Kong API and AI Gateway

A unified connectivity platform processing over one trillion API and AI requests daily for enterprise organizations including HSBC, BMW, United Airlines, and SeatGeek. The platform evolved from traditional API gateway capabilities into a full AI connectivity layer that manages token-based traffic alongside REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven protocols. Core products include an open-source gateway engine deployed across 182,000 community organizations with over 330 million downloads, a managed cloud platform with 99.99% availability SLAs, a dedicated AI gateway providing semantic caching and token budget controls, an event gateway for Kafka and WebSphere MQ integration, and an API client with testing and mocking capabilities. The platform handles dynamic rate limiting across multiple dimensions, token-level monetization with usage metering, and policy enforcement through plugins written in Lua, Go, JavaScript, Python, or WebAssembly. An AI-powered migration assistant reduces upgrade timelines by 50% by analyzing existing configurations and generating migration scripts. The company hosts the annual API and AI Summit conference, publishes the State of API and AI report based on traffic from 1,000-plus enterprise customers, and maintains offices in San Francisco, London, and Singapore. Customer deployments report 57% operational cost reduction and 70% faster API provisioning compared to legacy gateways.