---
name: Kong Inc.
domain: konghq.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.73
---

# Kong Inc.

An API and AI connectivity platform selling gateway, service mesh, and AI runtime management to platform engineers and AI teams.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells API and AI gateway capabilities to the same platform engineers and AI/agent builders that shortlist Vercel for deploying and scaling AI-powered workloads.

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

> API Gateway

> AI Gateway HOT

> Service Mesh

**Edges:**

- competitor [[plane-so]]
- competitor [[middleware-io]]
- competitor [[truefoundry-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[portkey-ai]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[api7-ai]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[zuplo-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[llmgateway-io]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[zuplo-com]] *(inferred)*
- discusses [[dev-to]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[moesif-com]] *(inferred)*
- integration [[vercel-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[portkey-ai]] *(inferred)*
