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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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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
Adith S.
Great Control Plane, but Has a Learning Curve
Reviewed on Sep 16, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Kong Konnect is that it gives us one centralized place to manage, secure, and monitor our API gateways across different environments. I also like the separation between the cloud control plane and local data planes, which makes deployment easier without adding latency to our backend traffic. Setting up things like OAuth2, rate limiting, and mTLS using the available plugins is also quite straightforward. The service catalog and Developer Portal are useful as well, especially when multiple teams are working with different APIs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting onboarded took longer than expected because the documentation mixes Konnect cloud concepts with self-hosted Kong Gateway setup, which caused some initial confusion. The user interface can also occasionally feel sluggish when managing large numbers of services and routes. Finally, the pricing jumps quite a bit between tiers once your API call volume begins scaling up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We struggled with inconsistent API security and manual gateway maintenance across distributed environments. Kong Konnect centralized our API management into a single dashboard, allowing us to enforce global security policies, authentication, and rate-limiting seamlessly. This has freed up valuable developer hours from managing infrastructure, improved our API uptime, and made onboarding new services much faster.
Jaydeepkumar R.
Centralized API Traffic Visibility That Makes Debugging and Testing Easier
Reviewed on Sep 10, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
From a testing perspective, having a centralized layer to observe API traffic has made it much easier to debug failed test runs. I can see exactly which requests and responses passed through, instead of having to dig through individual service logs. The rate-limiting and throttling plugins have also been useful for load and stress testing scenarios, and the request/response transformation plugins make it easier to simulate different payloads for stronger negative test coverage.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is pretty steep if you’re coming from a QA background without much infrastructure exposure—concepts like services, routes, and plugins take time to get comfortable with. Automating tests against the gateway also adds some friction, since you have to manage auth tokens and consumer credentials just to get CI pipelines running smoothly. The documentation tends to lean more toward admin-focused use cases as well, which leaves a noticeable gap when you’re looking for QA-specific workflows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s given us a single, consistent place to validate authentication and security policies, rather than having to test each API’s custom implementation separately, which was often inconsistent and time-consuming. Because traffic flows through one observable layer, integration issues show up earlier, and we’ve seen fewer flaky test failures caused by mismatched rate-limiting or authentication behavior across environments.
Trupti S.
Strong API Security and Centralized Authentication That Saves Time
Reviewed on Sep 10, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The API security and authentication features are the strongest part of the platform for us. Setting up OAuth, API key policies, and rate limiting per consumer has given us a much tighter grip on who's accessing what across our services. Managing auth centrally instead of building it into every individual API has saved a lot of duplicated effort, and the audit trial for API access has been genuinely useful when troubleshooting or reviewing security posture.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is steep, especially early on. There is lot of terminology and moving pieces (services, routes, plugins consumes) that take time to fully understand, and the initial setup wasn't as intuitive as I expected. Documentation helps, but getting the security policies configured exactly right the first time took more trial and error that I'd have liked. It would benefit from clearer guided setup for common auth scenarios.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before adopting Konnect, authentication and authorization logic was inconsistent across our APIs, with each service handling it slightly different, which made auditing and securing everything harder. Centralizing auth policies through Konnect has given us consistent security enforcement across the board, reduced the risk of gaps or misconfigurations, and made onboarding new APIs into our ecosystem significantly faster since the security groundwork is already standardized.
Mansi N.
Solid API Gateway with Easy Traffic Management and Great Visibility
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The API gateway and traffic management side of things has been solid for us. Rate limiting, load balancing, and routing rules are straightforward to configure once you get the hang of the platform, and it scales well without a lot of babysitting. The centralized visibility into API traffic across services has made it much easier to spot issues before they become bigger problems. Onboarding new APIs into the gateway is fairly quick once the initial setup is done.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support response time has been the main pain point for us. When we've run into issues that actually needed help (not just documentation lookups), turnaround has been slower than I'd like, especially for anything time-sensitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Konnect, managing traffic and rate limits across our APIs was scattered and inconsistent, which made troubleshooting slow and error-prone. Having a single place to manage gateway policies has cut down the time we spend chasing down traffic issues and given us much better visibility into what's actually happening across our API layer. It's made scaling our API infrastructure less of a headache overall.
Kirpalsinh R.
Centralized API governance and sub-millisecond proxy routing for microservices
Reviewed on Sep 03, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Managing API routing across a distributed microservices environment requires strict consistency, and Kong Konnect's hybrid architecture handles this exceptionally well. The SaaS control plane provides a unified view for configuring services, while the self-hosted data plane instances run locally near our Kubernetes workloads to keep proxy latency negligible. Implementing edge concerns—such as OAuth2 token validation, rate-limiting, and request transformation—via out-of-the-box plugins offloads significant overhead from our application code. Furthermore, managing the gateway state declaratively using the decK CLI seamlessly integrates into our GitOps pipelines, making deployment changes across staging and production environments predictable and fully version-controlled.
What do you dislike about the product?
Developing custom plugin logic still requires working with Lua or building WebAssembly modules, which introduces extra friction for development teams accustomed to higher-level languages like Python or Go. When troubleshooting synchronization mismatches between the SaaS management console and self-hosted runtime groups, navigating low-level proxy logs to isolate SSL certificate or schema errors can be time-consuming. Additionally, licensing costs scale up quickly as request throughput and the number of active runtime instances expand across enterprise environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It eliminates fragmented traffic management and inconsistent security policies across independent backend services. Prior to adopting the gateway, individual teams implemented their own authentication layers and throttling mechanisms, creating maintenance debt and audit risks. Centralizing policy enforcement at the gateway level establishes uniform security standards across all endpoints while freeing developers to focus entirely on domain-specific business logic.