API Summit kicked off with our CEO and Co-Founder, @sonicaghi, taking the stage!
He discussed how AI connectivity is the future of the agentic era and Kong is the connectivity layer of AI.
Then, @slashdotpeter, co-founder of OpenMeter, joined him stage to discuss how with Kong's recent acquisition of OpenMeter, Kong Konnect is the only platform with metering, billing and enforcement all in one place. It is the platform for API and AI monetization, and metering and billing is how we power the AI connectivity era.
#APISummit25
Big news! OpenMeter is joining @kong
Together, we’re bringing metering, entitlements, and billing closer to where consumption happens: right at the API and AI layer.
You can read more about this news here: https://t.co/PKRlOJJBEO
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that we have acquired @openmeterio!
With this acquisition, we’re bringing advanced monetization capabilities to Kong Konnect, enabling organizations to productize and bill for their APIs, AI, and data streams. Customers will be able to seamlessly turn digital assets into new sources of revenue.
👋 Join us in welcoming OpenMeter to Kong! https://t.co/VBypPwXsh2
Billing complexity slows down growth. Every pricing change, new package, or deal adds technical debt.
@OpenmeterIO offers scalable metering, flexible pricing & automated billing in one platform— giving teams control without draining engineering resources. https://t.co/ZNZWUoSG7s
@anjuls@CloudNativeFdn We're trying to fill this gap with OpenMeter. We're deeply invested in the CNCF ecosystem, which is why we have the project under the Apache 2.0 license. Please open an issue or start a discussion in the repo and share your use case and ideas with us.
Today, we are announcing OpenMeter Entitlements!
Control usage limits like monthly token allowance and customer feature access.
https://t.co/8ECmvJXDeW
Last week I talked about OpenMeter’s stream processing journey at the Cloud Native Budapest meetup. This talk is about metering, Kafka and ClickHouse.
https://t.co/V5FeLBNXYO
AI and compute-intense workloads necessitate better *open* standards in metering and billing.
@slashdotpeter@tthndrs draw from experiences at Stripe & Netflix to deliver the goods..
We are happy to announce our $3M seed round from @ycombinator , @haystackvc, and Sunflower Capital to help engineers monetize AI products and standardize usage metering.
https://t.co/lJOz4mKZ37
🏆 Exciting news! @openmeterio is a TOP 10 SEMIFINALIST in the Confluent Data Streaming Startup Challenge! 🚀
OpenMeter Cloud runs its Kafka workload on Confluent Cloud to ingest real-time usage events into ClickHouse.
Learn more: https://t.co/9OAflXgMxp
At @openmeterio we ❤️ Benthos.
Here is how we are integrating it into our ecosystem: https://t.co/GQ1g1V6xyy
You can now easily ingest usage data into OpenMeter from ANYWHERE without having to build and maintain a custom integration.
cc @Jeffail