# Gartner® | Market Overview for AI Gateways
Access the report to learn why Gartner defines AI gateways as essential infrastructure for governing how AI agents access models and MCP servers. Kong is named as a vendor in the category.
- - **A Fast-Growing Category: **Gartner projects that the AI gateway market will grow rapidly during the next 24 months, expanding from less than $250 million in annual revenue to $1 billion by 2028.
- - **MCP Governance Is Now Table Stakes: **Gartner lists MCP gateway support as a mandatory feature, not an emerging differentiator, we believe validating the direction the market is already moving.
- - **Enterprises Are Already Moving: **68% of software engineering leaders were already engaged with AI gateways: 15% had deployed them, 31% were in the process of rolling them out, and 22% were evaluating the technology.
Gartner Technology Adoption Roadmap for Large Enterprises for 2026 Survey found that more than two-thirds of software engineering leaders are already engaged with AI gateway technology in some form. The report describes a market in transition. Vendors originally built for single-model access are rapidly expanding into a broader AI infrastructure layer covering MCP and Agent2Agent (A2A) communication.
This report shows how Kong stacks up to other vendors in this space like ABC, including AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce.
**Gartner, Market Overview for AI Gateways, Keith Guttridge, Andrew Humphreys, Shiva Varma, 13 May 2026**
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