# Gloo

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gloo/  
**Website:** https://www.solo.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Gloo is a suite of open-source and enterprise API gateway and service mesh products from Solo.io built on Envoy Proxy, offering advanced traffic management, security, observability, and developer portal capabilities for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.

## Kin Score — 21.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Gloo Edge** — Gloo Edge is a feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway built on Envoy Proxy, supporting advanced routing, security policies, and observability for clo...
- **Gloo Gateway** — Gloo Gateway is the next-generation API gateway from Solo.io built on Envoy Proxy and implementing the Kubernetes Gateway API specification. It provides advanced traffic managem...
- **Gloo Mesh** — Gloo Mesh is an enterprise service mesh management platform from Solo.io built on Istio, providing multi-cluster and multi-mesh traffic management, security policy enforcement, ...
- **Gloo Portal** — Gloo Portal is a developer portal product from Solo.io that enables organizations to expose, document, and manage API products for internal and external consumers. It integrates...

## Security (2)

- **Gloo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Gloo Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Gloo Plans Pricing**

## Tags

API Gateway, Envoy, Kubernetes, Open-Source, Service Mesh

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