Kong Konnect AI Connectivity Platform

Kong Inc. describes itself as the AI Connectivity Company, with press releases datelined San Francisco. It helps organizations secure, manage, govern and monetize API and AI traffic across models and clouds.

Kong Konnect combines an API gateway, AI gateway, event gateway and service mesh with a developer portal, observability and APIOps automation. Context Mesh discovers APIs and turns them into MCP tools, and an MCP registry supports agent discovery. Deployment is hybrid or in Kong-managed cloud gateways, with Siemens named as a customer story.

• API gateway: Runs and secures API traffic with plugins and policies.
• AI gateway: Routes and governs LLM traffic with cost management.
• Context Mesh: Auto-discovers APIs and generates MCP servers from them.
• Developer portal: Offers self-service API and MCP registry access.
• APIOps: Automates configuration through decK, Terraform and a Kubernetes operator.
• Observability: Provides unified usage and performance visibility.

A telco exposing network and billing APIs to partners with metering.

A bank governing internal LLM access through a single AI gateway.

A marketplace turning existing REST APIs into MCP tools for agents.

Manages APIs, AI models and event streams from one control plane.

Hybrid deployment keeps data in the customer's own environment.

Metering and monetization cover agent, LLM and MCP traffic.

Regional options now include Singapore for Southeast Asian data residency, per a 2026 Kong release.

API gateways are becoming control points for AI agents and LLM traffic, with MCP adding a new class of managed interfaces. Vietnamese banks, telcos and platforms scaling microservices need the same centralized security and metering as they adopt AI services.

Press releases are datelined San Francisco. Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management for the seventh year and in the Forrester Wave for API Management Software. Offers a Kong for Startups program.