Kong AI Gateway
https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway
Kong's gateway for governing LLM, MCP and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic in one place. It controls access, data leakage and token usage for LLM calls, and generates and secures MCP servers for agents.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 14 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T3
- Section
- MCP gateways & registries
- Created
- 2014-11-17 repo fix
- Latest release
- last commit 2026-10-19 repo fix
- GitHub
- https://github.com/Kong/kong (44321★) repo fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-core (estimate) fix
- Protocols
- a2a, mcp-server, opentelemetry vendor fix
- Compliance
- ccpa, csa-star, gdpr, iso27001, pci-dss, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Claims & capabilities
Govern LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic with the same Kong AI Gateway.
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
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- Deployment
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- Embedding model
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- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (13 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Product vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Kong's gateway for governing LLM, MCP and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic in one place. It … vendor
- Claims / benefits Govern LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic with the same Kong AI Gateway. vendor
- Created 2014-11-17 repo
- Latest release last commit 2026-10-19 repo
- License Apache-2.0 (Kong Gateway OSS); enterprise features proprietary vendor
- GitHub https://github.com/Kong/kong (44321★) repo
- Mindshare 44321 GitHub stars repo
- Project & sources https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway ; https://github.com/Kong/kong vendor
- cost-semantic-caching yes vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications ccpa,csa-star,gdpr,iso27001,pci-dss,soc2-type2 vendor
- protocol-support a2a,mcp-server,opentelemetry vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-30 Added to the catalog #347
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References (16)
- Alibaba Qwen 3 family integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a DashScope (Qwen) AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Amazon Bedrock Guardrails integrates with — Kong has an AI AWS Guardrails plugin. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Anthropic AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- AWS SageMaker integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a SageMaker AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Azure AI Content Safety Prompt Shields integrates with — Kong has an AI Azure Content Safety plugin. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Command R+ / Command A integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Cohere AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- DeepSeek R1 / V3 family integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a DeepSeek AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Cloud Model Armor integrates with — Kong has an AI GCP Model Armor plugin. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Gemini AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Lakera Guard / Lakera Red integrates with — Kong has an AI Lakera Guard plugin. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Mistral AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Kong has an AI MCP Proxy plugin. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a OpenAI AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI Gateway integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Vercel (AI Gateway) AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- vLLM integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a vLLM AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- xAI Grok 4 integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a xAI AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)