Kong AI Gateway
AI plugins that turn the Kong API gateway into a multi-LLM gateway.
A set of plugins for Kong Gateway that proxy requests to many LLM providers behind one API, with prompt templates, prompt guards and request/response transforms. Fits teams that already run Kong for their APIs; the plugins ship in the open-source gateway, and Kong’s commercial platform adds enterprise governance.
- Vendor
- Kong
- Category
- AI gateways
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Platforms
- Self-hosted, Kubernetes, Cloud
- Launched
- 2024
- Website
- konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway
Features
- Multi-LLM proxy
- Prompt guard
- Prompt templates
- Request transforms
Best for
- Enterprise
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