Gateway is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at gateway.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong, Zuplo, Gravitee, Solo.io, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Management, Portal, Serverless, and Deployment. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
A collection of services, tooling, and open source solutions for API gateway management and traffic control, covering routing, authentication, rate limiting, observability, and…
Related providers (127)
Top 30 of 127 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 25 | exemplar |
| Microsoft Azure API Management | Microsoft Azure API Management is a hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments. It is composed of an API gateway (data plane), a management plane, a... | 1 | exemplar |
| Kong | Kong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on NGINX and Lua), Kong Konnect (the SaaS control plane), Kong AI Gateway... | 2 | exemplar |
| Zuplo | Zuplo is the API management platform for developers. Build, deploy, and scale APIs faster with Zuplo. | 1 | exemplar |
| Gravitee | Gravitee.io is an open-source API management platform from GraviteeSource, combining a high-performance API Gateway, full-lifecycle API Management, Access Management (IAM), Cock... | 3 | strong |
| Solo.io | Solo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-source API gateways, service mesh, and agentic-AI infrastructure. Its pr... | 5 | strong |
| Traefik Labs | Traefik Labs builds cloud-native traffic and API infrastructure - the open-source Traefik Proxy (an ingress controller, reverse proxy, and load balancer for Kubernetes, Docker, ... | 1 | strong |
| AgentGateway | AgentGateway is an open-source, AI-native proxy and gateway for routing, observing, and governing traffic to and from AI agents, LLM providers, and MCP servers. Built on the A2A... | 1 | developing |
| ngrok | ngrok is a unified application delivery network for developers, providing secure tunnels, ingress-as-a-service, API gateway, and AI gateway capabilities. It enables developers t... | 1 | developing |
| Aklivity | Aklivity builds Zilla, a stateless, source-available multi-protocol gateway for event-driven applications and AI agents. Zilla translates HTTP, SSE, WebSocket, MQTT, gRPC and MC... | 4 | developing |
| RouterPlex | RouterPlex is an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible AI gateway that fronts 64 chat and image models from 15 vendors — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, MiniM... | 1 | developing |
| Lunar | Lunar is an enterprise-grade API management and AI control plane platform that provides a unified gateway for managing API traffic policies, rate limiting, quota enforcement, an... | 3 | developing |
| API7.ai | API7.ai provides an enterprise‑grade API gateway and AI gateway platform, enabling organizations to manage, secure, and monitor APIs as well as LLM and AI‑agent traffic. Built b... | 17 | developing |
| AI Gateway | An API Evangelist landscape index of AI gateways — the LLM routers, prompt firewalls, model fallback proxies, cost-control planes, and policy engines that sit between applicatio... | 1 | thin |
| APIPark | APIPark is an open-source, cloud-native AI gateway and API developer portal that helps developers and enterprises manage, integrate, and deploy AI and API services. It supports ... | 1 | thin |
| WSO2 | WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible hybrid deployment. It provides a unified control plane for managing A... | 7 | exemplar |
| Amazon API Gateway | Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as the front door for applications ... | 13 | exemplar |
| F5 | F5 is a global company that specializes in application delivery and security solutions for businesses. They provide products and services that help organizations efficiently and... | 6 | exemplar |
| Jitterbit | Jitterbit is an enterprise integration platform as a service (iPaaS) vendor. Its Harmony platform spans application and data integration (Integration Studio and the legacy Desig... | 1 | exemplar |
| Apigee | Apigee is Google Cloud's native API management platform for building, managing, and securing APIs across any use case, environment, or scale. It provides API proxies, security, ... | 5 | exemplar |
| Vendia | Vendia is an enterprise data platform company founded by Tim Wagner (creator of AWS Lambda) and Shruthi Rao (founder of the AWS blockchain practice). Its flagship product is the... | 1 | strong |
| AIMLAPI | AIMLAPI is a unified AI model API gateway providing access to 400+ state-of-the-art AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Mistral, Stability AI, and 40+ othe... | 2 | strong |
| Eden AI | Eden AI is a French AI gateway that puts one API, one key and one invoice in front of 500+ AI models from 50+ providers. Its v3 surface is deliberately OpenAI-wire-compatible — ... | 14 | strong |
| Insforge | InsForge is an open-source (Apache-2.0), agent-native cloud infrastructure platform built so that AI coding agents can provision and operate an entire backend end to end through... | 14 | strong |
| Vercel | Vercel is a cloud platform that helps developers build, deploy, and scale modern web applications quickly and efficiently. It provides an optimized hosting environment for front... | 2 | strong |
| SLNG | SLNG is a compliance-first speech AI gateway that gives developers a single, unified API for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM-driven voice agents across 30+ models from p... | 7 | strong |
| Edgee | Edgee is a French edge-native AI Gateway that sits between coding agents and LLM providers, intercepting, routing, compressing, metering and securing every request. Its OpenAI-c... | 1 | strong |
| Aptible | Aptible is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built for teams that have to prove security and compliance, not just ship. It deploys web apps, managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, R... | 3 | strong |
| Citi | Citi is the consumer and institutional brand of Citigroup, serving over 200 million customers across 160 countries. Citi runs one of the largest published API estates in banking... | 117 | strong |
| Bifrost | Bifrost is a high-performance open-source AI gateway that unifies access to 20+ AI providers through a single OpenAI-compatible API. It supports 1,000+ models with adaptive load... | 1 | strong |
Related areas
Management (8 shared)
Portal (5 shared)
Serverless (4 shared)
Deployment (2 shared)
Monetization (2 shared)
Service Mesh (2 shared)
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this area. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this area.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| AI Model Routing | 16% |
| Streaming (Apache Kafka protocol) | 12% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Gateway, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
62
+39.2 vs catalog 22.8
Mean Agent Readiness
36.8
+23.5 vs catalog 13.3
Spread
30.9–82.9
median 63.7 · σ 12.4
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 9Strong 13Developing 6Thin 2Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Clarity | 72.2 | 25 | +47.2 | 30 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.8 | 22.1 | +42.7 | 30 |
| Contract Quality | 57.1 | 18.2 | +38.9 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 48.5 | 12.4 | +36.1 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 30.9 | 9.4 | +21.5 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 73.1 | 57.9 | +15.2 | 30 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 53% | 16% | +37 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 47% | 14% | +33 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 27% | 13% | +14 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 20% | 2% | +18 |
| Governance rules | 97% | 35% | +62 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 WSO2 82.9
- 2 Cloudflare 82.8
- 3 Microsoft Azure API Management 80.3
- 4 Amazon API Gateway 76
- 5 F5 73.1
- 6 Jitterbit 72.9
- 7 Kong 72
- 8 Zuplo 72
- 9 Apigee 69.6
- 10 Vendia 66.4
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
7 November 2026, across 38912
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
Work with this as data
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