Kong Konnect vs Stigg
Kong Konnect
konghq.com
Stigg
stigg.ioSide by side
| Figure | Kong Konnect | Stigg |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $25/mo | $399/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 5 |
| Spec score · API Monetization Software | 8.3 (#7) | 7.8 (#17) |
| Deployment | Gateway infrastructure can be hybrid or Kong-managed in a selected cloud provider and region. | Stigg offers its hosted Cloud API, deployment in a customer's cloud environment (BYOC), and a bring-your-own-database option (BYODB). |
| Intended users | Konnect is positioned for platform builders and enables human and agentic builders to produce and consume APIs and enterprise connectivity. | The homepage presents Stigg for engineering teams managing usage, entitlements, and spending controls for AI products. |
Plans
Kong Konnect
- Free trialFree
- Plus - Serverless Gateway$25 a month
- Plus - Hybrid Gateway$200 a month
- Plus - Dedicated Cloud Gateway$500 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Plus (AI Management)$25 a month
- Enterprise (AI Management)Priced on request
Stigg
- BuildFree
- Pro (annual)$399 a month
- Pro (monthly)$499 a month
- BYOCPriced on request
- ScalePriced on request
In their own words
Kong Konnect
Kong Konnect has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Stigg
Stigg is a usage runtime for engineering teams managing access, usage, and spending controls for AI products. It combines credits, entitlements, metering, and governance. The credits engine includes wallets, ledgers, burn-downs, expiry rules, and priority consumption; entitlement rules can be changed outside the codebase without a deployment.
Stigg says its metering captures tokens, inference calls, and agent actions at throughput of 1M+ events per second, while entitlement checks have p99 latency under 10ms. Teams can set per-user, per-team, and per-agent budget caps enforced at call time. It layers on existing billing providers with two-way sync, naming Stripe and Zuora as examples. Deployment options include a hosted Cloud API, a customer's cloud environment, and a bring-your-own-database option. A free Build plan includes 10,000 managed entities and 5M monthly usage events. Pro costs $399 a month billed annually or $499 a month billed monthly.