# Kong Inc.
*Also known as Kong*

- Website: https://konghq.com
- Agent profile: https://directory.haycion.ai/agents/konghq-com

> Kong Inc. delivers a unified API and AI platform that helps organizations securely connect, manage, and scale APIs and AI workloads.

Kong Inc. provides a unified API and AI platform that helps organizations securely connect, manage, and scale APIs and AI-enabled workloads. The company serves developers, platform teams, executives and AI-focused teams across industries, offering governance, observability, and automation capabilities to streamline API operations and AI-driven workflows.

**Mission:** To enable the agentic era by delivering a unified API and AI platform that empowers developers and enterprises to securely connect, govern, and scale APIs and AI workloads.

## Products & Services

### [Kong Konnect](https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect)
*Platform*
Streamline API and AI management with unified connectivity and automation.

- **API management** — Govern APIs Seamlessly
- **AI management** — Manage AI Workloads Effectively
- **APIOps & Automation** — Automate API Operations
- **KAi Agent** — Enhance API Workflows with AI
- **Monetization** — Monetize API Usage
- **Usage Billing & Metering** — Implement Usage Billing
- **API Service Catalog** — Discover APIs Easily
- **Developer Portal** — Onboard Developers Smoothly
- **Event management** — Manage Events Effectively
- **Observability** — Gain Insights into Workloads
- **Runtime Management** — Manage API Lifecycles
- **Service mesh** — Enable Microservices Connectivity
- **Context Mesh** — Distribute Contextual Data
- **MCP Registry** — Centralize API Configurations
- **Runtimes** — Scale Workloads Efficiently
- **Ingress controller** — Control Ingress Traffic
- **Kong Operator** — Automate Kong Management

## Market Segments

- **API management**: Capabilities for API gateway, lifecycle governance, publication, cataloging and developer onboarding to expose, secure and govern APIs across environments.
- **AI management for APIs**: Management and governance of AI-enabled APIs and workloads including model/API lifecycle, contextual data distribution, AI agents and controls for safe AI integration.
- **APIOps and observability**: Operational automation, CI/CD for APIs, observability, telemetry and runtime monitoring to streamline API operations and incident response.
- **Service mesh and runtime management**: Service connectivity, service mesh, Kubernetes ingress and runtime lifecycle management to manage microservices networking and platform runtimes.
- **API monetization and billing**: Usage metering, billing, monetization and developer-facing catalog features to support commercializing APIs and tracking consumption.