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# Consolidate API use cases and cut costs with a unified API platform

Drive API program cost and time efficiencies through platform unification

## Simplify, modernize, and future-proof your API tech stack

Drive financial and operational efficiency with a platform that unifies API, AI, eventing, and microservices connectivity.

## What’s the cost advantage of an all-in-one API platform?

### Reduce API tooling costs

Reduce your API tech stack costs by eliminating redundant vendor and/or custom, in-house tooling.

### Avoid costs from security and resilience issues

Enforce security and business continuity best practices across every point of connectivity with a single platform and single approach to automated enforcement.

### Improve developer productivity

Equip your developers with everything they need to build, run, discover, and govern APIs — all in a unified self-service platform.

### Innovate faster

Capture maximum innovation potential by turning APIs, AI, LLMs, agents, microservices, and events into innovative product and customer experiences — all with one platform.

## Drive a cohesive, cost-efficient, and secure API strategy

## Maximize engineering efficiency & API cost savings

Drive cost and time efficiencies by giving engineers a single place to go to govern API, AI, event streaming, and microservices connectivity.

## Streamline and standardize API operations

Set up self-serve paved roads for everything from API development and testing, to security and resilience, to consumption and monetization. Every hour saved with an automated, self-serve approach means costs saved and faster time to market for the business.

## Control AI, LLM, and agentic AI cost structures

Enforce consumption limits and cost controls across the entire AI stack — from the MCP server, to the LLM, to the various APIs and tools being called — all in one platform.

## Choose the right platform for now and the future

Your path to disruption might run through AI productization, API monetization, becoming a real-time business with event-driven architecture, or moving from monolithic architecture to microservices.

Either way, you’ll have an innovation-ready platform that’s ready to support new API use cases when you need them.

## Kong will meet you where you are

At first glance, developer autonomy and platform consolidation may seem inherently at odds. But they don’t have to be. Whether you take a top-down or bottoms-up approach to consolidation, there are ways to drive unification of the platform and top-notch developer experiences.

## Gartner® names Kong a Leader for the 6th Year in a Row

Kong named a Magic Quadrant™ Leader for API Management, plus positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.

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## Questions about platform and cost consolidation?

Contact us today and tell us about consolidation and standardization needs, and we can offer details about features, support, plans, and consulting.