Kong/kong
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
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![][kong-url] Kong or Kong Gateway is a cloud-native, platform-agnostic, scalable API 𖧹 LLM 𖧹 MCP Gateway distinguished for its high performance and extensibility via plugins. It also provides advanced AI traffic capabilities with multi-LLM support, semantic security, MCP traffic security and analytics, and more. By providing functionality for proxying, routing, load balancing, health checking, authentication (and more), Kong serves as the central layer for orchestrating microservices or conventional API traffic - and agentic LLM and MCP as well - with ease. Kong runs natively on Kubernetes thanks to its official Kubernetes Ingress Controller. ![][kong-url] Installation | Documentation | Discussions | Forum | Blog | Builds | AI Gateway | Cloud Hosted Kong If you prefer to use a cloud-hosted Kong, you can sign up for a free trial of Kong Konnect and get started in minutes. If not, you can follow the instructions below to get started with Kong on…
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- Getting Started
- Getting started with AI Gateway for LLM and MCP
- Features
- Plugin Hub
- Contributing
- Releases
- Join the Community
- Konnect Cloud
- License
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What this repository does
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
Repository facts
- Owner
- Kong
- Primary language
- Lua
- Stars
- 44,338
- Forks
- 5,237
- Open issues + pull requests
- 225
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2014-11-17T23:56:08.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-19T02:45:09.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai, ai-gateway, api-gateway, api-management, apis, artificial-intelligence, cloud-native, devops, kubernetes, kubernetes-ingress, kubernetes-ingress-controller, llm-gateway, llm-ops, mcp, mcp-gateway, microservice, microservices, openai-proxy, reverse-proxy, serverless
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