No AI without APIs. Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer for AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud.
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No. 1 in this week's Top 40 with large incumbents, up 1 from last week. Highest place 1, 3 weeks on the chart. See the chart.
Adds self-service Kafka capabilities and request rules for automated, governed data streaming access.
Kong · 5 Nov 2026 · 1 source · Vendor sources onlyTracks and attributes agent spending across teams, applications, and use cases rather than showing aggregated cloud invoices.
Kong · 4 Nov 2026 · 5 sources · Also reported independentlyExposes SaaS services like GitHub, Figma and Salesforce as MCP servers via corporate SSO with governed OAuth.
Kong · 4 Nov 2026 · 1 source · Vendor sources onlyThe integration provides unified governance for enterprise AI agents across multi-cloud environments.
Kong · 28 Oct 2026 · 1 source · Vendor sources onlyWorld Wide Technology built LLMaaS on Kong AI Gateway, handling 4.2B tokens and 162 consumers in one month.
Kong · 27 Oct 2026 · 1 source · Vendor sources onlyThe 5 latest of 8 in the last 180 days. Subscribers see all of them, with sources.
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