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konghq.com/products/kong-konnect · API gateways
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Kong's managed control plane for its API gateway, billed per gateway per month rather than per request.

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Entry paid plan$25 a month per serverless control plane on the Plus tier, which allows up to five of them. Nothing is metered per request at that price — the charge is for running the gateway, not for the traffic through it.
Free tierYes
CategoryAPI gateways

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Running several gateways whose traffic you cannot forecast. The bill is per control plane per month — $25 serverless, $500 dedicated — so a spike in requests costs nothing extra, which is the opposite of every per-call competitor here.

Consider something else if…

Availability is the reason you are buying a gateway. The $25 serverless tier carries no SLA at all; 99.99% starts at the $500-a-month dedicated gateway, plus $0.15 per GB of bandwidth on top.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Pricing
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Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree trial
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What the free plan includesThirty days of the full enterprise feature set with no gateway limits and 30 days of analytics retention, then it stops. There is no standing free tier underneath it.
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  • Kong Pricing and Plans ↗

    “Enterprise functionality — for free — for 30 days - No Gateway limits - Analytics retained for 30 days”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Entry paid plan$25 a month per serverless control plane on the Plus tier, which allows up to five of them. Nothing is metered per request at that price — the charge is for running the gateway, not for the traffic through it.
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Pricing modelPer control plane per month, not per request. A serverless control plane is $25 a month and a dedicated cloud gateway is $500 a month plus $0.15 per GB of bandwidth, with volume discounts above that. The bill therefore tracks how many gateways you operate rather than how much traffic they carry — the opposite of every other member of this category.
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  • Kong Pricing and Plans ↗

    “$500/month per control plane Volume discounts available DCGW bandwidth cost”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Infrastructure
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Uptime SLA99.99% on dedicated cloud gateways. The serverless gateways that the $25 entry price buys carry NO SLA at all, which the plan table states in the same row — so the cheapest way into Kong is also the one with no availability commitment.
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