---
name: Kong Inc.
domain: konghq.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: platform payments and embedded finance
descGrounded: 0.66
---

# Kong Inc.

An API management and AI connectivity company selling a unified API platform that includes API gateways, AI gateways, event gateways, service mesh, and developer tools to platform and AI teams.

**Route:** surfaced by the platform payments and embedded finance lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells API gateway and API management capabilities that a buyer evaluating Stripe's Connect or its underlying API infrastructure would compare against instead of building that infrastructure with the anchor.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> API Management

> AI Management

> API Gateway
