Kong AI Gateway
enterprise api governance applied to model traffic, priced opaquely
the right answer if kong is already your api layer, and the hardest product here to price before you talk to sales.
kong's argument is coherent: your model calls are api traffic, so they should sit behind the same quotas, access control, pii handling and l7 observability as everything else you run. the ai gateway adds llm governance, token usage management, semantic caching, cost tracking, mcp server generation and governance, and agent-to-agent traffic management on top of the existing kong konnect control plane.
it does not resell inference. you bring your own provider credentials and kong adds nothing per token, charging instead for gateway capacity — so a million input tokens of claude sonnet 4.5 costs anthropic's list price and $0 in kong markup.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- llm gateways
- pricing
- not published
- website
- konghq.com
the right answer if kong is already your api layer, and the hardest product here to price before you talk to sales.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.