Best API Gateways
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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.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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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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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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ngrok
ngrok
ngrok is the programmable network edge that adds connectivity, security, and observability to your apps with no code changes. Bring security, scalability, and observability to your apps with ngrok's network edge. Put localhost on the internet securely. Introspect and replay requests for a tight feedback loop. Connect into customer networks. No time wasted on firewall rules, VPNs, or change requests. ngrok is the fastest way to put your app on the internet. We run a globally distributed reverse proxy fronting your web services running in any cloud or behind any firewall.Starting Price: $18 per month -
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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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Mindware
Mindware
Mindware is an API gateway that connects AI agents to the internet. We abstract away the coding and configuration required to interface with API services that enhance functionality, simplify real-time data retrieval, and automate workflows with a single API key. Whether you're a casual builder or shipping consumer-grade AI Agents, Mindware can help you interact with external APIs or perform specific tasks that require more than just text generation.Starting Price: $4.99 per month -
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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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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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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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SecurityForEveryone
SecurityForEveryone
S4E:Shelter automatically understands the technology you have, prioritizes and performs security assessments optimized for your application without the need for technical expertise. S4E:Shelter is an automated security assessment tool that detects the tech stack of your assets and their vulnerabilities using machine learning, and offers actionable solutions to you. Your security is up to date. S4E:Solidarity is an API gateway to make the cybersecurity process easier for apps. So, developers can integrate the security process into their development cycle. S4E:Equality is a repository of more than 500 free cybersecurity assessment tools. Anyone can use these tools to detect security vulnerabilities according to their specific needs. S4E:Education is a security awareness training platform that helps you learn about the fundamentals of cybersecurity using quizzes and social engineering attacks. -
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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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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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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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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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Google Cloud Endpoints
Google
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 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
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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MaticVigil
MaticVigil
We allow you to build full-stack apps on Ethereum via Matic Network, without learning protocol specifics. Our docs cater to every developer, all the way from beginners to those already building apps via web3, and provide examples to build upon. Smart contracts are quickly deployed through our system and the resulting Open API spec along with webhook and WebSockets are instantly available to start testing. Supercharge and extend your blockchain apps with our integration services over Websockets, Webhooks, Zapier, Slack, IFTTT. The possibilities are endless. MaticVigil is an API gateway on top of the Matic-network EVM-compatible sidechain. It enables a developer to write code to interact with value transfers and transactions on Matic as if it were talking to just another web service REST API over HTTP. You can focus on coding "business logic" without worrying about the "protocol logic" behind the scenes. -
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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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Yandex API Gateway
Yandex
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
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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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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BlockVigil
BlockVigil
Designed for entrepreneurial software developers, BlockVigil is the ultimate developer tool to build and scale blockchain apps with just a few lines of code. We allow you to build full-stack apps on blockchain, without learning protocol specifics. Smart contracts are quickly deployed through our system and the resulting API is instantly available to start testing. Use webhooks and WebSockets to integrate with third-party services in real-time with minimal technical effort. Our docs cater to every developer, all the way from beginners to advanced. We also provide examples to build upon. Use webhooks, WebSockets and Zapier to execute powerful off-chain and real-world workflows. BlockVigil's API gateway makes it super easy to build your blockchain apps, so you can quickly build and scale with just a few lines of code, from web developers to app developers. -
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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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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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Baidu AI Cloud API Gateway
Baidu AI Cloud
API Gateway provides comprehensive API management, including configuration, release, environmental management, privilege management, access control, on-line debugging, historical version management, document generation, and on-line sales. When using the API Gateway to manage APIs, the developer only needs to pay attention to the business logic of the API interface. Thus, it can achieve convenient, efficient, secure, and low-cost management services and provide data or capabilities to developers and partners. The backend can be configured with multiple addresses, and multiple backends can be polled according to the weight to improve the backend processing capacity; when any backend fails, the gateway can be recovered from any disaster according to a certain scheduling scheme.
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