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title: "Kong: MCP vendor profile | Agent MCP Directory"
description: "Kong: gateway or proxy. Products: AI MCP Proxy plugin, plus 1 more. 5 dated facts, prices, standards and two checks, each sourced, read 5 November 2026."
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last_updated: 2026-11-05
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# Kong: MCP vendor profile | Agent MCP Directory

> Kong: gateway or proxy. Products: AI MCP Proxy plugin, plus 1 more. 5 dated facts, prices, standards and two checks, each sourced, read 5 November 2026.

Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/kong
Site: Agent MCP Directory
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05

# Kong: MCP vendor profile

Kong turns APIs behind Kong Gateway or published in its Dev Portal into MCP servers, proxies MCP traffic with the AI MCP Proxy plugin, and lists an AI Registry product, on-premises or in Konnect, as documented by the vendor. Kong's product menu lists an "AI Registry" marked NEW alongside AI Gateway and Context Mesh (konghq.com).

## At a glance

| Listed as | Kong (AI Gateway, MCP Traffic Gateway) |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Gateways and proxies |
| Also covers | registry or directory |
| Home | developer.konghq.com |
| Price | AI Gateway Enterprise |
| Read | 5 November 2026 |

## What it does for this layer

Kong offers two ways to expose APIs as MCP servers: AI Gateway, which converts any Gateway API into an MCP server, and Dev Portal, which generates one from APIs already published there ([developer.konghq.com](https://developer.konghq.com/mcp/)). The AI MCP Proxy plugin acts as a protocol bridge between MCP and HTTP, with a mode parameter that proxies MCP requests, converts RESTful APIs into MCP tools, or exposes grouped tools as an MCP server ([developer.konghq.com](https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/ai-mcp-proxy/)).

In conversion modes the Kong plugin maps each MCP tool call to an OpenAPI operation and must be scoped to a Route; consumer and consumer-group scoping is not supported in any mode ([developer.konghq.com](https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/ai-mcp-proxy/)). Kong's MCP Traffic Gateway works on-premises and in Konnect ([developer.konghq.com](https://developer.konghq.com/mcp/)).

## Products and plans

| Product | What it does | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AI MCP Proxy plugin | MCP-to-HTTP bridge and REST-to-MCP conversion in Kong AI Gateway. | AI Gateway Enterprise; Enterprise tier only (source, as of 5 November 2026) |
| Dev Portal MCP servers | MCP servers generated from APIs published in a Kong Dev Portal. | price not read |

## Standards

| Standard | Part of it | Status | What the page says | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenAPI | OpenAPI to tools | Supports | Conversion maps MCP tool calls to OpenAPI operations. | developer.konghq.com |

## Checks on its own domain

| Check | Domain | Result | Scanned | Method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ora cached score | konghq.com | 71 of 100, grade B | 1 November 2026 | how it was taken |
| Cloudflare agent-readiness scan | konghq.com | 20 of 100, L1 Basic Web Presence; 3 of 15 counted checks passed | 5 November 2026 | how it was taken |

## What it does not do

-   Kong's MCP plugin is not in the free or open-source edition ([developer.konghq.com](https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/ai-mcp-proxy/)).

## Related on this site

Hosts page

-   [Kong AI Gateway](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/kong-ai-gateway/)

Type

-   [Gateways and proxies](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/by-type/gateway/)
-   [Registries and directories](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/by-type/registry/)

Standards

-   [OpenAPI](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/standards/openapi-as-agent-surface/)

Section

-   [All vendors](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/)

Edition

4 November 2026

Method

[How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/)

Data

[CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/)

Markdown

[This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/kong/index.md)

## Sources

-   [developer.konghq.com/mcp/](https://developer.konghq.com/mcp/), read 5 November 2026
-   [developer.konghq.com/plugins/ai-mcp-proxy/](https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/ai-mcp-proxy/), read 5 November 2026
-   [Kong Pricing for API and AI Connectivity Platform | Konnect | Kong Inc.](https://konghq.com/pricing), read 5 November 2026

Last reviewed 5 November 2026