API analytics · Kong Inc.

Kong

API and AI gateway company whose Konnect control plane includes metered traffic, error, and LLM-cost analytics on top of the open-source gateway.

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Kong is an API and AI gateway company; its Konnect cloud control plane bundles Advanced Analytics on top of the open-source Kong Gateway data plane, covering request volume, latency, error rates, and consumer-level traffic across REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, Kafka, and LLM endpoints. The AI Gateway component adds token-based cost analytics and semantic-cache hit rates for LLM traffic. Analytics ships as part of Konnect rather than as a standalone product: the Plus plan includes a base volume of analyzed requests with metered overage, and Enterprise removes metering below a contracted ceiling. Kong Gateway itself remains open source (Apache-2.0) and can run self-hosted, but the analytics and reporting layer requires Konnect. Analytics data retention is 14 months on paid Konnect plans.

At a glance

Vendor Kong Inc.
Pricing model Usage-based
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No
Best for Platform teams running Kong Gateway who want usage, cost, and performance analytics natively in the same control plane.

Pricing

Konnect's Plus plan meters advanced analytics by request volume with published add-on rates; Enterprise analytics is unlimited under a custom quote, and a 30-day full-platform trial is available.

Plan Price Notes
Free Trial $0 for 30 days No credit card required, full platform access
Plus from $200/month per control plane (Hybrid Gateway) First 1M analyzed API requests/month included; $20 per additional 1M requests
Enterprise custom, billed annually Unlimited analytics below 1B contracted requests/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features

  • Real-time traffic, latency, and error dashboards
  • Consumer-level usage breakdowns
  • AI Gateway token-cost and semantic-cache analytics
  • OpenTelemetry support across tiers
  • 14-month analytics data retention on paid plans
  • Multi-protocol coverage (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, Kafka, LLM)
  • Developer portal with per-app usage visibility

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Head to head

Alternatives

Google Apigee Google Cloud's API management platform ships built-in traffic, error, and developer-app analytics as part of the gateway, not as a separate product. Moesif API analytics and usage-based billing platform that turns raw API traffic into per-customer usage dashboards and metered invoices. Treblle Runtime intelligence platform that captures full, unsampled API traffic for observability, governance, and security across gateways and clouds.

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Terms to know

Dashboard A visual display of the metrics a team needs to monitor, usually updated on a schedule or in real time. Data observability Continuous automated monitoring of pipelines and datasets to catch freshness, volume and quality problems early.

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