About
Kong Konnect is Kong’s unified API and AI connectivity platform for building, running, discovering, and governing modern digital traffic. It brings together API management, AI gateway capabilities, event management, developer portals, observability, and monetization in a single platform designed for cloud-native and agentic-era workloads.
The platform is positioned to help teams secure and accelerate APIs, LLMs, agents, MCP traffic, and event streams across hybrid and cloud environments. It supports the full lifecycle from design and deployment through governance, analytics, and cost control.
- Unified control plane for APIs, AI traffic, and events
- API gateway and runtime management capabilities
- AI gateway features for LLMs, agents, and MCP traffic
- Developer portal and service catalog for API discovery
- Analytics, observability, metering, billing, and monetization tools
- Cloud, hybrid, and self-hosted deployment options
Free Tier Value
The page explicitly shows a 30-day free trial for Kong Konnect with no credit card required, so no_cc_required is true and free_trial_duration_days is 30. Because this is a free trial (not an always-free tier), the conservative free_tier_value_usd_per_month is null per the instructions when no concrete recurring free cap can be valued as a standalone tier; the trial value is instead captured via the duration. Feature parity is set to 90% because the trial includes enterprise functionality for 30 days with no gateway limits, but it is time-limited and analytics retention is only 30 days.
What's included in the free tier
- Enterprise functionality for free for 30 days.
- No Gateway limits during the 30-day trial.
- Analytics retained for 30 days.
- Up to 5 Serverless Gateways.
- Up to 2 Hybrid Gateways.
- Up to 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways.
- Support for REST APIs, HTTP APIs, LLMs, Kafka, WebSockets, gRPC, and GraphQL.
- Unlimited agents for agent-to-agent traffic.
- Universal LLM API with up to 5 unique LLM models.
- Unlimited MCP server proxies.
- PII sanitization and prompt guardrails.
- LLM access control and authentication.
- Token-based rate limiting and semantic caching.
- Token-level tracking and real-time cost analytics.
- Up to 2 Developer Portals.
- Support for up to 20 published APIs in the Developer Portal.
- Service Catalog support for 2 services included.
- Up to 10 premium services during early access.
- Advanced analytics for 1M API requests per month.
- 10M API requests per month stored.
- RBAC included.
- Email support with a 2-business-day SLA.
- Kong Academy training included.
See Kong Konnect pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Plus
- serverless gateways
- up to 5
- hybrid gateways
- up to 2
- dedicated cloud gateways
- up to 2
- developer portals
- up to 2
- published APIs in portal
- up to 20
- unique LLM models
- up to 5
- Up to 5 Serverless Gateways
- Up to 2 Hybrid Gateways
- Up to 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways
- REST, HTTP, LLM, Kafka, WebSockets, gRPC, and GraphQL support
- Unlimited agents for A2A traffic
- Universal LLM API with up to 5 unique LLM models
- Unlimited MCP server proxies
- Up to 2 Developer Portals
Enterprise
- hybrid gateways
- unlimited
- dedicated cloud gateways
- unlimited
- developer portals
- unlimited
- published APIs
- unlimited
- services in service catalog
- unlimited
- No Gateway limits
- As many Hybrid Gateways as you want
- As many Dedicated Cloud Gateways as you want
- Fully self-hosted API Gateways available
- As many Developer Portals as you want
- Unlimited Services in Service Catalog
- Audit Logs
- SSO
Pricing extracted from Kong Konnect's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
