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> like setting up plans, accepting payments

I might be stupid here, but I have not seen any mention of Kong handling those things on their website.

Not sure about Kong specifically, but monetization is a common feature API gateways support (Apigee)

Monetization is not built-in in most spi gateways / manager. You need to connect then to your payment provider.

Which is fairly easy with most products though.