Kong AI Gateway Pricing (2026): Konnect Plus, Usage Fees and What Teams Actually Pay | Mintive Blog

Kong AI Gateway extends Kong’s established API management platform with AI-specific routing, governance, and Model Context Protocol capabilities, but its published Konnect Plus pricing can rise substantially beyond the $25 monthly serverless control plane fee through per-model charges, request overages, analytics, bandwidth, and separately billed LLM provider usage. The Plus tier’s five-model and 10-million-request limits may push organizations with multi-provider or high-volume deployments toward custom-priced Enterprise agreements, while hybrid and self-hosted configurations can introduce additional operational, infrastructure, plugin-development, and support costs. The broader AI gateway market includes cloud-native offerings from Cloudflare, Databricks, and Azure, as well as open-source options such as LiteLLM, with differing approaches to model routing, MCP governance, identity management, deployment, and observability. The discussion emphasizes that enterprise AI infrastructure increasingly requires more than API proxying, including agent-specific credentials, granular tool permissions, directory integration, audit trails, runtime security controls, cost tracking, caching, and policy enforcement. It presents Mintive as an agent-focused alternative centered on virtual MCP tool bundles, SCIM-driven access, independent agent identities, credential injection, and monitoring across AI clients, while encouraging organizations to assess total cost of ownership and governance requirements alongside subscription prices.

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