# Kong Konnect

> Unified API platform for building, running, discovering, governing, and monetizing APIs, AI gateways, and event streaming at enterprise scale.

Kong Konnect is a comprehensive API management platform that enables organizations to build, run, discover, govern, and monetize their APIs, AI connectivity, and event streaming infrastructure. The platform serves as a unified control layer for managing API gateways, AI gateways, MCP servers, and real-time data feeds, helping enterprises eliminate fragmentation and accelerate AI innovation at scale.

- **API Gateway** provides enterprise-grade performance for building, securing, and managing REST, HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs with high availability and scalability across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments.

- **AI Gateway** enables organizations to build a unified, secure, and cost-effective multi-LLM interface for AI agents and MCP servers to interact with large language models across the enterprise.

- **Developer Portal** makes it easy for developers and AI agents to discover, access, and consume APIs as self-service, reusable assets with built-in documentation and onboarding workflows.

- **Service Catalog** provides centralized visibility and governance over all API services, enabling teams to track, manage, and maintain consistency across their API ecosystem.

- **Advanced Analytics** delivers deep insights into API traffic, performance metrics, and usage patterns with 14-month data retention for comprehensive observability.

- **Metering and Billing** allows organizations to monetize APIs, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and event data with usage-based pricing models and revenue tracking.

- **CI/CD Integration** automates the entire API lifecycle as part of GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code strategies, enabling shift-left security practices.

- **Runtime Management** provides centralized control over serverless, hybrid, and dedicated cloud gateways across multiple regions and cloud providers including AWS, GCP, and Azure.

To get started, sign up for a free 30-day trial with full enterprise functionality, no credit card required. The platform supports deployment anywhere—cloud, on-premises, or hybrid—and integrates with existing CI/CD pipelines and observability tools through OpenTelemetry support.

## Features
- API Gateway for REST, HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, and GraphQL
- AI Gateway for multi-LLM management
- MCP Gateway for intelligent integration patterns
- Event Gateway for Kafka and real-time data
- Developer Portal for API discovery and onboarding
- Service Catalog for API governance
- Advanced Analytics with 14-month retention
- Metering and Billing for API monetization
- Serverless, Hybrid, and Dedicated Cloud Gateways
- CI/CD and GitOps integration
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- SSO and audit logging
- OpenTelemetry observability support
- Plugin ecosystem with 400+ integrations

## Integrations
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, HashiCorp Vault, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

## Platforms
WEB, API, LINUX, WINDOWS, MACOS

## Pricing
Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades

## Links
- Website: https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect
- Documentation: https://developer.konghq.com/konnect/
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/kong-konnect