Comparison

Kong AI Gateway vs Not Diamond

On the evidence we track, Not Diamond leads this comparison with a composite score of 62/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Kong AI Gateway53
★Not Diamond62
Score
vioscaleAI score
Kong AI Gateway53 / 100low · 34%
Not Diamond62 / 100medium · 60%
Pricing
Free tier
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
Model
Kong AI Gatewayfreemium
Not Diamondcommercial
Price level
Kong AI Gatewaylow
Not Diamondlow
Starting price
Kong AI Gateway–
Not Diamond$0.05
Transparent
Kong AI Gateway✗
Not Diamond✓
Integrations
Count
Kong AI Gateway11
Not Diamond–
Security
Certifications
Kong AI Gateway–
Not DiamondSOC 2, ISO 27001
Gdpr
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
Iso27001
Kong AI Gateway–
Not Diamond✓
Soc2
Kong AI Gateway–
Not Diamond✓
Trust center
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Kong AI Gateway6 items
Not Diamond–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for llm gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Automatic failover
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Routing strategy
Kong AI GatewayCustom
Not DiamondCustom
Caching
Kong AI GatewaySemantic
Not Diamond-
Virtual key management
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Budget spend controls
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Rate limiting
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Guardrails moderation
Kong AI GatewayBuilt in
Not Diamond-
Request cost observability
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✓
Streaming support
Kong AI Gateway-
Not Diamond-
Deployment model
Kong AI GatewaySelf hosted
Not DiamondManaged SaaS
Open source
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Pricing model
Kong AI GatewayOpen source self host
Not DiamondUsage based saas

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Kong AI Gateway

A cloud-native gateway platform that manages traffic between applications and large language model providers, offering multi-provider routing with automatic failover, semantic caching, cost visibility, compliance guardrails, and audit logging—without requiring changes to application code.

Independently observed

Not Diamond

Leader

A model routing service for coding agents that uses machine learning to predict and recommend the most cost-effective and accurate AI model for each request. Engineering teams typically achieve 20-40% cost savings without quality degradation through continuous learning from real usage patterns.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Kong AI Gateway

HybridFree tier
as of verify ↗

Not Diamond

Leader
from $0.05/million tokensUsage-based

$0.05 per million tokens; enterprise plans available

  • Pay-as-you-go$0.05 per million tokens routed
    • Multi-harness support
    • Multi-provider support
    • Savings and usage dashboard
    • Continuous learning from harness usage
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Volume-based discounts
    • Organization-wide analytics
    • Advanced security and admin controls
    • SSO with SAML
    • Privacy-preserving deployment
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
Linux
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
CLI
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✓
Self-hosted
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✗
On-premise
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✗
Hybrid
Kong AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Kong AI Gateway

28 total
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • AWS Bedrock
  • GCP Gemini
  • Azure AI
  • Databricks
  • Mistral
  • Huggingface
  • Llama
  • AWS Bedrock Guardrails
  • Azure Content Safety
  • Google Cloud Model Armor
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Git
  • CertManager
  • Google Cloud Gemini
  • Hugging Face
  • Docusign
  • Kafka
  • AWS Kinesis
  • Google Pub/Sub
  • RabbitMQ
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Not Diamond

Leader

Not documented yet.

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