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Kong powers the world's best businesses and most disruptive technologies.

## AI modernization is happening. And APIs are at the heart of it.

Your path to AI modernization might run through monetizing MCP consumption, building rock-solid APIs, integrating real-time data into agentic workflows, or locking down API security and access.

With Kong Konnect, you get a single platform to do it all. Konnect isn’t just your API platform. It’s your AI platform.

For APIs

Enable API producers and consumers to build, run, discover, and govern APIs in a single, self-service platform.

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For AI

Equip engineers and AI agents with secure, reliable, and cost-effective access to APIs, LLMs, MCP servers, and real-time data.

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For events

Make event streaming infrastructure cost-efficient, productize real-time data, and strengthen your streaming security posture.

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For microservices

Enforce consistent, secure service-to-service communication across complex microservices and service mesh deployments.

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The API platform is here

## Don’t let the chaos of fragmented tooling ecosystems get in the way

You no longer have to feel the security, business continuity, cost, and developer experience pains of stitching together disparate API and AI tooling to satisfy enterprise-wide use cases.

Konnect gives engineering teams everything they need to build, run, discover, and govern the connectivity that will fuel the agentic future.

Without Kong

With Kong

Why Kong?

## Unify your API platform. Build agentic infrastructure. Drive AI modernization.

Your API journey is your AI journey. Only Kong gives you everything you need to build, run, discover, govern, and monetize the APIs, LLMs, MCP servers, and real-time data feeds that power AI modernization.

But don’t just trust us. Trust our customers.

Capture maximum innovation potential

SeatGeek is disrupting the ticketing industry on the back of better, API-driven mobile experiences — all powered by Kong Konnect.

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Ship APIs and products faster

Siemens chose Kong to break down their monolith and now ships APIs and products to market faster on top of federated API management, APIOps automation, GitOps, and Kubernetes.

Discover how Siemens scaled API delivery →

Unify the developer experience

Rabobank migrated 2,000+ APIs owned by 250+ teams onto a self-service, distributed API platform, increasing deployment velocity by 10x and improving developer satisfaction.

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Turn APIs into revenue — not cost — centers

BT Group is streamlining its previously fragmented API ecosystem, making it easier and more cost-effective to adopt emerging technologies, such as generative AI.

Learn how BT plans to unify their ecosystem →

Accelerate your deployment capabilities

Goldman Sachs needed a scalable solution to help balance compliance and speed. With Kong, they’re able to speed up development and accelerate new business opportunities.

Watch how Goldman Sachs teams deploy faster →





Build more resilient systems

Michaels uses Konnect to ensure that business-critical API-driven systems are reliable and available during peak holiday shopping seasons, such as Black Friday.

Read how Michaels ensures API resilience →

Future-proof and enterprise-tested

## Work with the world’s best API people, process, and platform

When you choose Kong, you choose the world’s most adopted, battle-tested API platform. Pair this with killer documentation and training, 24/7 support, and the most experienced professional services team in the API space, and you’ll have a world-class API platform in no time.

## Build

Design, test, and debug APIs and MCP interactions with Insomnia. Build LLM APIs, event API products, and design agent-to-LLM workflows.

## Run

Build self-service, federated access to runtime infrastructure for APIs, LLMs, MCP servers, event streams, and microservices.

## Discover

Give API producers what they need to auto-inventory every API across the organization. Give humans and agentic API consumers a unified API catalog for self-service API discovery, documentation, and reuse.

## Govern

Drive automated visibility, security, and consistency across your entire API, AI, event streaming, and microservices estate.

## Monetize (coming soon in Konnect!)

Monitor, meter, bill, and monetize every agentic data path–whether that’s MCP, API, event stream, or LLM consumption. Do it all with Konnect Metering and Billing.

## More speed. More scale. More value.

More reasons to go with Kong. But don't take our word for it. See what people are saying on G2 and Gartner Peer Insights.

## G2 customer review

“Amazing & lightning fast API gateway. It's lightweight, easy to install and configure, and super fast.”

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## Gartner Peer Insights™

“Kong Konnect is a really powerful platform that any organization of any size can use. I like its high performance, that it's scalable and easy to use.”

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Built for Developers

## Work faster with the tech developers love

Kong gives developers the freedom to be wildly successful without compromising on security or governance.

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## Build smarter

Automate the entire API lifecycle as a part of your CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC strategies.

## Build securely

Shift API security left and right through automated API security checkpoints in your CI/CD pipeline.

## Build anywhere

Cloud. On-prem. Hybrid. Kong lets you build applications where they operate best.

## Build together

Kong helps millions build amazing things. And our community keeps the innovation going.

400B+

API calls a day

1.6B+

Downloads

80K+

GitHub stars

160K+

Community members

Plugins and Integration

## Work smarter with hundreds of policies and integrations

Customize Kong to fit your evolving needs with our extensive ecosystem of plugins and integrations (plus the option to build your own) and ship better APIs, faster.

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Customers

## Enabling API innovation
across industries

Builders and businesses rely on Kong to ignite innovation and drive growth, creating extraordinary digital experiences faster, more efficiently, and more securely.

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At Rabobank we don't just create APIs -- we create magic and Kong has enabled us to create that magic in a much faster, smoother and more reliable way. Our acumen for financial services and the state of the art technology from Kong make for an amazing combination and it has allowed us and continues to enable us to be very successful. Simple, yet effective, light weight, yet robust… that and more, is what Kong means for our engineering API teams.

Stefan Zavoianu

Senior Product Owner API Management | Platform & Infra

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10x

Faster deployments

\[Kong\] lets the team work much faster and more efficiently, to deliver quicker results to the broader organization.

Claudio Spadaccini

Head of Integration

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20%

Faster time-to-market speed

The scalability and agility that Kong provides our bank is best in class . . .

Jayakumar Ganesan

Head of Service, Digital Platforms

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57%

Reduction in operational costs

## Gartner® names Kong a Leader for the 6th Year in a Row

Kong named a Magic Quadrant™ Leader for API Management, plus positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.

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## Grow faster and more
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Unleash developer productivity — and your organization’s potential — with Kong’s trusted cloud native API platform and the world’s most adopted API gateway.

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