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  3. Why Kong?

# AI is powerful.
But unpredictable without control.

Kong is the proven API + AI platform for enterprise teams to ship faster, stay in control, and build on infrastructure they already trust.

[See the Proof](#proof)See the Proof
### 1,000+ enterprise customers
### Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
### 182K+ community members
### 90K+ GitHub stars

## When failure isn't an option, 
enterprises choose Kong

Speed, control, and reliability aren't negotiable. See how enterprises like yours made the call.

## AI Infrastructure

> 

By securing and enabling trusted AI traffic at scale with Kong, we’ve set a precedent for how organizations can embrace AI responsibly while continuing to innovate quickly.

Anderson Parra de Paula

Staff Software Engineer

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4x

reduction in development time

> 

The combined power of the Kong API gateway and AI gateway, plus professional services, gives us a competitive and cost advantage in our IT landscape. Add to this the improved security and controls, as well as improved time-to-market for new products and services.

Ben van Leliveld

Program Manager IT

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60%

reduction in development costs

> 

With the support of Kong AI Gateway, we apply mature API governance practices to the emerging world of LLMs, thus ensuring we can scale and control our AI use, while achieving our innovation goals

Gwendal Yviquel

Group Project Manager of AI Capabilities

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Multiple

model providers standardized

## API Platform Modernization

> 

Thanks to Kong, we can scale without limits. Our infrastructure is faster, more secure, and ready for whatever comes next.

Oliver Heinze

Product Owner

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7

week migration timeline

> 

We needed a way to move fast while staying compliant and secure . . . With Kong, we can scale innovation responsibly.

Ninos Gabriel

Managing Director

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15%

faster development

> 

One of the main reasons Kong fits so well is that its evolution mirrors how we operate. We needed a partner that matched our speed and architectural direction.

Mark Beerens

Product Manager, Cloud API Management

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<200ms

performance

## At enterprise scale, 

“probably fine” is not a strategy

When the infrastructure layer matters this much, reliability is not a nice-to-have.

_SECURITY _

100%

API and agent context visibility

_RELIABILITY _

99.99%

availability SLA

_PERFORMANCE _

1T

API & AI calls/day

_RECOGNITION_

## See what the industry's most rigorous evaluators say

When the stakes are high, this is the track record teams rely on.

What I like most about Kong Konnect is the speed of innovation it enables.

-
Software Developer

Kong Beats Chest to Ward Off Bad AI Connections

[Read the Article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2025/04/02/kong-beats-chest-to-ward-off-bad-ai-connections/)Read the Article

Secure, managed connectivity is more important than ever in the agentic AI era. Kong is responding by building a single backplane for APIs, LLMs and agents.

James Governor
-
RedMonk Co-Founder

6x Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management

[Read the Report](/resources/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-full-lifecycle-api-management)Read the Report

Kong has the potential to become a control plane for AI-era connectivity, analogous to what API gateways were for applications.

451 Research
-
2026

If AI is a bubble that bursts, Kong’s CEO says all the infrastructure spending will have been worth it

[Read the Article](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-bubble-energy-kong-ceo-2025-10)Read the Article

What I like most about Kong Konnect is the speed of innovation it enables.

-
Software Developer

Kong Beats Chest to Ward Off Bad AI Connections

[Read the Article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2025/04/02/kong-beats-chest-to-ward-off-bad-ai-connections/)Read the Article

Secure, managed connectivity is more important than ever in the agentic AI era. Kong is responding by building a single backplane for APIs, LLMs and agents.

James Governor
-
RedMonk Co-Founder

6x Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management

[Read the Report](/resources/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-full-lifecycle-api-management)Read the Report

Kong has the potential to become a control plane for AI-era connectivity, analogous to what API gateways were for applications.

451 Research
-
2026

If AI is a bubble that bursts, Kong’s CEO says all the infrastructure spending will have been worth it

[Read the Article](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-bubble-energy-kong-ceo-2025-10)Read the Article

What I like most about Kong Konnect is the speed of innovation it enables.

-
Software Developer

Kong Beats Chest to Ward Off Bad AI Connections

[Read the Article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2025/04/02/kong-beats-chest-to-ward-off-bad-ai-connections/)Read the Article

Secure, managed connectivity is more important than ever in the agentic AI era. Kong is responding by building a single backplane for APIs, LLMs and agents.

James Governor
-
RedMonk Co-Founder

6x Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management

[Read the Report](/resources/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-full-lifecycle-api-management)Read the Report

Kong has the potential to become a control plane for AI-era connectivity, analogous to what API gateways were for applications.

451 Research
-
2026

If AI is a bubble that bursts, Kong’s CEO says all the infrastructure spending will have been worth it

[Read the Article](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-bubble-energy-kong-ceo-2025-10)Read the Article

## Why teams trust Kong

Agents in dev. Chaos in prod. No more with a single control plane.

### Builders move fast. Platform team sleeps at night.

Declarative, GitOps-driven workflows make AI rollouts more repeatable at scale. Build-for-production agentic AI.

### Holds up against the hard questions.


Access controls, compliance, multi-region reliability and SLA-backed performance? Covered.

### One place to keep complexity in check.

Govern LLM, MCP, and A2A traffic with less sprawl, fewer handoffs, and a consistent operating model.

### Built for the AI era. Proven in the API era.

Kong's AI capabilities are not a separate bet but extend the API battle-tested infrastructure enterprises already rely on.

_OUR ECOSYSTEM_

## Fits your stack like a glove

Kong works with the systems, tools, and cloud environments you already rely on.

[Explore Kong Ecosytem](https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/)Explore Kong Ecosytem
_CONNECTORS & INTEGRATIONS_
_INFRASTRUCTURE & CLOUD _
_AI AGENTS & LLMS _
_SECURITY & AUTHENTICATION _
_DEVELOPMENT _
_OBSERVABILITY _
_DATA & ANALYTICS _
_CONNECTORS & INTEGRATIONS_
_ _

## Some platforms make you compromise. 
This one doesn’t.

The alternatives to Kong? 


More lock-in. More overhead. More workarounds.

[See Kong vs. MuleSoft](/performance-comparison/kong-vs-mulesoft)See Kong vs. MuleSoft
[See Kong vs. Apigee](/performance-comparison/kong-vs-apigee)See Kong vs. Apigee
[See Kong vs. Postman](/performance-comparison/kong-vs-postman)See Kong vs. Postman

## Ready to evaluate?

[Book a personalized demo](/contact-sales)Book a personalized demo
Doing due diligence

Download the Gartner report

Technical champion

Start free on Konnect

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