Kong
A cloud-native, high-performance API and AI Gateway for orchestrating microservices, LLM, and MCP traffic with extensible plugins.
What is Kong?
Kong Gateway is a cloud-native, platform-agnostic gateway that manages and secures API, AI (LLM), and MCP traffic. It solves the complexity of orchestrating microservices and AI workloads by providing advanced routing, load balancing, authentication, and extensibility through plugins. It acts as a central layer for traffic management across diverse architectures.
Platform engineers, DevOps teams, and developers building microservices architectures or integrating multiple AI/LLM providers who need a scalable, unified gateway solution.
Developers choose Kong for its high performance, extensive plugin ecosystem, and flexibility in deployment (including hybrid and DB-less modes). It uniquely combines traditional API gateway features with advanced AI traffic capabilities, supporting multiple LLM providers and MCP governance without vendor lock-in.
Overview
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
Use Cases
Best For
- Orchestrating microservices with centralized authentication and rate limiting
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