API Gateway vs AI Gateway - What Actually Changed?

Kong's AI Gateway applies the same architectural pattern as the API Gateway — now governing LLM, MCP, and agent traffic at the infrastructure layer.

Just as API gateways abstracted rate limiting, auth, and caching across microservices, AI gateways do the same for large language models and agents — with token budgets, semantic caching, and semantic routing replacing their REST equivalents. Kong breaks this into three layers: LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway for tool calls, and Agents Gateway for agent-to-agent traffic.
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