The API Platform Powering the API World

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95%

of AI initiatives go nowhere

84%

of companies report AI has eroded gross margins by more than 6%

$4.63M

average cost per Shadow AI breach to enterprises

#1

Cost governance challenge is fragmented visibility

63%

Organizations breached don't have AI governance

86%

Organizations are completely blind to their AI data flows

Kong Konnect Platform

Build

Design, test, and debug the AI fuel that powers AI applications.

Run

Run AI connectivity securely, reliably, and at high performance.

Discover

Make it easy for developers and AI agents to discover the AI resources they need to do their jobs well.

Govern

Ensure visibility and consistent implementation of best practices across the entire lifecycle for your AI connectivity.

Monetize

Establish governable AI cost structures and directly monetize your AI applications and AI fuel as revenue-generating products.

Connect AI with APIs

Build, secure, and manage APIs at scale with enterprise-grade performance.
Explore API Gateway

Connect AI with LLMs

Build a unified, secure, reliable, cost-effective multi-LLM interface for AI agents and MCP servers to interact with LLMs accross the enterprise.

Explore AI Gateway

Connect AI with MCP servers

Design, compose, and run intelligent MCP integration patterns that leverage secure APIs and real-time data as lean, cost-effective tools.

Explore MCP Gateway

Connect AI with event streaming & real-time data

Expose, secure, and productize event data to fuel AI-powered applications with live data and real-time signals.

Explore Event Gateway

Test AI connectivity

Build an AI trust layer with developer-friendly API and MCP design, testing, and debugging.

Explore Insomnia

Productize AI connectivity

Productize APIs, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and event data as self-service, reusable assets for developers and agents.

Explore Developer Portal

Govern AI connectivity

Stand-up cross platform observability, compliance guardrails, cost governance, and control mechanisms for every point of AI connectivity.

Explore Observability

Break silos

United Airlines removed data silos and moved to a cloud native platform to manage thousands of APIs across hundreds of application teams, reducing API onboarding time by 2–3x, reducing latency for mission-critical workloads, and significantly hardening their reliability and security posture.

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Capture maximum innovation potential

SeatGeek centralized LLM request validation at the gateway layer to eliminate the risk of spoofed traffic, avoided the need to duplicate code across more than a dozen microservices, reduced engineering time by 2–3 weeks of development per service, maintained a seamless user experience, and accelerated time-to-market for new capabilities.

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Ship APIs and products faster

Siemens turned Kong into a smart control and observability layer for their event streams. They eliminated the need for decentralized data storage across teams, reduced redundant infrastructure, accelerated integration time by ~70% for new API consumers, and unlocked faster product innovation.

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Ship compliant AI products

H&M pivoted from a fragmented AI governance model to a secure, unified, and scalable platform. They shrunk the onboarding time for new AI services from weeks to days, and rolled out financial oversight. They also reduced LLM operational costs through intelligent routing and centralized rate limiting and 100% centralized logging and auditability for all AI traffic to meet compliance requirements.

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Turn APIs into revenue — not cost — centers

BT Group is streamlining its previously fragmented API ecosystem, making it easier and more cost-effective to adopt emerging technologies, such as generative AI.

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Accelerate your deployment capabilities

Goldman Sachs needed a scalable solution to help balance compliance and speed. With Kong, they're able to speed up development and accelerate new business opportunities.

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CI/CD Integration

Automate the entire API lifecycle as a part of your CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC strategies.

Shift Security

Shift API security left and right through automated API security checkpoints in your CI/CD pipeline.

Deploy Anywhere

Cloud. On-prem. Hybrid. Kong lets you build applications where they operate best.

Customer Success Stories

PEXA Case Study

"Kong is a natural fit for PEXA embarking on the modernization journey. It ticks all the boxes, scalability, security, and self-service, which takes the hassle of managing APIs"