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Meter, bill, and monetize the entire AI connectivity data path

Monetize your APIs and govern AI cost in real-time to maximize your revenue and profit margins.

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Unlock New Revenue

Set up tiering, subscription, metering, and billing for self service access to monetized API, LLM, MCP, and Event streaming resources–all in the same platform.

Monetize Products Faster

Launch and price faster: Flexible product catalog that supports your pricing and packaging. From self-serve to enterprise.

AI Cost Governance

Real-time AI and API cost control via entitlement feature access and usage limits. Govern your costs through credits, usage quotas and notifications.

Pricing Agility and Margins are the primary differentiator in the AI era

Metering

Real-time usage metering

Turn any AI/API traffic, events, logs, and metrics into revenue. Empower your customers to monitor their usage in real-time and control your costs through usage limits, notifications, and quotas.

Product Catalog

Launch faster, enable deals

Flexible product catalog that supports your pricing and packaging. Make pricing changes in minutes instead of hardcoding it through weeks of tedious developer work. Whether it’s plans, credits, usage-based pricing, or commitments.

Entitlements

Control access, cost and usage

Describe feature access and usage limits with entitlements in your pricing and packaging. Govern your costs through credits, usage quotas and notifications.

Billing & Invoicing

For self-service and enterprise

From self-serve to enterprise, billing and invoicing that adapts to every motion and integrates with payment gateways and ERPs to collect accurate revenue automatically.

Metering For Your Stack

Meter your favorite AI tools, cloud infrastructure, frameworks with our collectors.

Customer stories

[Kong Konnect] supports our security requirements and our need to segregate workloads from different squads and applications — and Konnect does this very nicely.

Frank van Valkenburg
Business Architect Integration
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2.5B

API calls across 215 teams 
over the next six months

Kong has enabled us to natively manage our microservices within our Kuberentes clusters while removing our legacy load balancing overhead . . . we have measured a 20% reduction in our overall infrastructure costs.

João G. Lisanti
Head of Site Reliability Engineering
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20%

Reduced TCO

We selected Kong Konnect to power our new API landscape as it was a good fit for the existing ecosystem and also leveraged a lot of our existing team knowledge on top of all the other features it delivers. 

João Mikos
Director of Engineering - Developer Acceleration
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2.4B

Requests per month forecasted

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Checkout our guides, docs, and APIs.

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How to Price AI Products

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Top 5 Usage-Based Challenges

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