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API Gateways

11 providers in this category.

API gateways sit in front of services to handle routing, rate limiting, authentication, and developer-portal concerns from a single layer, so individual services never each reimplement them. They suit teams exposing internal or public APIs that want consistent security, throttling, and observability at the edge. The field runs from open-source, self-hosted proxies to fully managed cloud gateways billed per call.

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Neutral ordering. Not a recommendation.

11 results

Amazon API Gateway

aws.amazon.com/api-gateway

Amazon API Gateway is AWS's managed service for creating, publishing, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs for teams building on AWS.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Strengths
Maturity, operating 11 yearsCapability, Rate limiting +1
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Apigee

cloud.google.com/apigee

Apigee is Google Cloud's enterprise API management platform for designing, securing, analyzing, and monetizing APIs across full-lifecycle API programs.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Maturity, operating 22 years
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Azure API Management

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/api-management

Azure API Management is Microsoft's managed service for publishing, securing, and analyzing APIs across the Azure ecosystem.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Free tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 10 years
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Gloo Gateway

www.solo.io

Gloo Gateway is Solo.io's enterprise, Envoy-powered, Kubernetes-native API gateway, the hardened and supported edition of the open-source kgateway, a CNCF project.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 9 years
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Gravitee

www.gravitee.io

Gravitee is an open-source API management platform for designing, securing, and governing both REST APIs and event-driven and async streams.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 11 years
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Kong

konghq.com

Kong is an API gateway and management platform for routing, securing, and observing API traffic across microservices, available both open-source and as a managed service.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 9 years
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KrakenD

www.krakend.io

KrakenD is an open-source, high-performance, stateless API gateway that aggregates and transforms backend services for teams building fast API layers.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableCapability, Rate limiting +1Maturity, operating 8 years
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Traefik

traefik.io

Traefik is one of the most widely deployed open-source reverse proxies and API gateways, known for automatic service discovery in Docker and Kubernetes environments and configuration through labels rather than files.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed July 2026
Strengths
Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 10 yearsCapability, Rate limiting +1
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Tyk

tyk.io

Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform for securing and controlling API traffic, available self-hosted or as a managed service.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 12 years
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WSO2 API Manager

wso2.com

WSO2 API Manager is a fully open-source, Apache-2.0 API management platform covering the full lifecycle, including the gateway, developer portal, traffic and throttling manager, and key management.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 21 years
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Zuplo

zuplo.com

Zuplo is a fully managed, edge-native API management platform deployed across a global edge network, where gateways are configured as code via Git.

$$$ Premiumfrom $25/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Strengths
Capability, Rate limiting +2Free tier, Free plan availableMaturity, operating 5 yearsOpenness, Self-hostable
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