Kong Inc., a developer of cloud API and AI technologies, announces Konnect Metering & Billing, powered by OpenMeter, a new solution designed to enable organisations to unlock new revenue streams by productising and effectively billing for their APIs, AI models, and data streams, turning digital assets into significant sources of income.
As organisations scale their AI initiatives, the need to monetise and manage usage across diverse digital services is growing. Companies also need the ability to rapidly iterate on their pricing and packaging to respond to the dynamic changing landscape.
Sophisticated AI workloads
However, fragmented visibility and billing processes often hinder effective revenue capture and cost control. This integration will address these challenges by providing unified API and AI metering, offering a singular view of usage that extends from traditional APIs to sophisticated AI workloads, ensuring comprehensive monitoring.
“By integrating OpenMeter into Kong Konnect, we're giving organisations the tools to transform their digital services into profitable assets while maintaining strong governance in the agentic AI era. This unified approach not only accelerates monetisation but also provides deep insights to optimise strategies, help reduce churn, and capitalise on emerging opportunities,” said Ross Kukulinski, VP of Product, Kong Inc.
Supporting direct monetisation
With this integration, users will soon be able to:
- Perform real-time usage metering with built-in integration in Kong API and AI Gateways, for seamless metering of existing API traffic.
- Create highly flexible, data-driven products and rate cards that can be easily market-tested, modified, and versioned to adapt to market demands quickly and optimise pricing safely.
- Implement robust entitlements, add-ons, and granular limits for unparalleled control over costs and real-time management of customer access to products and features.
- Generate invoices at the end of each billing cycle or on-demand, supporting direct monetisation through preferred payment gateways, as well as internal chargeback across departments.
- Access comprehensive dashboards and analytics for insights into key metrics such as revenue, churn rate, and future revenue opportunities, enabling businesses to fully capitalise on market potential.
- Plane–enabling organisations
Usage-based metering and billing
This announcement comes on the heels of Kong’s recent acquisition of OpenMeter, a pioneer open-source and SaaS platform for usage-based metering and billing.
Kong Konnect is the unified AI and API platform designed to support every aspect of modern API and AI connectivity. Enterprises can build, run, discover, and govern APIs, LLMs/MCPs, event streams, and microservices – all from a single, globally distributed control plane–enabling organisations to be ready for the Agentic AI era.