Flow AI vs Kong AI Gateway

Kong AI Gateway extends the Kong API gateway with AI plugins: multi-provider proxying, prompt guards, rate limiting, and governance — infrastructure teams manage LLM traffic like any other API traffic.

What Kong AI Gateway optimizes for

Enterprise API-gateway governance applied to LLM traffic, self-managed.

• Fits existing Kong deployments and platform-team workflows
• Policy, security, and governance plugins at the gateway layer
• Self-hosted control over data path

What Flow AI does differently

• Flow is a managed routing service, not gateway software you operate
• Kong routes where your config says; Flow decides which model earns each request from measured cost-per-completed-task
• Billing consolidation: one invoice at pass-through + 2.5% across all providers, instead of N provider contracts fronted by a proxy
• Agent-grade protocol parity out of the box: OpenAI Chat, Anthropic Messages, and Responses with full tool-calling on all three

How to choose

Choose Kong when a platform team needs governed, self-hosted LLM traffic inside an existing Kong estate. Choose Flow AI when the goal is agents finishing more work for less money without operating gateway infrastructure.

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