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What are API Gateways?
API gateways act as centralized entry points that manage, secure, and route requests between clients and backend services in an application or microservices architecture. They handle essential functions such as authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, caching, and request transformation to optimize performance and security. By consolidating these controls, API gateways simplify communication, reduce latency, and ensure consistent governance across multiple APIs. They also provide analytics and monitoring to help developers track usage and detect issues in real time. Ultimately, API gateways improve scalability, reliability, and security for modern, distributed applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Gateways currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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KrakenD
KrakenD
KrakenD is a high-performance API Gateway optimized for resource efficiency, capable of managing 70,000 requests per second on a single instance. The stateless architecture allows for straightforward, linear scalability, eliminating the need for complex coordination or database maintenance. It supports various protocols and API specifications, with features like fine-grained access controls, data transformation, and caching. Unique to KrakenD is its ability to aggregate multiple API responses into one, streamlining client-side operations. Security-wise, KrakenD aligns with OWASP standards and doesn't store data, making compliance simpler. It offers a declarative configuration and integrates with third-party logging and metrics tools. With transparent pricing and an open-source option, KrakenD is a comprehensive API Gateway solution for organizations prioritizing performance and scalability. -
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Tyk
Tyk Technologies
Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.Starting Price: $600/month -
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Zuplo
Zuplo
We’re reinventing API & MCP management for everybody, from startups to enterprises. Add authentication, analytics, rate-limiting, and developer documentation to your APIs and MCP servers in minutes. Protect your API by adding rate-limiting with Zuplo in minutes, and add over 50 available plugins like authentication to your API with a single click. Zuplo was built on the edge and deployed to +300 data centers in the world, which makes multi-cloud deployments first-class. With Zuplo you can run different workloads in different clouds while enforcing a unified set of security policies. Zuplo is the only API gateway that runs your OpenAPI spec directly. Leverage the OpenAPI ecosystem to build your API, and then deploy it to Zuplo without additional configuration. Zuplo automatically generates beautiful docs for your API. You can customize the docs with markdown and devs can self-serve API Keys directly from your docs. You can also directly generate hosted MCP servers from your OpenAPI.Starting Price: $0 per month -
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Azure API Management
Microsoft
Manage APIs across clouds and on-premises: In addition to Azure, deploy the API gateways side-by-side with the APIs hosted in other clouds and on-premises to optimize API traffic flow. Meet security and compliance requirements while enjoying a unified management experience and full observability across all internal and external APIs. Move faster with unified API management: Today's innovative enterprises are adopting API architectures to accelerate growth. Streamline your work across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a single place for managing all your APIs. Help protect your resources: Selectively expose data and services to employees, partners, and customers by applying authentication, authorization, and usage limits. -
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Ambassador
Ambassador Labs
Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience -
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WSO2 API Manager
WSO2
One complete platform for building, integrating, and exposing your digital services as managed APIs in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures to drive your digital transformation strategy. Implement industry-standard authorization flows — such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, and JWTs — out of the box and integrate with your existing identity access or key management tools. Build APIs from existing services, manage APIs from internally built applications and from third-party providers, and monitor their usage and performance from inception to retirement. Provide real-time access to API usage and performance statistics to decision-makers to optimize your developer support, continuously improve your services, and drive further adoption to reach your business goals. -
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Kong Konnect
Kong
Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform brokers an organization’s information across all services. Built on top of Kong’s battle-tested core, Kong Konnect Enterprise enables customers to simplify management of APIs and microservices across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. With Kong Konnect Enterprise, customers can proactively identify anomalies and threats, automate tasks, and improve visibility across their entire organization. Stop managing your applications and services, and start owning them with the Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform. Kong Konnect Enterprise provides the industry’s lowest latency and highest scalability to ensure your services always perform at their best. Kong Konnect has a lightweight, open source core that allows you to optimize performance across all your services, no matter where they run. -
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3scale
Red Hat
3scale is the API infrastructure to build on now, and for the future. We make it easy to manage your APIs for internal or external users. Share, secure, distribute. Control who gets access to your APIs. Implement your corporate business, usage, and governance policies from a simple console. Package APIs in the tiers of service that make sense for your business. Take advantage of a wide range of authentication patterns and credentials to create the safest interactions for your partners, customers, and users. Plan, design, implement, publish, govern, operate, analyze, optimize, and retire your APIs from a one continuous experience. Implement this lifecycle in an open standard devops pipeline. Foster a community of users with a sophisticated developer portal. Design your own systems for provisioning developers and provide the content and tools they need with a CMS out of the box. Provide interactive documentation to speed developers to productive use.Starting Price: $750 per month -
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Apollo GraphOS
Apollo GraphQL
Apollo GraphOS is an API orchestration platform designed to help teams build, scale, and manage a unified supergraph across any number of services and applications. It brings together a secure, high-performance runtime layer with a centralized cloud management plane for seamless collaboration. Developers can unify REST APIs using Apollo Connectors, making it easy to migrate or integrate systems into GraphQL Federation. The GraphOS Router provides real-time capabilities, advanced caching, policy enforcement, and observability for large, distributed architectures. GraphOS Studio further enhances workflows with schema collaboration, CI/CD integration, and tooling that accelerates development. With flexible hosting options, GraphOS simplifies the delivery of modern, scalable GraphQL experiences.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Amazon API Gateway
Amazon
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. Using API Gateway, you can create RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs that enable real-time two-way communication applications. API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications. API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, CORS support, authorization and access control, throttling, monitoring, and API version management. API Gateway has no minimum fees or startup costs. You pay for the API calls you receive and the amount of data transferred out and, with the API Gateway tiered pricing model, you can reduce your cost as your API usage scales.Starting Price: $0.90 -
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Alibaba Cloud API Gateway
Alibaba Cloud
API Gateway provides API lifecycle management services, including API publishing, management, maintenance, and monetization. It enables simple and fast microservice integration, front and back end separation, and system integration at low costs and low risks. You can use API Gateway to share functions and data with your partners and third-party developers. Provides API documentation, SDKs, and API version management to reduce the daily maintenance costs. API Gateway supports distributed deployment and auto-scaling to respond to large numbers of requests with low latency. API Gateway activation and API management are free of charge. You only need to pay for APIs that you have called. API Gateway supports permission management, traffic throttling, monitoring, and alarms. You can allow API Gateway to access your services in the intranet without causing any security issues.Starting Price: $0.45 per million calls -
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Kong Gateway
Kong
The world’s most popular API gateway. Built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. Get started today – download Kong Gateway for free. Kong Gateway supports hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure, and includes a Kubernetes-native ingress solution and support for declarative configuration management. Kong Gateway is part of the Konnect managed connectivity platform. Konnect delivers connectivity functionality such as API Portals and AI-based anomaly detection, while providing the flexibility of running high performance connectivity runtimes. Use one of the many plugins developed by Kong or our community to add the functionality you need. Build your own plugin with our built in, well-documented plugin development kit. Configure Gateway natively using an API, web UI, or with declarative configuration to manage updates via your CI/CD pipelines.Starting Price: Free -
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APIPark
APIPark
APIPark is an open-source, all-in-one AI gateway and API developer portal, that helps developers and enterprises easily manage, integrate, and deploy AI services. No matter which AI model you use, APIPark provides a one-stop integration solution. It unifies the management of all authentication information and tracks the costs of API calls. Standardize the request data format for all AI models. When switching AI models or modifying prompts, it won’t affect your app or microservices, simplifying your AI usage and reducing maintenance costs. You can quickly combine AI models and prompts into new APIs. For example, using OpenAI GPT-4 and custom prompts, you can create sentiment analysis APIs, translation APIs, or data analysis APIs. API lifecycle management helps standardize the process of managing APIs, including traffic forwarding, load balancing, and managing different versions of publicly accessible APIs. This improves API quality and maintainability.Starting Price: Free -
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Akana API Platform
Akana by Perforce
Manage the full API lifecycle, deploy across multiple clouds, support digital transformation and ensure compliance, all from one API platform. As businesses look to further connect with their partners and customers, strength in API management is increasingly part of the digital transformation. Akana provides an end-to-end, full lifecycle API management tool for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. Well-suited for large diverse enterprises and federated API partner ecosystems, Akana can be deployed natively across clouds and on-premises, enables customers to deploy securely via an integrated no-code portal, and provides detailed business analytics. Generate deep business insights from your API traffic through configurable analytic reports. Socialize and manage your communities through targeted developer portals. -
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Gloo Gateway
Solo.io
Gloo Gateway by Solo.io is a cloud-native API management solution that provides comprehensive management across external, internal, and third-party APIs. Built on the industry-leading Envoy Proxy, Gloo Gateway supports both Layer 4 and Layer 7 protocols, ensuring flexibility and scalability for modern API architectures. It offers advanced features such as multi-cluster support, real-time analytics, and developer portal capabilities. The platform also ensures enhanced security with zero-trust policies, including automatic authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit for all API traffic. Gloo Gateway is designed for organizations looking to streamline API connectivity, optimize performance, and scale efficiently. -
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Oracle API Management
Oracle
Complete API Lifecycle Management solution that supports agile API development and makes it easy to keep an eye on KPIs. True hybrid API development on any cloud and on-premises that is modern and adaptable, employing the most up-to-date security protocols. Innovate quickly to increase efficiency and bump up your bottom line. Ensure the most up-to-date security policies are in place. Use the same integration tool for either cloud or on-premises deployment for full portability. Manage your cloud service using purpose-built cloud tooling for administrative operations like backup, restore, scale-out/in, or scale up/down. Full administrative access to the SOA server through a web-based administrative console, and access to virtual machines using SSH. -
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Kusk
Kubeshop
Kusk is an Open Source API Gateway that allows you to develop, monitor and deploy your APIs in a matter of minutes. Kusk powers-up your API workflows with mocked responses and validated requests out-of-the-box and automates the deployment of the API Gateway with your favorite GitOps workflows. Have a single source of truth for your API by using the OpenAPI Standard, meaning no additional configuration files are needed!Starting Price: Free -
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Axway Amplify
Axway
To become the hero, not the roadblock, many IT departments are investing in integration platforms that let users accomplish projects themselves, instead of waiting for an IT specialist. Whether it’s cutting the budget, struggling to get to the cloud, or tackling a growing project backlog, IT is challenged like never before. To become the hero, not the roadblock, many IT organizations are investing in platforms that let users accomplish projects themselves, instead of waiting for an IT specialist. Axway Amplify Platform is the enterprise integration platform that that can hide integration complexity, enforce IT policy, and scale at will, enabling your teams to: Stop repetitive one-off integrations, and focus on reusable integrations that can be leveraged by wider internal and external teams. Gain cloud cost savings and increase scale by moving on-premises integration silos to the cloud, or by leveraging them in place with hybrid deployment, and much more. -
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Fusio
Apioo
Fusio is an open source API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs. Through Fusio you can quickly build a state of the art API, set up a developer portal and monetize your API. Fusio provides a simple to use and intuitive backend. Through the backend it is possible to control and manage the complete API. Fusio provides a ready to use developer portal app which you can use to set up your API program. This is the place where developers can register to consume your API. Fusio contains many actions which you can use out of the box to solve various tasks. I.e. to proxy HTTP requests to an internal API or generate an API based on a database table. This means you can build APIs in a Low-Code style without the need to write complex code. Fusio contains a Worker-System which allows you to develop actions in different programming languages, Fusio currently supports Java, Javascript, PHP and Python. -
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Ceptor API Management
Ceptor
Features range from a Service Repository with built-in support for authoring APIs to full support for Ceptor's many proven authentication and authorization methods over full API Gateway functionality to a customizable API Developer Portal supporting self-registration which allows you to expose your APIs to both internal and external consumers. Where other products focus mostly on monetizing APIs, Ceptor API Management is more focused on providing flexibility to enterprising solving complex use cases that go far beyond simply publishing and subscribing to APIs. Ceptor API Management allows you to create as many API Groups as you need, you can use Ceptor's default templates or create your own. Ceptor supports various different types of APIs including OpenAPI, SOAP / WSDL and plain HTTP. You can document your APIs using the OpenAPI Specification or Ceptor’s built-in HTML editor. -
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Traefik
Traefik Labs
What is Traefik Enterprise Edition? TraefikEE is a cloud-native load balancer and Kubernetes ingress controller that eases networking complexity for application teams. Built on top of open source Traefik, TraefikEE brings exclusive distributed and high-availability features combined with premium bundled support for production grade deployments. Split into proxies and controllers, TraefikEE supports clustered deployments to increase security, scalability and high availability. Deploy applications anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud, and natively integrate with top-notch infrastructure tooling. Save time and give better consistency while deploying, managing, and scaling applications by leveraging dynamic and automatic TraefikEE features. Improve the application development and delivery cycle by giving developers the visibility and ownership of their services. -
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Apache Knox
Apache Software Foundation
The Knox API Gateway is designed as a reverse proxy with consideration for pluggability in the areas of policy enforcement, through providers and the backend services for which it proxies requests. Policy enforcement ranges from authentication/federation, authorization, audit, dispatch, hostmapping and content rewrite rules. Policy is enforced through a chain of providers that are defined within the topology deployment descriptor for each Apache Hadoop cluster gated by Knox. The cluster definition is also defined within the topology deployment descriptor and provides the Knox Gateway with the layout of the cluster for purposes of routing and translation between user facing URLs and cluster internals. Each Apache Hadoop cluster that is protected by Knox has its set of REST APIs represented by a single cluster specific application context path. This allows the Knox Gateway to both protect multiple clusters and present the REST API consumer with a single endpoint. -
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Tencent Cloud API Gateway
Tencent
API Gateway can be configured in the console or through Tencent Cloud APIs so that you do not need to build additional devices for deployment. It can be quickly constructed as needed using the documentation provided by Tencent Cloud. Tencent Cloud's API Gateway features visual monitoring and a rich set of OPS capabilities such as resource management, tenant isolation, and access control, freeing you from heavy OPS workload. API Gateway can be deployed in clusters so that failover can be quickly performed for faulty gateway nodes to guarantee high service reliability. API Gateway is priced competitively and billed based on the number of API calls made and the traffic generated. -
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Lura
Lura
An extendable, simple and stateless high-performance API Gateway framework designed for both cloud-native and on-prem setups. Consumers of REST API content (especially in microservices) often query backend services that weren’t coded for the UI implementation. This is of course a good practice, but the UI consumers need to do implementations that suffer a lot of complexity and burden with the sizes of their microservices responses. Lura is an API Gateway builder and proxy generator that sits between the client and all the source servers, adding a new layer that removes all the complexity to the clients, providing them only the information that the UI needs. Lura acts as an aggregator of many sources into single endpoints and allows you to group, wrap, transform and shrink responses. Additionally, it supports a myriad of middlewares and plugins that allow you to extend the functionality, such as adding Oauth authorization or security layers. -
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Express Gateway
Express Gateway
Developing monolithic applications doesn’t work. Monolithic applications are being broken down into microservices. These microservices expose the application as set of APIs that can be consumed by anyone. Microservices and APIs is an architectural style that’s grabbing a lot of attention due an emphasis on sustainable development. If you’ve used Node.js, you’ve almost certainly come across Express.js. Express.js (Express) remains one of the largest, most widely adopted, open source projects in the world. Simplicity means that, as a minimalist, general purpose, framework that is familiar to every Node developer out there you can get started rapidly and continue that velocity throughout the API Development Lifecycle. We believe that an Express based API Gateway will be a powerful enabler for developers to sustainably build better, faster and more scalable applications. -
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Apache APISIX
Apache APISIX
Apache APISIX provides rich traffic management features like Load Balancing, Dynamic Upstream, Canary Release, Circuit Breaking, Authentication, Observability, etc. Apache APISIX provides open source API Gateway to help you manage microservices, delivering the ultimate performance, security, and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices. Apache APISIX is the first open-source API Gateway that includes a built-in low-code Dashboard, which offers a powerful and flexible UI for developers to use. The Apache APISIX Dashboard is designed to make it as easy as possible for users to operate Apache APISIX through a frontend interface. It’s open-source and ever evolving, feel free to contribute. The Apache APISIX dashboard is flexible to User demand, providing option to create custom modules through code matching your requirements, alongside the existing no-code toolchain. -
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Arya.ai
Arya.ai
Arya.ai is an enterprise-grade AI platform tailored for financial institutions, offering a comprehensive ecosystem of low‑code/no‑code AI tools and plug‑and‑play APIs. Its Apex API library provides access to over 100 domain‑specific models for NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, biometric verification (face recognition, liveness detection), OCR, document fraud detection, health vitals scanning, translation, named‑entity recognition, QR code masking, image enhancement, and more. Weave, its AI orchestration layer, enables seamless integration with existing databases, ERPs, and cloud services, facilitating real‑time, secure inference and end‑to‑end governance. Arya supports hybrid deployment (cloud, on‑premise, or edge) and emphasizes regulatory compliance, auditability, low latency, and scalability. -
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SnapLogic
SnapLogic
Quickly ramp up, learn and use SnapLogic to create, multi-point, enterprise- wide app and data integrations. Easily expose and manage pipeline APIs that extend your world. Eliminate slower, manual, error-prone methods and deliver faster results for business processes such as customer onboarding, employee onboarding and off-boarding, quote to cash, ERP SKU forecasting, support ticket creation, and more. Monitor, manage, secure, and govern your data pipelines, application integrations, and API calls––all from a single pane of glass. Launch automated workflows for any department, across your enterprise, in minutes – not days. To deliver superior employee experiences, the SnapLogic platform can bring together employee data across all your enterprise HR apps and data stores. Learn how SnapLogic can help you quickly set up seamless experiences powered by automated processes. -
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Layer7 API Management
Broadcom
Get the speed and security needed to create an agile business at scale. Ensure your digital strategy has the right foundation to capitalize on new opportunities. Bring enterprise data to life at every stage of the lifecycle with Layer7®API Management (formerly CA API Management). Available as a standalone solution or as part of the full lifecycle Layer7 API Management solution, Layer7 API Management (formerly CA API Gateway) gives you the power to securely integrate and govern APIs at scale. Get industry-leading orchestration, optimization and other runtime features proven in the most demanding environments. Enhance API discovery, developer onboarding and collaboration with a central hub for your API teams. Empower your developers with the tools they need to create high-value apps. Create microservices in minutes. Design your service, apply robust logic and expose an enterprise-class API up to 10x faster than traditional coding when you use an extensible low-code development platform.
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