The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
AI moves fast: new models, new pricing, new capabilities, sometimes all at once. Prepaid credits let customers buy value upfront and spend it across whatever you're offering today or launch next, without needing to reprice, remigrate, or renegotiate every time something changes. Prepaid credits are…
In the burgeoning intelligence economy, AI tokens are a metered utility, but enterprise profitability now hinges on a critical distinction: output tokens can cost up to 10x more than inputs, creating a new, invisible risk for cost overruns, particularly with Agentic AI. Learn how Kong AI Gateway…
The recent article on OpenAI overhauling its payment systems to reduce its dependency on Stripe highlights an important tension many digital platform builders face today: how to balance usage-based monetization with the realities of payments infrastructure dependency. At Kong, we see this as a…
TL:DR Imagine 47 million requests hitting your platform last month. Can you prove who made each one—and invoice with confidence? If that question tightens your stomach, you're not alone. Metered billing for APIs promises fair, transparent pricing that scales with customer success. But it only works…
Last week, Gartner published a report titled MCP Servers Will Fuel the Next AI Revenue Surge — Context as a Service (1) that should be required reading for every enterprise technology leader. Then, Kong CEO Augusto Marietti (Aghi for short) wrote out his thoughts on the subject and why context is…
While every organization races to deploy AI agents faster, finance departments are watching something alarming unfold—and it will play a large part in determining who survives the agentic era. The numbers are stark: 84% of companies report more than 6% gross margin erosion from AI costs. Within…
See how easily Konnect Metering & Billing transforms API and AI traffic management into new revenue streams. We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science…
If your 2026 resolution is to finally get AI costs under control , we've got you covered. Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out that production use case for AI agents (OK, this one isn’t so typical unless you operate…
Picture this: you’ve spent months building a slick API that developers love, and it’s already humming behind the scenes in production. But every time someone calls your endpoint, what happens? You get an invisible hit across multiple cost centers, including expensive LLMs, without a clear line of…
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…
I'm commonly asked by customers for advice on how they can build a good platform cross-charging model for their organization. And my gut reaction is nearly always "don't." We'll come back to why I think that later, but first let's look at what cross-charging means, why you might want it, and how it…
In this blog post, we'll talk about how to implement API product tiering, a powerful way to customize access, control usage, and monetize APIs. This model can help you scale efficiently while maintaining a smooth user experience. Read on to learn more! We'll be talking about how to implement API…
APIs enable our digital world. But they can also be a powerful source of revenue through the process of API monetization or API productization. A decade ago, many business workflows were conducted through manual tasks, logging into monolithic SaaS applications that were rolled out across entire…
Whether ordering groceries online, checking your bank balance, or tracking a delivery, APIs are behind the scenes making it all possible. They're the backbone of the digital experiences that drive our interconnected global economy. You may know that. But beyond the convenient (and sometimes…
API monetization is currently a trending topic for many organizations looking to beef up their revenue. Of course, monetizing APIs isn't the easiest of tasks and requires quite a few moving parts. When it comes to monetization, you're going to need an entire technology stack to handle the heavy…
Today's digital economy is shifting toward dependence on microservices — self-contained and reusable software components — working in coordination to compose the applications we use. Communication between microservices happens through the API (or application programming interface) . Using APIs…