# AI Governance
Secure, observe, and enforce policy on every LLM call, MCP request, agent workflow, and AI-powered API. One platform. One control plane.
## The GenAI era
### From governing single-model AI…
First-generation AI governance meant securing prompt-response pairs and rate-limiting single LLM calls. Necessary, but not enough for what's coming.
## The Agentic era
### …to governing autonomous AI at enterprise scale
Agents call tools. Tools call APIs. APIs access data. Every hop is a governance decision. Kong governs the entire chain, from agent intent to downstream action, with security, cost controls, and compliance at every layer.
## Ungoverned AI is unsafe AI
84% of enterprises see a 6%+ gross margin hit from AI spend. Kong unifies governance across every model, agent, and protocol.
## Fragmented API & AI traffic
## APIs. LLMs. Agents. One platform for API and AI traffic.
Enforce security, cost, and access policies from a single control plane. Ship AI with governance built in.
PII sanitization, prompt guards, content moderation, and zero-trust access on every AI call.
Token-level metering, cost attribution by team and application, and real-time budget enforcement.
## Unified AI governance platform
Secure agents. Control costs. Enforce compliance. Observe every AI interaction across your enterprise. All in one platform.
## AI Security & Compliance
**Enforce automated AI security guardrails**
Standardize security policies across every LLM provider, MCP server, and agent workflow. PII sanitization, prompt guards, and content moderation enforced at the infrastructure layer, not left to individual developers.
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**Speed:** Pre-built security policies deploy in minutes. No custom code per model or provider.
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**Cost:** Offload security from dev teams to the gateway. One policy engine replaces dozens of custom implementations.
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**Risk:** PII never reaches an LLM. Prompt injection blocked before it hits the model. Full audit trail for every request.
## Token Cost Governance
**Attribute, enforce, and optimize AI spend**
Token-level metering across 100+ models. Real-time cost attribution down to the user, team, and prompt. Set budgets. Enforce limits. Stop margin erosion before the invoice lands.
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**Speed**: Launch internal chargeback models in minutes, not weeks. Real-time dashboards out of the box.
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**Cost**: Semantic caching reduces redundant LLM calls. Token budgets enforce limits at runtime.
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**Risk**: No more forecast misses. 1 in 4 teams miss AI cost forecasts by 50%+. Kong enforces limits before overruns happen.
## Agentic AI Governance
**Control what agents can access and do**
Agents need APIs, data, and MCP servers to function. Kong governs what they access, how much they consume, and whether they comply with your policies. Context Mesh lets platform teams create governed MCP servers from existing Konnect APIs with drag-and-drop. Every agent interaction is logged, rate-limited, and auditable.
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**Context Mesh**: drag-and-drop governed MCP servers from existing Konnect APIs. Production-ready in under 24 hours.
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**Cost**: Rate-limit agent token consumption. Prevent runaway costs from autonomous workflows.
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**Risk**: Zero-trust access control on every MCP server. Agents only reach the resources you approve.
## AI Observability
**Debug, trace, and govern every AI interaction in production**
One pane of glass for every LLM call, agent workflow, MCP request, and API transaction. Trace a single agent request from intent to tool call to downstream API. Know who is consuming AI services, how they perform, and where costs are concentrating.
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**Speed: **Pre-built dashboards and AI-specific analytics. Trace agent workflows without custom instrumentation.
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**Cost**: Identify cost concentration by consumer, model, and application. Optimize where it matters.
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**Risk**: Detect anomalies, shadow usage, and policy violations in real time. Audit-ready logs for compliance.
## Regulatory Readiness
**Meet AI regulations with infrastructure, not spreadsheets**
EU AI Act, SOC 2, HIPAA, FHIR, PSD2. Kong captures every AI interaction with full request/response logging, consent tracking, and access control. Compliance is a platform capability, not a quarterly scramble.
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**Speed**: Compliance policies deploy alongside AI services. No separate audit process.
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**Cost**: Automate compliance evidence generation. Reduce manual audit prep by weeks.
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**Risk**: EU AI Act requires audit trails for high-risk AI systems by August 2026. Kong captures them by default.
## How enterprises govern AI at scale with Kong
The world's most regulated industries trust Kong to secure, observe, and control their AI infrastructure.
The partnership with Kong has definitely gone beyond technology. We launched an operational resiliency program, and the outcomes from that have become a model for vendor management across other areas of the bank.
Easwaran Neelakandan
Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure Platforms, HSBC
50%
faster time-to-market
10M
API keys governing access to AI services
+1T
API & AI requests governed per day
37B
LLM API calls processed through Kong
Reduce operational costs by 57%
99.99%
availability SLA for governed AI infrastructure
900+
enterprise customers trusting Kong for AI and API governance