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Kong

The AI connectivity platform for platform builders

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Kong is a unified platform for managing API, AI, and event traffic across cloud-native and agentic environments. It addresses fragmentation in how organizations secure, govern, and observe connectivity for APIs, LLMs, MCP servers, agents, and real-time data streams, bringing these under a single management layer.

The platform includes Kong Gateway (API gateway), Kong AI Gateway, an event gateway, and a Developer Portal with an MCP registry. Kong Konnect provides a control plane for provisioning and governing gateway infrastructure across runtimes and protocols, with support for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Capabilities include API lifecycle management, agent building and orchestration, unified observability and analytics, automated guardrails via Admin API, decK, Kubernetes operator, or Terraform, and usage-based metering and entitlements for monetization. Insomnia supports API design, testing, and discovery.

Kong targets platform engineers, developers, SREs, and API product managers building developer platforms and agentic infrastructure. Konnect offers a free plan to get started, with additional capabilities available through demos and contact with sales; specific editions and pricing models are not detailed on these pages.

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