How much does Kong cost?

Kong publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Kong Konnect Free Trial up to On request for Kong Konnect Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Kong Konnect Free Trial and Kong Insomnia Essentials on Kong?

Kong Insomnia Essentials costs Free against Free, and adds unlimited projects and cli access, up to 3 git sync users, 1,000 mock server requests per month, end-to-end encryption.

Is the Kong Konnect Plus plan on Kong worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is per gateway pricing billed monthly, up to 5 serverless gateways, 2 hybrid, 2 dedicated cloud gateways, 1m api requests included per month, $200 per 1m additional requests (max 10m). It costs On request against $12/month for Kong Insomnia Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

What am I actually paying for with Kong?

The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api gateway management and routing, api development and testing, enterprise api security and governance.

Does Kong charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Kong prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Kong against before paying?

The closest apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Kong covering price, platforms and features.

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Kong pricing

Kong publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Kong pricing is free across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Yes

Kong plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Kong pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Kong Konnect Free Trial	Free	5	Entry tier
Kong Insomnia Essentials	Free	4	+$0/user, 4 more features
Kong Insomnia Pro	$12/month	5	+$12/month, 5 more features
Kong Insomnia Enterprise	$45/month	4	+$33/month, 4 more features
Kong Konnect Plus	On request	6	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Kong Konnect Free Trial

Free

The entry tier. It covers 30-day free trial, full enterprise functionality, unlimited gateways, 30-day analytics retention, no credit card required.

Kong Insomnia Essentials

Free

Over Kong Konnect Free Trial, this tier adds:

Unlimited projects and CLI access
Up to 3 Git Sync users
1,000 mock server requests per month
End-to-end encryption

Kong Insomnia Pro

$12/month

Over Kong Insomnia Essentials, this tier adds:

Unlimited users with Git Sync access
Unlimited organizations
RBAC
10,000 mock server requests per month
15% savings with annual billing

Kong Insomnia Enterprise

$45/month

Over Kong Insomnia Pro, this tier adds:

Native Konnect integration
SSO (SAML/OIDC) and SCIM
Vault integrations
Unlimited mock server requests

Kong Konnect Plus

On request

Over Kong Insomnia Enterprise, this tier adds:

Per gateway pricing billed monthly
Up to 5 Serverless Gateways, 2 Hybrid, 2 Dedicated Cloud Gateways
1M API requests included per month
$200 per 1M additional requests (max 10M)
Developer portal included
Email support only

Where Kong stops being free

Kong Konnect Free Trial, Free

30-day free trial
Full enterprise functionality
Unlimited gateways
30-day analytics retention
No credit card required

Kong Insomnia Pro, $12/month

The first thing you pay for:

Unlimited users with Git Sync access
Unlimited organizations
RBAC
10,000 mock server requests per month
15% savings with annual billing

What the product covers

The full Kong feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

API Gateway
Authentication & Authorization
Rate Limiting

Integrations

Kubernetes
Consul
Eureka
PostgreSQL

Platform

Linux support
Docker support
Kubernetes support

People bring Kong in for api gateway management and routing, api development and testing, enterprise api security and governance. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Kong are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in APIs

Too few apis tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Kong entry price against other APIs tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Kong (this page)	Free	subscription	-
Mambu	On request	quote	-	vs Kong
Fintech Farm	On request	quote	-	vs Kong
Flybits	On request	quote	-	vs Kong
Neonomics	On request	quote	-	vs Kong
Brite Payments	On request	quote	-	vs Kong
Meniga	On request	quote	-	vs Kong

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Kong badges page.

Before you pay for Kong

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Kong runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, and is published by Kong Inc. of San Francisco, California, USA. The full record is on the Kong review, and the rest of the category is under best apis tools.

Kong pricing on the vendor's own site

Kong pricing questions

How much does Kong cost?: Kong publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Kong Konnect Free Trial up to On request for Kong Konnect Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Kong have a free plan?: Yes. The Kong Konnect Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers 30-day free trial, full enterprise functionality, unlimited gateways. Paying starts at $12/month for Kong Insomnia Pro.
What is the difference between Kong Konnect Free Trial and Kong Insomnia Essentials on Kong?: Kong Insomnia Essentials costs Free against Free, and adds unlimited projects and cli access, up to 3 git sync users, 1,000 mock server requests per month, end-to-end encryption.
Is the Kong Konnect Plus plan on Kong worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is per gateway pricing billed monthly, up to 5 serverless gateways, 2 hybrid, 2 dedicated cloud gateways, 1m api requests included per month, $200 per 1m additional requests (max 10m). It costs On request against $12/month for Kong Insomnia Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
What am I actually paying for with Kong?: The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api gateway management and routing, api development and testing, enterprise api security and governance.
Does Kong charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Kong prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Kong against before paying?: The closest apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Kong covering price, platforms and features.