful Analytics
Reviewed on Oct 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Definitely Kong Gateway, since it’s delivered solid API performance for us at scale. Another standout is the analytics feature, which gives me genuinely useful numbers to bring into client conversations. The integrations also fit smoothly with our existing ecosystem, so it’s been easy to align with what we already use. Support is especially valuable when an account has a more complex setup and needs extra attention. Overall, ROI is much easier to explain and discuss when API usage is clearly visible.
What do you dislike about the product?
It’s a great platform to start with, but over time the UI can feel a bit dense, especially when you’re managing multiple services. Pricing can also be disruptive, since it often requires detailed, account-level discussions to sort out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API traffic was starting to raise performance concerns for us, especially during peak usage. Kong Gateway helped by giving us stronger traffic control and clearer visibility, which made it easier to manage those workloads. At the same time, our growing AI services were increasing the number of APIs we needed to monitor. Kong’s AI Gateway gave the team a more structured way to handle those AI integrations, and in the end everything worked out perfectly.