Kong Inc. launches Konnect Metering & Billing solution

16 Oct 2025

Kong Inc. has introduced Konnect Metering & Billing, a new offering aimed at helping organisations monetise their digital assets like APIs, AI models, and data streams. Developed with OpenMeter, this solution seeks to transform digital services into revenue-generating resources in response to an increasing demand for managing and monetising AI initiatives effectively.

As AI-driven projects expand, there is a growing necessity for businesses to efficiently oversee and profit from diverse digital offerings. This requires them to swiftly adapt pricing structures to remain competitive in a rapidly shifting environment. However, fragmented billing mechanisms can obstruct revenue optimisation and cost management.

Comprehensive API and AI monitoring

The integration within Konnect Metering & Billing aims to resolve these issues by offering a holistic approach to metering that spans traditional APIs as well as advanced AI workloads. Kong's solution provides a unified view of usage, enhancing transparency and oversight.

Ross Kukulinski, VP of Product at Kong Inc., stated, “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.”

Real-time metering and flexible pricing

The integration equips users with the capability for real-time usage metering facilitated by Kong's API and AI Gateways. This allows for the seamless monitoring of existing API traffic.

Furthermore, organisations can develop adaptable, data-driven products and adjust pricing easily to meet market demands, optimise rates, and ensure pricing aligns with business goals. Users can also benefit from robust features like granular control over costs, real-time customer access management, and generating invoices either at regular intervals or on-demand.

Enhanced insights and revenue opportunities

Konnect Metering & Billing provides businesses with access to detailed analytics dashboards

Konnect Metering & Billing provides businesses with access to detailed analytics dashboards, offering insights into crucial metrics like revenue, churn rates, and potential revenue streams, all of which empower organisations to fully exploit market possibilities. Additionally, the system supports direct monetisation via preferred payment gateways and internal departmental chargebacks.

Following its acquisition of OpenMeter, a pioneer in open-source and SaaS metering and billing solutions, Kong has enhanced its unified AI and API platform, Kong Konnect.

This platform supports multiple facets of API and AI connectivity, enabling organisations to build, manage, and govern APIs, large language models/machine learning models, event streams, and microservices. It ensures that organisations are well-prepared for the evolving demands of the agentic AI era.

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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.

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