# Apache APISIX

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-apisix/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It supports Lua and multi-language plugins for traffic management, authentication, observability, and security. APISIX provides a RESTful Admin API for dynamic configuration of routes, upstreams, services, consumers, SSL certificates, and plugins, and a Control API for health monitoring and schema introspection.

## Kin Score — 42.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 63.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (18)

- **Apache APISIX Gateway** — Apache APISIX provides rich traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream configuration, canary releases, circuit breaking, authentication, observabilit...
- **Apache APISIX Consumer Groups API** — Manage consumer groups for shared plugin configurations.
- **Apache APISIX Consumers API** — Manage API consumers and their credentials.
- **Apache APISIX Diagnostics API** — Runtime diagnostic operations.
- **Apache APISIX Global Rules API** — Manage global plugin rules applied to all requests.
- **Apache APISIX Health Check API** — Monitor the health status of upstream nodes.
- **Apache APISIX Introspection API** — Inspect the runtime configuration of the APISIX instance.
- **Apache APISIX Plugin Configs API** — Manage reusable plugin configuration sets.
- **Apache APISIX Plugin Metadata API** — Manage metadata for individual plugins.
- **Apache APISIX Plugins API** — Query available plugins and their schemas.
- **Apache APISIX Protos API** — Manage Protocol Buffer definition resources.
- **Apache APISIX Routes API** — Manage HTTP routes that define rules for matching client requests.
- **Apache APISIX Schema API** — Validate resource configurations against APISIX schemas.
- **Apache APISIX Secrets API** — Manage secrets from external secret managers.
- **Apache APISIX Services API** — The Services API from Apache APISIX — 2 operation(s) for services.
- **Apache APISIX SSL API** — Manage SSL/TLS certificate resources.
- **Apache APISIX Stream Routes API** — Manage Layer 4 TCP/UDP stream routes.
- **Apache APISIX Upstreams API** — Manage upstream backend service definitions with load balancing.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apache Apisix Agentic Access** — 76 operations · 40 acting

## Security (3)

- **Apache Apisix Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Apache Apisix Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Apisix Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Apisix Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **API Gateway for Microservices** — Route and manage traffic to microservices with dynamic configuration and plugin-based policies.
- **Authentication and Authorization** — Apply JWT, key-auth, LDAP, OIDC, and OAuth2 plugins to protect APIs without changing upstream services.
- **Rate Limiting and Throttling** — Apply global or per-consumer rate limits to protect upstream services from traffic spikes.
- **Canary and Blue-Green Deployments** — Use traffic splitting to gradually roll out new API versions with percentage-based routing.
- **Kubernetes Ingress Controller** — Replace traditional ingress controllers with APISIX for rich API gateway features in Kubernetes.
- **API Observability** — Collect metrics, traces, and logs via native integrations with Prometheus, Zipkin, and SkyWalking.

## Tags

Apache, API Gateway, Cloud-Native, Kubernetes, Lua, NGINX, Open-Source, Traffic Management

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-apisix/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.