Pricing and packaging for any use case

Because every company needs to innovate to win. And the API platform is your innovation factory.

Free trial

$0 for 30 daysno credit card required

Try everything that the Kong Konnect platform offers with a self-guided tour.

  • Enterprise functionality — for free — for 30 days
  • No Gateway limits
  • Analytics retained for 30 days

Plus

Charged per Gatewayper month, bill monthly

Great for smaller companies that are just getting started on building out their API programs.


API Gateways

  • Up to 5 Serverless Gateways
  • Up to 2 Hybrid Gateways
  • Up to 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways

API, protocol, and service support

  • REST APIs
  • HTTP APIs
  • LLMs
  • Kafka
  • WebSockets
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL

API Developer Portal

  • Up to 2 Developer Portals
  • Support for up to 20 published APIs in your Developer Portal

Service Catalog limits

  • Service Catalog support for 2 services included
  • Up to 10 premium services during early access

API analytics and debugging limits

  • Advanced analytics for 1M API requests/month
  • 10M requests/month stored

API platform security

  • RBAC

Training and support

  • Email support with a 2-business-day SLA

Enterprise

Custom pricingbilled annually

Perfect for medium and larger organizations building an API platform for high-volume, business critical API, AI, and event streaming traffic.

Everything in Plus, Plus:

No Gateway limits

  • As many Hybrid Gateways as you want
  • As many Dedicated Cloud Gateways as you want
  • Fully self-hosted API Gateways available

Developer Portal scale out

  • As many Developer Portals as you want
  • As many published APIs as you want

Enhanced Service Catalog governance

  • Unlimited Services in Service Catalog
  • No premium service limits

Enterprise-grade API platform security and controls

  • Audit Logs
  • SSO

Dedicated, customer-specific training and support

  • Dedicated Proof of Concept with the Kong team
  • Dedicated Customer Success Managers
  • Dedicated Technical Account Managers
  • Professional services and migration support available
  • Higher SLAs

Compare features and cost

Free Trial

Enterprise

API Gateways

Dedicated Cloud Gateways (DCGW)

DCGWs in your AWS, GCP, and/or Azure region of choice

Number of regions

No limitations for 30 days

Limited to one region per control plane

No region limitations

Cost per DCGW control plane

No added cost for up to 30 days

$500/month per control plane

Volume discounts available

DCGW bandwidth cost

No added cost for up to 30 days

$0.15 per GB

Volume discounts available

DCGW control plane limits

No limits for 30 days

Up to 2

No limits

SLA

99.95%

99.95%

99.95%

Serverless API Gateways

Serverless API gateways

Serverless API gateway control plane limits

No limits for 30 days

Up to 5

N/A

Serverless API gateway contol plane costs

No added cost for up to 30 days

$25/month per control plane

N/A

SLA

No SLA

No SLA

N/A

Hybrid API Gateways

Hybrid API gateways

Hybrid API gateway control plane limits

No limits for 30 days

Up to 2

Volume discounts available

Hybrid API gateway control plane costs

No added cost for up to 30 days

$200/month per control plane

Volume discounts available

SLA

Self-managed

Self-managed

Self-managed

API gateway transaction volume

API requests per month included

No limits for 30 days

1 million API requests

Customizable

Cost per additional 1 million API requests per month

N/A

$200/month per additional 1 million API requests/month

Volume discounts available

Maximum number of API requests per month

No limits for 30 days

10 million API requests/month

Customizable

AI Gateway

AI Gateway Free Plugins

AI Gateway Paid Plugins

Available for 30 days

Available as an add-on

Available as an add-on

AI Gateway Manager

Available for 30 days

Available as an add-on

Available as an add-on

AI Gateway model proxy limit

No limits for 30 days

5

No limits

AI Gateway model proxy costs

No costs for 30 days

$100/month per model

Custom, volume discounts available

Fully self-hosted API gateways

Fully self-hosted API gateways (where both the control plane and the data plane are hosted locally are available as a part of our separate Gateway Enterprise offering. Gateway enterprise pricing is fully custom and must be discussed with a Kong commercial team. If you are interested in discussing pricing, please contact Sales.


API discovery

API Developer Portal

API Developer Portal

Number of included API Developer Portals

No limits for 30 days

1

1

Maximum number of API Developer Portals

No limits for 30 days

2

No limits

Cost per additional API Developer Portal

No costs for 30 days

$200/month

Volume discounts available

Number of included published APIs

No limits for 30 days

2

Customizable

Cost per additional published API

No added costs for 30 days

$20/month for the first 10 total APIs; $10/month for every extra APIs

Volume discounts available

Maximum number of published APIs

No limits for 30 days

20

No limits

Service Catalog

Service Catalog

Number of included governed services

No limits for 30 days

1

Volume discounts available

Maximum number of governed services

No limits for 30 days

10

No limits

Cost per additional governed service

No costs for 30 days

$75/month per governed service

Custom, volume discounts available

API analytics and observability

Advanced analytics

Advanced analytics

Advanced analytics

Number of request analytics included per month

No limits for 30 days

First 1M API requests included/month

No limits

Cost for analytics per extra 20M API requests per months

No limits for 30 days

$20 per 1M API requests above 1M

No extra cost

Maximum amount of API requests per month

No costs for 30 days

10M/month

Custom limits

Data retention

No limits for 30 days

14 months

14 months

Observability

Integration with third-party monitoring and observability solutions

OpenTelemetry support

Security and governance

User management, access control, and governance

RBAC

SSO

Enterprise only

Audit logging

Enterprise only

Training and support

Technical support and customer success

Support channels

Email support during your trial

Email only

Email, Zendesk, Slack, and other channels available

SLA

2 business days

2 business days

Custom

Dedicated Customer Success Manager

Enterprise only

Enterprise only

Professional Services available

Enterprise only

Enterprise only

Frequently asked questions

What is the SLA for Kong Konnect?

The target availability for Kong Konnect is 99.9% per calendar month (based on minutes of availability/total minutes per month (“Konnect Cloud Service Level”). For more details, please see our Support and Maintenance Policy.

What payment methods do you offer?

We currently support credit card transactions for Konnect Plus plan customers in US dollars only. Konnect Enterprise plan customers may pay via invoice/PO.

How are the monthly invoices calculated?

Monthly invoices are calculated at the end of every calendar month and due at the beginning of the next calendar month. Resource based usage metrics such as Control Planes, Portals, Published APIs are metered hourly and prorated based on amount of usage every month. The monthly prices indicated in the rate card are calculated based on an average of 730 hours per calendar month and 8760 hours per year.

How can I upgrade/downgrade/cancel my plan?

If you’re a Konnect Enterprise plan customer, please contact sales to make changes to your account. If you’re a current Konnect Plus plan customer and would like to move to the Enterprise plan, you may do so by contacting sales. If you would like to cancel your Konnect Plus plan, you may do so on your Account page.

How long are subscription terms?

Plans are billed on a calendar month basis in arrears. You will be charged for the previous month at the start of the following month. The duration of Enterprise subscriptions is set out in the individual Order Form for the subscription.

Does Kong have a Partner Services Program?

Yes. Kong offers various partnership opportunities. For more information on how your organization can partner with the fastest growing microservice connectivity platform, please see our Partners page.

How do I increase the limits of Konnect Plus?

If you exceed monthly resource limits on Plus, you’ll receive email and in-app notifications prompting you to reduce usage or upgrade. Advanced features like SSO and Audit Logs are only available with Enterprise, so if you need them — or consistently exceed usage limits — we recommend upgrading to Konnect Enterprise, which offers higher availability and enhanced support. If you would like to move to the Enterprise plan, you may do so by contacting sales.

I signed up for Konnect Free or Konnect Plus before March 1, 2025, how do I sign in?

You can sign in using the same Konnect sign in page you used before, https://signin.cloud.konghq.com/. The rate card for organizations who signed up between September 26, 2023, and March 1, 2025, is here.

I signed up for Konnect Free or Konnect Plus before September 26, 2023, how do I switch to the new Plus?

Register for a new Plus account at https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect/register.

Are there higher tiers of support available?

In Enterprise we have the following support tiers:
Diamond: 24x7 30-min SLA
Platinum: 24x7 1-hour SLA
Business: Regional business hours, 2-hour SLA

Essentials

$0per user / month

Everything your team needs to get started

Optional Add-ons

  • 1,000 free mock requests, then $10/25,000 reqs

Pro

$12per user / month,
save 15% with annual billing

More control for scaling teams

Everything in Essentials, plus:

Optional Add-ons

  • 10,000 free mock requests, then $10/25,000 reqs

Enterprise

$36per user* / month, billed annually
*Self-serve up to 50 users. For larger teams, contact sales.

Work at scale across many teams

Everything in Pro, plus:

  • SSO (SAML/OIDC) and SCIM
  • Mandate where projects are stored (local, git, or cloud)
  • Domain capture/lock and invite control
  • Enterprise support
  • Access to our SOC2 compliance and latest security testing results
  • Native vault integrations including AWS, GCP, Hashicorp, and Azure
  • Unlimited mock server requests
  • Custom payment options

Optional Add-ons

  • Kong professional services to help your org get started quickly