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We want to ensure that our customers know that Kong is not affected by the PyPI LiteLLM incident publicized yesterday. Kong does not rely on LiteLLM — whether PyPI-distributed or otherwise — for any components in our runtime stack. As you may know, a supply chain vulnerability affecting LiteLLM…
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Enterprise product teams are squarely in the throes of a massive shift. New Gartner research crystalized that companies using AI tools for product management are reaping a significant 35% productivity gain and achieving a two to three-year time-to-market advantage over those who wait. In their…
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We’re proud to share that Kong Insomnia has been recognized as a vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for API and MCP Testing Tools in February, 2026. In a rapidly evolving landscape where AI-driven integration and MCP servers are reshaping how APIs are built, tested, and consumed, being recognized…
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We're excited to announce that Kong just took home the AI Innovator of the Year award from SiliconANGLE Media's 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards. SiliconANGLE Media runs this annual awards program to recognize companies, technologies, and people moving the needle in B2B tech. Winners go through a…
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The APIs that have been powering websites and apps created a massive market, but there are only up to 8 billion humans consuming them behind pixels. As LLMs are taking over the world — in the form of productized agents first — there will be 100X more machines than humans. The internet built for…
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Kong is excited to announce Solace as the newest member of our Premium Technology Partner Program, a program designed to deliver high-quality, reliable integrations that provide real business value for customers. Together, Kong and Solace unify API-driven and real-time data movement into a single,…
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Another year is wrapping up, and we’re taking a moment to reflect on what made 2025 a defining year for Kong. With major advances in building the AI connectivity layer and soaring enterprise adoption of agentic systems, this year sparked a hockey-stick surge in demand for the infrastructure that…
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Kong was born to connect. The world is shifting from connecting cloud services with apps to connecting LLMs through agents. API calls and tokens are moving in tandem; a new unit of intelligence is forming. As AI traffic explodes into hypervolumes, speed is all that matters. The same principles of…
[](/blog/news/the-age-of-ai-connectivity)We’re thrilled to share that Kong Konnect, our unified API and AI platform, has been named a winner of Foundry Co.'s InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 in the API Management category. InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data…
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We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 5th Annual Kong Hackathon , held in conjunction with API Summit 2025. We challenged solo hackers and full-stack teams worldwide to create projects that don’t just react, they think, adapt, and act autonomously. Clearly, this year's theme was agentic AI…
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API Summit 2025 is over — check out our API Summit 2025 recap — but AWS re:Invent 2025 is just around the corner. If we missed seeing you in New York (or you just couldn't get enough of us) and you plan to be in Las Vegas from Dec. 1–5 for AWS re:Invent 2025,…
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Recognizing the visionaries who are transforming the future of APIs and AI The Kong Innovator Awards celebrate organizations redefining what's possible and leveraging APIs and AI to solve real business challenges and drive meaningful transformation with Kong technologies. This year's winners…
[](/blog/news/2025-kong-innovator-awards-winners)That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025 ! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the…
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For the sixth year in a row, we’re thrilled to announce that Kong has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management. Plus, Kong was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis for the second year in a row. We feel this ongoing recognition reinforces our…
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Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most…
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Today, we’re announcing that Kong has acquired OpenMeter , the open source and SaaS leader for real-time usage metering and billing. OpenMeter’s capabilities will be integrated into Kong Konnect, enabling usage-based pricing, entitlements, and invoicing for APIs, events, and AI workloads. This is a…
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