Independent gateway
Kong AI Gateway
Pricing, fees and features
konghq.comChecked Sep 23, 2026
- Fee on tokens
- None
- $100 a month per model proxied (Konnect Plus); no token fee
- BYOK fee
- No BYOK
- Entry plan
- $100/mo
- Konnect Plus
- Hosting
- Both
Features
- Fallbacks
- Load balancing
- Caching
- Guardrails
- Observability
- Rate limits
- Budgets
- Prompts
- OpenAI-compatible
- Bring your own key
- Data residency
- Private networking
What it costs on real workloads
Claude Sonnet 5$400.00vs $400.00 direct
GPT-6 Sol$400.00vs $400.00 direct
Gemini 3.8 Flash$150.00vs $150.00 direct
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$27.00vs $27.00 direct
100M input and 20M output tokens a month, paying with gateway credits.
The terms, in their words
Set of AI plugins on the Kong API gateway that add multi-provider routing, load balancing, semantic caching, guardrails and token rate limiting.
- Markup
- Priced per model proxied, not per token; no token markup mentioned.
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial with Enterprise functionality, $0, no credit card
- Providers
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI, Amazon Bedrock, Gemini, Vercel and others (count not stated)
- $100/month per model
- Custom, volume discounts available
- Enterprise functionality for free for 30 days
Source: konghq.com/pricing
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