# AI Connectivity
Secure, manage, speed up, monetize, and cost-control every LLM, MCP, event, and API request.
## Cloud Native
### Moving from an API call economy…
The API call dominated the cloud-native era. We helped you become an API-first company.
## Agentic AI
### …to a token economy
Now the token is king. We'll help you build, run, and govern agents to win this new landscape.
## Fragmentation drives AI failure
Get un-fragmented. Unify your AI cost, security, and risk posture with Kong.
Build, deploy, and run agentic infrastructure in a single developer workspace.
Eliminate critical security and resilience risks across the entire AI data path.
Monetize agent context, and do what it takes to win the new context economy.
## The AI connectivity platform
Build agents. Orchestrate context. Govern APIs, events, and data access. All in one unified API, AI, and event management platform.
## Agentic AI Management
**Build fast, safe, cost-effective agents**
Build and test agents. Connect them with intelligence and enterprise context.
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**Speed:** Use pre-built policies to connect agents with intelligence and context
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**Cost:** Optimize context handling and token consumption
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**Risk:** Standardize your approach to agent resilience and access control
## API Management
**Manage the entire API lifecycle**
Everything from API design and testing to publishing and monetization. All in one platform.
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**Speed**: Reduce time to API onboarding and drive API reuse
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**Cost**: Stand up internal API chargeback and drive max cost efficiency
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**Risk**: Enforce access control and threat protection for every API, everywhere
## Event Management
**Open up real-time data for real-time agents**
Standardize how you integrate agents and applications with real-time data streams.
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**Speed**: Speed up dev cycles through self-serve access to real-time data
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**Cost**: Eliminate redundant broker infrastructure, and lower overall infra costs
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**Risk**: Offload auth, encryption, failover, and more to the Gateway
## API + AI Monetization
**Govern costs & monetize digital assets**
Optimize token consumption, and monetize consumption of intelligence and context.
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**Speed: **Make and launch pricing changes in minutes — not weeks
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**Cost**: Set up entitlements, and enforce limits at runtime
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**Risk**: Don’t let runway AI costs get in the way of continued AI innovation
## Developer Productivity
**Design, test, and produce agentic workflows**
Package high-quality, high-trust digital assets for agent and developer consumption.
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**Speed**: Speed up agentic development with self-serve API and MCP discovery
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**Cost**: Publish monetized API and AI products in the self-serve Developer Portal
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**Risk**: Test for critical quality, security, and resilience risks
## The best startups and enterprises unleashing AI through APIs
Discover how innovative teams like yours are changing the game with their API and AI strategies.
10M
API Keys generated
+1T
API & AI requests/day
Tokens and Calls per second
Reduce operational costs by 57%
99.99%
availability SLA
+182K
community users around the world
## Kong AI Connectivity Company FAQs
Questions teams ask before scaling AI past the demo
What is Kong’s AI connectivity platform?
Kong’s AI connectivity platform unifies API, AI, and event management so organizations can connect AI to enterprise systems and context, govern how users and agents access and interact with those resources, and operate AI reliably at scale. It provides a unified platform to secure, manage, observe, and optimize interactions across agents, models, MCP servers, APIs, data, applications, and events.
What is an AI Gateway?
An AI gateway provides a centralized control layer for AI traffic, connecting applications and agents to LLMs, AI services, and enterprise data. Kong AI Gateway helps teams secure, govern, route, observe, and optimize AI traffic across models and providers.
How does Kong AI Gateway apply API management principles to AI workloads?
Kong brings proven API management principles such as security, traffic management, governance, and observability to AI workloads. Kong AI Gateway is purpose-built for AI traffic, with capabilities for model access and routing, AI-specific security and governance, token usage and cost management, observability, and resilience across models and providers.
What is AI governance, and how does Kong support it?
AI governance establishes controls over how AI is accessed and used across an organization. Kong helps organizations govern interactions across users, agents, models, MCP servers, tools, APIs, data, and applications by establishing who or what is acting, controlling what they can access, and enforcing consistent security, usage, token, and resilience policies at runtime.
How does Kong help teams secure AI and API traffic?
Kong helps unify security and risk policy enforcement across API, AI, and real-time event traffic through access controls, API threat protection, and standardized agent resilience policies.
How does Kong help organizations deploy and operate AI agents?
Kong provides the infrastructure organizations need to connect, govern, and operate AI agents in the enterprise, regardless of the frameworks or models used to build them. Kong enables agents to discover and access approved models, APIs, tools, data, and events, while applying identity, access, security, traffic management, observability, and cost controls to agent interactions at runtime.
Can AI agents access real-time enterprise data through Kong?
Yes. Kong Event Gateway standardizes how agents and applications connect to real-time data streams. It provides self-service access to that data while handling authentication, encryption, and failover at the gateway.
How can Kong help control and optimize AI costs?
Kong helps organizations understand, attribute, control, and optimize AI spend. Teams can track costs across models and providers, attribute spend to users, teams, applications, agents, projects, or customers, and establish budgets and usage controls. Kong also helps reduce costs through capabilities such as semantic and prompt caching, prompt compression, intelligent model routing, and reasoning controls, while measuring savings and identifying additional optimization opportunities.
How does Kong support MCP and AI agent connectivity?
Kong helps teams securely discover, connect, and govern connectivity to MCP servers and AI agents. Teams can apply consistent policies to MCP traffic, control access to tools and context, and manage MCP alongside their existing APIs and AI infrastructure.
Can I monetize APIs and AI services with Kong?
Yes. Kong supports monetizing consumption of APIs, intelligence, and context through usage-based metering and billing. Teams can launch pricing changes in minutes, configure entitlements, and enforce consumption limits at runtime.
How does Kong support developer productivity?
Kong supports API design and testing, agentic workflow development, and self-service API and MCP discovery. Teams can publish monetized API and AI products in the Developer Portal and test digital assets for quality, security, and resilience risks.
How can I evaluate Kong’s AI connectivity platform?
You can try Kong Konnect free or book a demo to explore the platform with Kong’s team. Product documentation is also available to help technical evaluators review the platform’s capabilities.