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Kong Launches 'Konnect Metering & Billing'

Kong Inc., a leading company in API management headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, has recently announced the launch of its new solution, Konnect Metering & Billing. This innovative tool integrates OpenMeter to help organizations monetize their APIs, AI models, and data streams effectively, turning digital assets into new revenue streams.

As organizations expand their AI initiatives, the need to monetize and manage the usage of diverse digital services has become increasingly critical. Furthermore, businesses are pressured to quickly adapt to market changes by optimizing their pricing and packaging strategies. However, challenges arise due to fragmented visibility and billing processes, which can hamper effective revenue assurance and cost management. This integration enables unified measurement of API and AI usage, offering comprehensive monitoring from traditional APIs to advanced AI workloads.

Ross Kukulinski, VP of Product at Kong Inc., emphasized the importance of this launch, stating, "By integrating OpenMeter into Kong Konnect, organizations can transform digital services into highly profitable assets while maintaining robust governance in the AI agent era. This unified approach not only accelerates monetization but also provides deep insights for strategy optimization, churn reduction, and seizing new opportunities."

With the implementation of Konnect Metering & Billing, users can now:

• - Seamlessly measure existing API traffic with real-time usage tracking integrated into the Kong API and AI gateway.
• - Create data-driven products and pricing tables that quickly respond to market demands while safely optimizing prices.
• - Implement robust permission settings, addons, and tiered restrictions for fine-grained cost management and real-time oversight of customer access to products and features.
• - Generate invoices at the end of each billing cycle or on demand, supporting direct monetization through desired payment gateways and inter-departmental internal billing.
• - Access comprehensive dashboards and analytics for insights on key metrics, including revenue, churn rate, and future revenue opportunities.

This announcement follows Kong's recent acquisition of OpenMeter, a major open-source and SaaS platform for usage-based metering and billing. Konnect Metering & Billing is set to launch as part of Kong Konnect in Q4 of 2025.

Kong Konnect serves as an integrated AI and API platform supporting every facet of modern API and AI connectivity. Businesses will be capable of building, operating, discovering, and managing APIs, LLM/MCPs, event streams, and microservices from a single global distributed control plane, enabling them to prepare for the agent AI era.

For more information on Konnect Metering & Billing, visit our website or sign up for early access.

About Kong

Kong is well-regarded as a leader in the API management sector, dedicated to helping companies globally become "API First" organizations. Built on the world's most adopted API gateway, Kong's integrated cloud API platform enhances developer productivity while delivering fast, secure, and scalable products and services that improve business digital experiences and accelerate innovation. For more details, please check our website or follow us on social media.

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