# Higress

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/higress/  
**Website:** https://higress.io/en-us/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 14.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 14.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| 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)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Higress Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Higress Plans Pricing**

## Tags

API Gateway, Cloud-Native, Istio, Kubernetes

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