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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    Tyk

    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

    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 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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    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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    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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    BlockVigil

    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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