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# API Modernization for the AI Era

Upgrade from legacy API management with an architecture more neutral than Switzerland.

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Legacy API Management
Modern API and AI Platform
  • Continuously tethered to a single vendor's ecosystem
  • A growing tangle of gateways, each with its own rulebook
  • Designed for yesterday's apps, not today's AI agents
  • Operates in seconds, not milliseconds
  • Run it where you want, on your terms
  • Consistent control wherever your gateways run
  • APIs, AI, and events — all on a single platform
  • Handles the volume and complexity of agentic AI
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**Some platforms make you compromise. This one doesn’t.**
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**Kong offers human-in-the-loop automated API migration services.**

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**Is your API platform ready for agents?**

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## API Modernization Built on Real-World Results

See how leading organizations are moving away from legacy API management to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

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The combined power of the Kong Gateway and AI Gateway, plus professional services, gives us a competitive advantage in how we deliver and govern APIs at scale.

Ben van Leliveldt
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Program Manager IT, DELTA Fiber

## Built for where enterprise AI actually runs

### No cloud lock-in

Kong runs across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Same features, same governance everywhere. Choose your clouds and regions. The control plane isn't tied to any of them.

### Consistent governance everywhere you run

Same policies, authentication standards, and operational model wherever your workloads run. No gaps. No rebuilds. No exceptions.

### Own the full AI data path in one runtime

REST APIs, LLM traffic, MCP calls, A2A communication, Kafka streams — one control plane, policy engine, dev portal, and observability stack. Only Kong ships it natively.

### Handle the traffic legacy gateways can't

Sub-millisecond latency under high throughput with built-in observability, so you find problems before users do. No tuning workarounds. No inherited architectural ceilings.

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