The API Platform for AI
Made to accelerate AI adoption and empower platform builders, Kong Konnect lets you manage API gateways, AI gateways, ingress, and service meshes securely from one place.
A unified API platform — now available as a fully managed service
Make APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable. And tap into the power of the world’s fastest API gateway.
Build AI capabilities faster by quickly integrating LLMs and models without writing new code for each one.
A fully managed or hybrid API platform — wherever you want to manage your APIs, we're there to support them.
Implement zero-trust security and develop operational insight into security-related events and usage patterns.
Why Kong Konnect?
Grow faster and more securely with Kong’s unified API management platform.
Reduce complexity with a single pane of glass
- Use a centralized control plane to deploy and manage multiple gateways across service meshes, ingress, cloud, and Kubernetes providers.
- Maintain control over data planes in the network environment of your choice.
Start fast with the most adopted API gateway
- Powered by Kong’s blazing fast, lightweight, and flexible API gateway deployed in fully managed or hybrid modes.
- Optimize performance, traffic management, observability, and security to address your business needs.
Build more GenAI applications faster
- Boost developer productivity to build genAI apps by providing a single API to consume various LLMs and automate cross-cutting concerns.
- Define and implement security and governance controls, to help ensure safe and responsible interactions with LLMs.
Make federated governance a reality
- Foster a Decentralized, template-based approach without sacrificing security.
- Achieve API consistency and compliance through automation and collaboration to onboard teams faster.
Access a comprehensive registry of all your services and APIs
- Automatically discover all services and APIs in your organization and maintain an up-to-date record.
- Access composite information about your services, such as their code repositories, on-call rotations, CI/CD pipelines, and more.
- Track improvement in compliance with security and engineering best practices across the organization.
Accelerate consumption of your APIs
- Package API services into products for easier consumption.
- Manage API products, versions, and documentation — all through a single dashboard.
Seamlessly onboard developers
- Browse, search, and consume APIs, and deliver a customized portal for application registration.
- Reference documentation, test endpoints, and register to create applications using specific APIs.
Get performance with security and compliance
- Incorporate robust authentication, security, and traffic control policies using an extensive plugin ecosystem or build your own custom plugins.
- Group users to define access, and configure fine-grained control for each resource.
- Get multi-geo support for the control plane in the EU, US, and APAC.
Manage gateways in Kubernetes
- Get a single-pane-of-glass view and control over API gateways deployed as Kubernetes Ingress.
- Easily publish and register K8s services to boost developer productivity.
Make smart moves with Advanced Analytics
- Optimize API and AI gateway performance in real time.
- Analyze performance of any service, route, or application managed by Kong Konnect and reduce time to resolution.
Elevate the developer experience
Move faster without losing control. Kong Konnect frees developers to be more agile with tools they love — paired with the built-in security and compliance businesses need.
Customers on Kong Konnect
I would strongly recommend Konnect to anyone wishing to deploy a streamlined, secure API management tool quickly and easily.
To full in-production
deployment
With Kong, we were able to deliver [an application] in three months instead of seven. We also now save four months of total custom development time.
Reduction in
operational costs
Kong delivers lightweight runtimes, which supports our distributed, autonomous operating model.
Requests per week
We had so many dependencies on stakeholders who did manual checks around security and observability. The only way to speed up delivery was to automate with Kong.
Increased deployments
per month
Resources
Flexible plans to fit your needs
Scale your API management seamlessly and pay only for what you use with flexible pay-as-you-go billing
Cost-effective contracts with predictability and savings, plus dedicated support
Become an API-first company
Your journey to modern API management starts now.