Kong Konnect is a paid product with a free trial, 30 days long. The free plan includes Enterprise functionality for free for 30 days, no Gateway limits during the 30-day trial, and Analytics retained for 30 days. No credit card is required to sign up.
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
This is a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, so the practical monthly value is anchored to the cheapest paid plan but only for one month. Since Plus is billed per Gateway and the trial includes the full platform with no Gateway limits and retained analytics, the trial is worth roughly the full monthly value of a starter month of Plus, but only as a time-limited offer.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 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
- unique LLM models
- up to 5
- developer portals
- up to 2
- published APIs
- up to 20
- API Gateways
- AI Gateway
- API Developer Portal
- Service Catalog
- Advanced analytics
- RBAC
- Email support with 2-business-day SLA
- Kong Academy training
Enterprise
- hybrid gateways
- as many as you want
- dedicated cloud gateways
- as many as you want
- developer portals
- as many as you want
- published APIs
- as many as you want
- service catalog services
- unlimited
- support
- higher SLAs
- Everything in Plus
- No Gateway limits
- Unlimited Developer Portals
- Unlimited published APIs
- Unlimited Service Catalog services
- Audit Logs
- SSO
- Dedicated support and customer success
Pricing extracted from Kong Konnect's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Kong Konnect free forever?
No. Kong Konnect offers a time-limited trial, about 30 days long, after which you subscribe to a paid plan or lose access.
Does Kong Konnect require a credit card?
No. You can start on Kong Konnect's free tier without entering card details.
What is Kong Konnect's free tier worth?
Kong Konnect's free tier is worth about a 30-day free trial. That maps to an FTV score of 25/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
