Spro vs Kong AI Gateway
Compare Spro, Kong AI Gateway on routing, caching, guardrails, observability, hosting and pricing.
Overview
Teams that want one API for every model with security guardrails, tracing and cost controls included, not bolted on.
Organizations that already run Kong for APIs and want AI traffic under the same controls.
Spro is an OpenAI-compatible API gateway for hundreds of models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, Groq and more. It handles fallbacks automatically and adds security guardrails, usage tracking and observability on every request.
Kong AI Gateway adds AI-specific plugins to Kong Gateway, the widely used API gateway. It standardizes calls to LLM providers and applies Kong's existing authentication and policy tooling.
Pricing
- Free · $0 (Free trial included · 0% markup)
- Paid plans · See pricing (Usage-based)
- Enterprise · Custom (Contact sales)
- Open source · $0
- Konnect · Usage-based
- Enterprise · Custom
Capabilities
Frequently asked questions
Route every AI request through SPRO.
One OpenAI-compatible API for 350+ models, with intelligent routing, 29 built-in guardrails, observability, and automatic failover.