Kong builds infrastructure for companies managing APIs and AI services at scale. The company's platform provides a unified system for API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes, and ingress controllers, designed to improve developer productivity, security, and performance in cloud-native environments. Its API Gateway is described as the world's most adopted, and the platform supports workloads handling hundreds of billions of API calls daily.
With over 700 enterprise customers worldwide, Kong operates across industries that depend on digital experiences and software development. Its core technical domains span API management, AI gateways, service meshes, ingress controllers, and cloud-native infrastructure. The company positions its platform as enabling organizations to securely adopt AI and operate as API-first businesses.
Products include the Kong API Gateway, the Cloud API Platform for delivering digital experiences, and a Unified Platform that consolidates multiple infrastructure components. Kong describes itself as a team of engineers and problem-solvers focused on APIs as foundational to modern software.