Best API Gateways
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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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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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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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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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MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
MuleSoft
Anypoint Platform by MuleSoft is a leading solution for API management, integration, and automation that accelerates IT project delivery. It enables businesses to build, deploy, secure, and manage APIs across any environment, from cloud to on-premises. With support for multiple protocols and integration with CI/CD pipelines, the platform streamlines application development and data transformation. It offers automated security and governance, ensuring compliance with industry standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR. Real-time monitoring and analytics help teams manage APIs and troubleshoot issues effectively. Anypoint Platform empowers enterprises to create resilient, scalable, and future-proof digital architectures. -
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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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SlashDB
SlashDB
SlashDB automatically generates a REST API from relational databases for reading and writing in convenient formats like XML, JSON and CSV. Additionally, using HTML it allows for simply browsing through data so users can discover available databases, tables, queries and API endpoints. SlashDB is capable of providing a central access point to multiple databases, effectively forming an all-encompassing resource-oriented architecture (ROA), serving as an API gateway to the data for users that need access. SlashDB provides a web service shell for each of your database(s) by translating relational database structures into a logical library of uniform resource locators (URL). Conforming to REST methodology, every piece of data has its own unique identifying URL regardless of whether it is a simple scalar value or a nested structure of related records.Starting Price: $200 per database per month -
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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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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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Fyno
Fyno
Liberate engineering teams from managing notification infrastructure. Empower product teams to manage notification workflows. Manage templates across all channels using a centralized interface. Get AI insights on omni-channel messaging that can directly impact engagement. Manage workflows and providers without touching the codebase. Send high-volume notifications without scaling issues. Collaborate and manage channel-wise templates for each communication in one place. Ensure 100% deliverability with smart routing flows and failover protocols. Manage your integrations, templates, routes & workflows in one place. Get real-time analytics, reports, and insights out of the box. Fyno delivers value across your organization. Fyno consolidates logs from all your channels and vendors. No need for logging into multiple platforms for data. Deploy a notification center in your applications with Fyno's in-app SDK, and customize it as per your app design.Starting Price: $249 per month -
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Csmart iPaaS
Covalense Digital Solutions
Covalense Digital’s iPaaS API Gateway platform is a future-ready solution that simplifies integration across diverse systems, channels, and partner ecosystems. As a powerful API integration platform, it enables telecoms and enterprises to accelerate digital transformation by connecting legacy systems with modern cloud-native applications. With built-in support for TM Forum Open APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture, the platform ensures seamless interoperability, faster onboarding, and reduced integration costs. Designed as an API automation platform, it offers centralized governance, security, and analytics while supporting low-code configuration and scalable deployment models. Recognised among trusted iPaaS providers, Covalense Digital delivers flexible and reliable integration capabilities that help businesses innovate faster, respond to market demands swiftly, and create connected experiences with confidence. -
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WunderGraph Cosmo
WunderGraph
WunderGraph is an open source, next-generation API platform designed to unify, manage, and accelerate how developers compose, integrate, and serve APIs from diverse backends (such as REST, gRPC, Kafka, and GraphQL) into a single, type-safe, high-performance API surface that modern applications can consume. It includes Cosmo, a full lifecycle API management solution for federated GraphQL that provides schema registry, composition checks, routing, analytics, metrics, tracing, and observability, all manageable via code in your existing development workflows rather than separate dashboards. WunderGraph lets teams define how multiple services should be composed into one API, automatically generate type-safe client libraries, and handle authentication, authorization, and API calls with built-in tooling that fits into CI/CD and Git-centric processes.Starting Price: $499 per month -
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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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kgateway
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
kgateway is a Kubernetes-native gateway platform designed to manage microservices and AI agent traffic at scale. It acts as a unified control plane for API gateways, AI gateways, inference routing, and agent-to-agent communication. Built on Envoy and open standards, kgateway implements the Kubernetes Gateway API for modern cloud-native environments. The platform enables centralized authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and traffic management. Kgateway also secures LLM consumption by controlling access to models, tools, and agents. It supports intelligent routing for AI inference workloads running in Kubernetes. Trusted by enterprises worldwide, kgateway delivers scalable, secure, and flexible connectivity across any cloud. -
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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-inStarting Price: $100 per agent per month -
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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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FastRouter
FastRouter
FastRouter is a unified API gateway that enables AI applications to access many large language, image, and audio models (like GPT-5, Claude 4 Opus, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4, etc.) through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. It features automatic routing, which dynamically picks the optimal model per request based on factors like cost, latency, and output quality. It supports massive scale (no imposed QPS limits) and ensures high availability via instant failover across model providers. FastRouter also includes cost control and governance tools to set budgets, rate limits, and model permissions per API key or project, and it delivers real-time analytics on token usage, request counts, and spending trends. The integration process is minimal; you simply swap your OpenAI base URL to FastRouter’s endpoint and configure preferences in the dashboard; the routing, optimization, and failover functions then run transparently. -
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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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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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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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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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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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