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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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Overview
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 |
|---|---|---|
Pay as you go | Usage metered in Konnect, invoiced monthly per https://konghq.com/pricing. | $0.01 |
Dimensions summary
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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Support Channels
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
For assistance with subscription issues, onboarding, troubleshooting, or refund requests, please submit a ticket through the support portal.
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Customer reviews
Hema G.
Good platform to manage APIs at scale.
Reviewed on Aug 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Integration across Kong Enterprise features
One thing I like best about Konnect is that it centralizes how we manage APIs. We have several teams splitting their time across different services. Having one place to manage gateways, APIs, and access is very helpful. I also like how developers can self-serve a good amount of what they need without having to rely on the platform team.
One thing I like best about Konnect is that it centralizes how we manage APIs. We have several teams splitting their time across different services. Having one place to manage gateways, APIs, and access is very helpful. I also like how developers can self-serve a good amount of what they need without having to rely on the platform team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting Konnect up is not as simple as pressing a button. We had to spend a decent amount of time thinking through how we wanted things structured. This was especially true for team organization, permissions, and separating out environments. Other pieces also feel overcomplicated for simple tasks. Once you get accustomed to using it though, it becomes easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lots of API work was done in teams silos and it was hard to standardize. Konnect has allowed us to clean this up. We have better visibility into our APIs. What APIs are running, who owns them, and how they are configured. We've also seen a reduction in repeated requests to the platform team.
Hemanshi G.
Kong Konnect Makes API Consumption Easier with Clear Dev Portal Docs and Faster Loads
Reviewed on Aug 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Working mostly on the front end, I mainly interact with the APIs Kong Konnect manages, and it's made life easier just from a consumption side. The dev portal gives clear docs for each endpoint, so I am not constantly pinging the backend team to ask what a field means or what status code to expect. Response caching set up ay the gateway level has also helped page load times noticeably on some of our data-heavy views without us touchinh the frontend code at all.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when an API call fails, the error message coming back through the gateway is a bit generic, so I still have to loop in a backend dev to figure out the actual cause. It would help if error responses gave a bit more context by default.
Also, the interface takes a little getting used to if you are not the one managing configs day to day.
Also, the interface takes a little getting used to if you are not the one managing configs day to day.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before, if an endpoint changed or broke, I'd usually find out the hard way when something on the UI stopped working. Since routing and monitoring got centralized through Kong, issue on the API side get caught and flagged before they trickle down to the frontend. That's meant fewer suprise bugs showing up in the parts of the app I am responsible for.
rakshita s.
Centralized API Management with Helpful Analytics
Reviewed on Aug 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
For me, the biggest advantage is having one centralized place to manage APIs, security policies, routing, and monitoring. The analytics are also useful because they help me quickly spot performance issues and better understand how our APIs are being used.
What do you dislike about the product?
There’s a bit of a learning curve for new users, and some of the more advanced settings can take a while to fully understand and configure. I also think the documentation could be more detailed in a few areas to make those parts easier to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps address the complexity of managing APIs across different environments by consolidating management, security, and monitoring into a single platform. As a result, we get clearer visibility into API performance, troubleshooting is more straightforward, and there’s less manual effort involved in coordinating and maintaining multiple services.
Nevil M.
Smooth Onboarding with Strong RBAC, Workspaces, and API Version Control
Reviewed on Aug 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Onboarding a new team onto Kong Konnect has been smoother than I expected. RBAC and workspace separation let different team manage their own services without stepping on each other, which matters a lot once you scale past a handful of squads. Version control for APIs is also solid - rolling back a bad config change takes seconds instead of a whole incident response. CI/CD integration was straightforward too, so pushing gateway config changes through our existing pipeline didn't need a separate process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support response times can vary depending on the issue's complexity - simple questions get answered fast, but anything touching hybrid mode sync took longer than I'd like. Also, when we hit a scaling point with a larger number of consumers and routes, the dashboard started feeling a bit sluggish. Nothing that broke functionality, just slower load times that added friction to daily use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had API logic scattered across multiple services, with each team handling auth and rate limiting differently. That made audits painful and caused inconsistent behavior between environments. Moving that logic into Kong Konnect gave us one place to enforce policies, so new services inherit the same standards from day one instead of us chasing teams to fix gaps later. It's also made incident response faster - when something breaks, we check the gateway logs first instead of digging through five different codebases to find where a request failed.
Klodia L.
Centralized Hybrid & Multi-Cloud API Management Made Simple with Kong Konnect
Reviewed on Aug 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
As a Kong Konnect customer, what stands out most to me is the centralized API management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. That’s probably the biggest win for us. We run gateways on-prem as well as in AWS and GCP, and Konnect gives us a single control plane to manage everything without having to stitch together separate tools for each environment. The hybrid deployment model—control plane in Konnect, data planes wherever we need them—also strikes a great balance: we get the convenience of SaaS while still keeping control over where our traffic actually flows.
What do you dislike about the product?
Here’s a fair rundown of the main pain points. Pricing and cost predictability: Konnect’s pricing model, which is based on API calls and service consumption, can get expensive and is a bit difficult to forecast as usage scales—especially compared to running a self-managed Kong Gateway OSS. For smaller teams or for workloads with unpredictable traffic patterns, costs can rise faster than you’d expect, which makes budgeting and planning harder.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problem: Fragmented API management across hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructure.
Before Konnect, our APIs and gateways were spread across multiple environments, and we didn’t have a single, consistent way to manage, monitor, or secure them. Konnect gives us one control plane for everything, so we’re not duplicating work or losing visibility when traffic moves between environments.
Before Konnect, our APIs and gateways were spread across multiple environments, and we didn’t have a single, consistent way to manage, monitor, or secure them. Konnect gives us one control plane for everything, so we’re not duplicating work or losing visibility when traffic moves between environments.