# Power MCP production and consumption. Power agentic development workflows.
Bring together MCP, AI coding tools, and every single agent-critical API, LLM, and eventing resource — all in a single place.
## Open up the agentic floodgates
AI coding tools are the first real promise of the agentic future, but they need access to tools to consume APIs and enable agentic workflows. Up until now, this has been messy, with many organizations struggling to govern the rapid proliferation of MCP, resulting in security issues and challenges to unify agentic access to APIs, AI resources, and real-time data.
That changes now.
## MCP is the standard for LLM connectivity. Konnect is the standard for interaction with MCP.
Govern MCP server creation, testing, exposure, security, consumption, and observability — all in one platform.
Solve the hard problems around MCP security, server generation, observability, and cost control. And start to plan your MCP monetization strategy, too.
Control and optimize cost structures through token throttling and semantic caching.
## Building on MCP requires building on Kong.
## Eliminate and avoid common MCP development pitfalls
Offload MCP server generation to your MCP Gateway to ensure consistent and rapid MCP server generation on top of existing API and event resources.
## Bake-in security and business continuity controls from the start
Use Kong APIOps and Gateway policies to ensure that every MCP server is protected by the Gateway’s standardized security policies that are purpose-built for MCP and LLM use cases.
## Centralize your approach to MCP authorization
Secure all MCP servers in one place with Kong’s dedicated MCP authentication plugin. Acting as an OAuth 2.0 resource server, Kong centralizes security and applies consistent security policies across every Kong-managed MCP server automatically.
## Observe and monitor every MCP interaction
Capture information around the tools, workflows, prompts, etc. that comprise interactions between MCP clients and servers. Combined with the dashboards and advanced analytics in Kong Konnect, teams get a single pane of glass view into all API, Eventing, LLM, and MCP performance and behavior
## Drive performance and cost efficiencies
Leverage Kong’s semantic intelligence to deliver relevant tools to the LLM based on the prompt. This drastically improves LLM performance and reduces the overall costs of agentic workflows.
## Gartner® names Kong a Leader for 7th year.
Once again, furthest right for Completeness of Vision.
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