Compare the Top API Gateways as of July 2025

What are API Gateways?

An API gateway is the server or node located between client and backend services or microservices endpoints. API gateways are used for API management, with the API gateway managing and processing API requests that come in via microservices. Another way to think of an API gateway is that it is the software layer that lives in front of an API interface, which handles API requests. 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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    Pliant

    Pliant

    Pliant.io

    Pliant’s solution for IT Process Automation simplifies, streamlines, and secures how teams build and deploy automation. Reduce human error, ensure compliance, and elevate your efficiency, with Pliant. Ingest existing automation and write new automation with single-pane orchestration. Ensure compliance using consistent, practical built-in governance. Pliant has abstracted thousands of vendor APIs to create intelligent action blocks allowing users to drag-and-drop blocks, rather than writing and rewriting lines of code. From a single platform, citizen developers are able to build consistent and meaningful automation across platforms, services, and applications in minutes — maximizing value across the entire technology stack in one place. ​With​ ​our​ ​ability​ ​to​ ​add​ ​new​ ​APIs​ ​in​ ​15​ ​business​ ​days,​ ​anything that​ ​is​ ​not​ ​already​ ​out​ ​of​ ​the​ ​box​ ​will​ ​be​ ​in​ ​an​ ​industry​ ​leading​ ​timeframe.
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    Ambassador

    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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    Alibaba Cloud API Gateway
    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
    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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    Typeauth

    Typeauth

    TypeAuth

    At its core, TypeAuth provides robust authentication services including JWT management, token lifecycle control, and multi-factor authentication, all configurable through simple dashboard controls. This is complemented by our advanced security features including an intelligent rate limiting system, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and geo-blocking capabilities that adapt to your traffic patterns and protect against emerging threats. Rounding out our offering, is a comprehensive monitoring and analytics suite that provides real-time visibility into your security posture, complete with anomaly detection and automated response capabilities. All these features are accessible through our dashboard, requiring only a CNAME configuration to get started, making enterprise-level security accessible to organizations of all sizes.
    Starting Price: Contact Sales
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    Akana API Platform

    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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    Xooa

    Xooa

    Xooa

    Xooa empowers users of all blockchain expertise levels to build NFT marketplaces and other blockchain apps on the cloud fast through a streamlined and easy-to-use interface. Take advantage of Xooa's low code tools, API gateway, and many other powerful features to generate up to a 10x faster time-to-app and a 95% shorter learning curve. White-Label Marketplace: Key Features and Capabilities Deploy a ready-to-use, end-to-end marketplace in just 45 seconds Appeal to crypto and mainstream audiences with fiat + crypto payments and custodial + non-custodial wallets Use low code tools like drag-and-drop forms and definable roles to customize your marketplace UX Payment management, royalties, and compliance built-in
    Starting Price: $100 per agent per month
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    Oracle API Management
    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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    Google Cloud Endpoints
    Develop, deploy, protect, and monitor your APIs with Cloud Endpoints. An NGINX-based proxy and distributed architecture give unparalleled performance and scalability. Using an OpenAPI Specification or one of our API frameworks, Cloud Endpoints gives you the tools you need for every phase of API development and provides insight with Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Trace. Control who has access to your API and validate every call with JSON Web Tokens and Google API keys. Integration with Auth0 and Firebase Authentication lets you identify the users of your web or mobile application. Extensible Service Proxy delivers security and insight in less than 1 ms per call. Deploy your API automatically with App Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine, or add our proxy container to your Kubernetes deployment. Monitor critical operations metrics in Google Cloud Console, and gain insight into your users and usage with Cloud Trace, Cloud Logging, and BigQuery.
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    Everest

    Everest

    Everest

    Everest is a decentralized platform with a massively scalable payment solution, EverChain, with a multi-currency wallet, EverWallet, a native biometric identity system, EverID, a value tracking token, the CRDT, all integrated to existing infrastructure with an easy to deploy software appliance, The Everest API Gateway. Everest delivers a complete solution for a new economy. The financial services toolbox provided by the Everest platform is able to be used to solve many different value transfer, tracking, and delivery challenges that you face every day. Below are some example solutions, contact us to tailor a solution for your specific needs. Cloud Fintech platform providing a regulatory compliance and value transfer toolkit which solves a variety of identity, value transfer, audit, reporting and agent management challenges. Everest is a decentralized platform incorporating a massively scalable payment solution, EverChain, with a multi-currency wallet, EverWallet, etc.
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    Tencent Cloud API Gateway
    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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    Apache APISIX

    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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    Yandex API Gateway
    Requests to service APIs are processed with minimum delay. Under peak loads, the service is automatically scaled to minimize response latency. You can use Certificate Manager domains when accessing the API. In this case, a certificate linked to the domain is used to provide a TLS connection. Extend specifications with a click in the management console and integrate your applications with Yandex Cloud services. Canary releases in API Gateway allow you to apply changes to the OpenAPI specifications of the API gateway gradually, to a portion of incoming queries. Limit the number of queries to the API gateway per unit of time to defend against DDoS attacks and control consumption of cloud resources.
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    SmartBip

    SmartBip

    RetAPPs

    SmartBip is the name of our platform: it works as a Middleware / API Gateway between the internal systems of the retailer and the App and Web frontends, providing services that optimize and secure dialogue between the parties. RetAPPs was founded in 2012 by Alessandro Tiretta, who still today provides the company with his expertise in the retail industry. He saw that traditional brick-and-mortar retailers could benefit from innovative tools as they tried to compete with online boutiques, both in terms of customer engagement and loyalty, and in order to respond to the new needs of manufacturers. And indeed, today the data confirm just that. RetAPPs is the ideal partner for traditional retailers because it’s a fully-digital solution provider, able to support retailers throughout the entire digitisation process, resulting in their success: to do so, we came up with SmartBip, proprietary technology that turns any point of sale into a multi-channel e-commerce platform.
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    Rhapsody

    Rhapsody

    Rhapsody

    Build the interoperability solutions you need. Adapt to any modern environment with Rhapsody, a flexible toolbox that enables your team to build connections quickly and securely. Support the highest level of service with Rhapsody by ensuring that healthcare data is flowing where, when, and how your unique environment demands. Design flexible solutions to every connection need. Streamline workflows with a solution that is infinitely configurable and purpose-built for healthcare. Create intricate integrations with a robust toolkit that has been proven across the world. The platform is represented globally with customers in 36 countries. Develop cutting-edge FHIR-based interfaces simply and easily with REST and FHIR-specific JSON support. Security is of primary concern and is built into every part of the product, with a view to safeguarding any protected health information (PHI) that passes through the engine.
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