Kong Konnect
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Plans and prices
From Kong Konnect's own pricing page, checked 19 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Free | 30 days · No credit card required |
| Plus - Serverless Gateway | $25 a month | 5 Serverless Gateways · 2 Hybrid Gateways · 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways · 1 million API requests included per month · 10 million API requests maximum per month · Charged per Gateway per month, billed monthly |
| Plus - Hybrid Gateway | $200 a month | Up to 2 Hybrid Gateways · Charged per Gateway per month, billed monthly |
| Plus - Dedicated Cloud Gateway | $500 a month | Up to 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways · 1 region per control plane · Charged per Gateway per month, billed monthly |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Custom pricing · Unlimited gateways and published APIs · Fully self-hosted API gateways available · SSO and audit logs · Dedicated support and customer success |
| Plus (AI Management) | $25 a month | 1 million requests/month included · up to 10 million requests/month · up to 5 serverless AI gateway control planes · up to 2 hybrid AI gateway control planes · 5 unique LLMs proxied by AI plugins · Billed monthly; plus usage |
| Enterprise (AI Management) | Priced on request | Customizable request limits · no limits on DCGW regions, control planes, or model proxy count · Custom billed annually |
The facts
Each one read from Kong Konnect's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI traffic governance
- The platform supports governing, monetizing, and observing AI traffic, including agents, LLMs, and MCP.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Automation integrations
- Governance automation is available through the Admin API, decK CLI, Kubernetes operator, and Terraform provider.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Context mesh
- It can discover APIs, compose endpoints into MCP tools, and generate MCP servers.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Deployment
- Gateway infrastructure can be hybrid or Kong-managed in a selected cloud provider and region.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Developer portal
- Konnect supports publishing APIs and services in its Developer Portal for external agents.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Intended users
- Konnect is positioned for platform builders and enables human and agentic builders to produce and consume APIs and enterprise connectivity.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Observability
- Unified observability covers API, AI, event-streaming, and microservices traffic, including model and token usage.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Plus usage limit
- The Plus AI plan includes one million requests per month and lists a maximum of ten million requests per month.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- Kong Konnect is a unified platform for managing API, AI, and event connectivity.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Runtime management
- Konnect provisions and governs gateways for APIs, AI, agents, event streaming, and microservices.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Security
- The product describes encryption and PII sanitization for API and agent transactions.checked 14 Nov 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2017checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United Stateschecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Pricing and trial
- Plus starts at $25/month plus usage and has a 30-day trial without a credit card.checked 14 Nov 2026
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