# Kong **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kong/ **APIs profiled:** 139 Kong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on NGINX and Lua), Kong Konnect (the SaaS control plane), Kong AI Gateway (LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic governance with semantic caching, token budgeting, and prompt firewalls), Kong Agent Gateway, Kong Event Gateway (Kafka-native governance), Kong Mesh (service mesh on Kuma and Envoy), Kong MCP Registry (centralized directory of MCP servers and tools for AI agents), Kong Context Mesh, and Kong Insomnia (API design and testing). Together they unify governance across APIs, real-time event streams, LLM calls, MCP tools, and agent-to-agent communication for the agentic era. ## Kin Score — 51.2 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.0 from 50.2). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 57.4 | | Contract Quality | 67.5 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 52.6 | | Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 | | Commercial Clarity | 55.3 | | Access Clarity | 55.3 | ## Agent readiness — 48.1 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | verified | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high). ## APIs (139) - **Kong Gateway** — Kong Gateway is the open-source, lightweight, cloud-native API gateway optimized for microservices, delivering low-latency performance and scalability through a rich plugin ecos... - **Kong AI Gateway** — Kong AI Gateway is the connectivity and governance layer for AI-native applications. Built on Kong Gateway, it provides a universal LLM API across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, ... - **Kong Agent Gateway** — Kong Agent Gateway is a capability of Kong AI Gateway (GA April 2026 with AI Gateway 3.14) that governs agent-to-agent (A2A) communication. It enforces agent identity verificati... - **Kong MCP Registry** — Kong MCP Registry (launched February 2026) is an enterprise directory inside Kong Konnect for registering, discovering, and governing MCP servers and AI-native tools. It provide... - **Kong Context Mesh** — Kong Context Mesh (launched February 2026, tech preview in Konnect) automatically discovers enterprise APIs, transforms them into agent-consumable tooling, packages them as MCP ... - **Kong Mesh** — Kong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh capabilities across Kubernetes and virtual machine environments. It suppo... - **Kong Insomnia** — Kong Insomnia is an open-source API development platform for designing, debugging, and testing APIs. It supports REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket protocols and provides collec... - **Kong ACLs API** — The ACLs API from Kong — 6 operation(s) for acls. - **Kong Add-Ons API** — The Add-Ons API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for add-ons. - **Kong API API** — The API API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api. - **Kong API Attributes API** — The API Attributes API from Kong — 1 operation(s) for api attributes. - **Kong API Documentation API** — The API Documentation API from Kong — 3 operation(s) for api documentation. - **Kong API Image API** — The API Image API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api image. - **Kong API Implementation API** — The API Implementation API from Kong — 3 operation(s) for api implementation. - **Kong API-keys API** — The API-keys API from Kong — 6 operation(s) for api-keys. - **Kong API Operations API** — The API Operations API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api operations. - **Kong API Package Documentation API** — The API Package Documentation API from Kong — 3 operation(s) for api package documentation. - **Kong API Package Image API** — The API Package Image API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api package image. - **Kong API Package Operations API** — The API Package Operations API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api package operations. - **Kong API Package Specification API** — The API Package Specification API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api package specification. - **Kong API Packages API** — The API Packages API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api packages. - **Kong API Publication API** — The API Publication API from Kong — 4 operation(s) for api publication. - **Kong API Specification API** — The API Specification API from Kong — 3 operation(s) for api specification. - **Kong API Version API** — The API Version API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for api version. - **Kong App Auth Strategies API** — Application Auth Strategies are sets of plugin configurations that represent how the gateway will perform authentication and authorization for a Product Version. Called “Auth St... - **Kong Application Registrations API** — APIs related to Konnect Developer Portal Application Registrations. - **Kong Applications API** — APIs related to Konnect Developer Portal Applications. - **Kong Assets API** — APIs for managing static assets for Konnect Developer Portals. - **Kong Auth Settings API** — The Auth Settings API from Kong — 8 operation(s) for auth settings. - **Kong Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Kong — 1 operation(s) for authentication. - **Kong Basic-auth credentials API** — The Basic-auth credentials API from Kong — 6 operation(s) for basic-auth credentials. - **Kong CA Certificates API** — A CA certificate object represents a trusted certificate authority. These objects are used by Kong Gateway to verify the validity of a client or server certificate. - **Kong Catalog Integrations API** — Integrations are applications, either Konnect-internal or external, which extend the functionality of the Service Catalog. Install and authorize an integration to discover the r... - **Kong Catalog Resource Mappings API** — Resource mappings represent the link between a resource and a service. Once a resource is mapped to a service, a rich view of the resource will be presented on the service page.... - **Kong Catalog Resource Services API** — Represents all the services mapped to a specific resource. - **Kong Catalog Resources API** — Resources are entities discovered from integration instances and are intended to be mapped to the relevant services in the catalog. Once a resource has been mapped to a service,... - **Kong Catalog Service API Mappings API** — Service API mappings represent the link between Service and API entities. Once an API is mapped to a Service, a rich view of the linked APIs will be presented on the APIs tab of... - **Kong Catalog Service Resources API** — Represents all the resources mapped to a specific service. - **Kong Catalog Services API** — Create and maintain a centralized catalog of all services running in your organization. Add custom fields and map resources from across your organization to provide a 360-degree... - **Kong Certificates API** — A certificate object represents a public certificate, and can be optionally paired with the corresponding private key. These objects are used by Kong Gateway to handle SSL/TLS t... - …and 99 more, listed in full on the page. ## MCP servers (1) - **MCP Server** ## Agentic access (1) - **Kong Agentic Access** — 1242 operations · 782 acting · 122 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **Kong Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes - **Kong Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Kong Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (7) - **API Gateway for Microservices** — Route, secure, and observe traffic to microservices with authentication, rate limiting, and request transformations. - **Multi-Cloud API Management** — Manage APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with centralized control through Kong Konnect. - **Zero-Trust Security** — Implement zero-trust security with mTLS, OAuth2, JWT validation, and API key authentication at the gateway layer. - **AI and Agent Connectivity** — Govern LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic with prompt firewalls, semantic caching, token budgets, and per-agent cost allocation. - **Kafka Governance at Scale** — Apply per-topic identity-aware policies and quotas to Kafka traffic without rebuilding producers and consumers. - **API Lifecycle Management** — Manage the full API lifecycle from design with Insomnia to deployment, monetization, and monitoring with Kong Konnect. - **Rate Limiting and Traffic Control** — Protect backend services with configurable rate limiting, request size limits, and traffic shaping policies. ## Tags API Gateway, AI Gateway, AI Connectivity, Agent Gateway, Event Gateway, MCP Registry, Service Mesh, LLM, Kafka, Konnect, Open-Source --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kong/). 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