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Higress

Higress is a cloud-native API gateway built on Istio and Envoy, providing enterprise-grade API gateway capabilities including traffic management, security, observability, and AI plugin support. It is an open-source project under the CNCF ecosystem.

Higress publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include API Gateway, Cloud Native, Istio, and Kubernetes.

Higress’ developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, changelog, and 7 more developer resources.

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25.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
4 APIs
API GatewayCloud NativeIstioKubernetes

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 25.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Higress

Higress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management, authentication, and observability capabilities for microservices arc...

Higress Console API

The Higress Console API provides a RESTful management interface for configuring and administering a running Higress gateway instance. It supports management of ingress routes, s...

Higress AI Gateway

Higress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routing, multi-provider support for OpenAI-compatible APIs, prompt templati...

Higress Wasm Plugin API

The Higress Wasm Plugin API provides a WebAssembly-based extension interface for developing and deploying custom plugins on the Higress gateway. Plugins can be written in Go, Ru...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Higress Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Higress Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Higress Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Higress Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText
LlmsText

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 GitHubRepository
GitHubRepository

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 Issue Tracker
Issue Tracker
 Community
Community

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: higress
name: Higress
description: Higress is a cloud-native API gateway built on Istio and Envoy, providing enterprise-grade API gateway capabilities
  including traffic management, security, observability, and AI plugin support. It is an open-source project under the CNCF
  ecosystem.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/higress.png
tags:
- API Gateway
- Cloud Native
- Istio
- Kubernetes
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/higress/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: higress:higress
  name: Higress
  description: Higress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management,
    authentication, and observability capabilities for microservices architectures.
  humanURL: https://higress.io/en-us/
  tags:
  - API Gateway
  - Cloud Native
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/user/quickstart
  - type: Reference
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/ops/config/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress/releases
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress
- aid: higress:higress-console-api
  name: Higress Console API
  description: The Higress Console API provides a RESTful management interface for configuring and administering a running
    Higress gateway instance. It supports management of ingress routes, service sources, TLS certificates, plugins, and gateway
    configuration through the built-in web console backend.
  humanURL: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/ops/api
  tags:
  - Admin
  - Configuration
  - Management
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/ops/api
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress-console
- aid: higress:higress-ai-gateway
  name: Higress AI Gateway
  description: Higress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routing,
    multi-provider support for OpenAI-compatible APIs, prompt templating, token-based rate limiting, semantic caching, and
    AI observability. It enables teams to manage and govern traffic to large language model services.
  humanURL: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/plugins/ai/
  tags:
  - AI
  - API Gateway
  - Cloud Native
  - LLM
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/plugins/ai/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/user/ai-proxy/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress
- aid: higress:higress-wasm-plugin-api
  name: Higress Wasm Plugin API
  description: The Higress Wasm Plugin API provides a WebAssembly-based extension interface for developing and deploying custom
    plugins on the Higress gateway. Plugins can be written in Go, Rust, C++, or any language that compiles to WebAssembly,
    and can intercept and transform HTTP requests and responses at the gateway level.
  humanURL: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/plugins/custom/
  tags:
  - Cloud Native
  - Extensions
  - Plugins
  - WebAssembly
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/plugins/custom/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/plugins/custom/go-plugin/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/higress-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://higress.io/en-us/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://higress.io/en-us/docs/user/quickstart
- type: Blog
  url: https://higress.io/en-us/blog/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress/releases
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/alibaba
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress
- type: Issue Tracker
  url: https://github.com/alibaba/higress/issues
- type: Community
  url: https://discord.gg/higress
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://higress.io/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com