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# No AI without APIs

**Intelligence is the product. Revenue and margin are the business.**

Publish and monetize your public APIs. Govern your LLMs, MCPs, and agents.

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## Monetize your APIs

## You've built intelligence. But not distribution.

What's missing is the public access point, self-serve docs, pricing tiers, and quotas that keep one customer from taking down the rest. 

That's not an AI problem. It's an API management problem.

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## Publish & manage public APIs

Give developers a real front door — not a Slack channel or a slow email chain.

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    One catalog for developers to discover, test, and register

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    Full observability into every interaction across your catalog and published APIs

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    Multiple portals for multiple audiences — internal devs, customers, and partners

## Monetize API, agent, and model access

Every model call is a transaction. Treat it like one.

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    Define usage-based entitlements and packaging, integrated with invoicing and billing systems

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    Build meters against entitlements to track and govern usage against pre-set plans

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    Enforce entitlements at the gateway — for API requests, agent calls, and token consumption

## Don't just operationalize AI. Productize it.

Build a global API distribution engine for your AI products and services.

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## Govern AI

## Every prompt has a price.

Every uncached prompt, misrouted request, and unbudgeted agent is margin lost. Token spend scales silently until the invoice lands.

That's not a model problem. It's a governance problem.

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## Model routing & multi-LLM orchestration

Already routing models? Kong gives you one platform to unify on.

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    Enable devs and applications to switch models and providers seamlessly through a single API endpoint

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    Cut token consumption and latency with semantic policies, advanced routing, and MCP tool filtering

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    Keep requests moving with automatic failover if a provider has an outage or hits a rate limit

## Token cost analytics & observability

Build a single control tower for full data path cost visibility.

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    Per-request analytics on token volume, latency, and error rate across every model, with historical comparison

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    Visual traffic maps showing how requests flow between clients and models in real time

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    Cost attribution by consumer — know what a partner costs you and what to charge them

## Turn LLM spend into a managed cost.

Route to the right model. Cache what you've already answered. Cap what any team or customer can spend. 

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_ONE PLATFORM _

API management, now for AI.

Ungoverned model and API access mean rollbacks, tech debt, and one-off fixes that slow shipping. The fix isn't new. It's API management — just pointed at a new kind of traffic.

_ONE GUARDRAIL _

Traffic controlled

Rate limits, quotas, and access control — applied automatically across your entire API estate.

_ONE GATEWAY _

Traffic connected

One gateway for every kind of workload — LLMs, agents, REST, and events.

_SECURITY _

10M

API Keys generated

_LATENCY _
_PERFORMANCE _

+1T

API & AI requests/day

_THROUGHPUT _

Tokens and Calls per second

_IMPROVE MARGINS _

Reduce operational costs by 57%

_RELIABILITY _

99.99%

availability SLA

_SHIP FASTER _

+182K

community users around the world

## Let's build this together.

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