Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Gateway provides an intelligent, programmable router built on Spring WebFlux that serves as the entry point to microservice architectures. It offers routing, predicate evaluation, filter chaining, load balancing, circuit breaking, rate limiting, and runtime route management through an Actuator API.

Spring Cloud Gateway publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Filters API, Predicates API, and Routes API. Tagged areas include API Gateway, Circuit Breaker, Load Balancing, Microservices, and Rate Limiting.

The Spring Cloud Gateway catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Spring Cloud Gateway’s developer surface includes support, getting-started guide, engineering blog, documentation, GitHub presence, release notes, Stack Overflow tag, and 9 more developer resources.

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36.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

API Gateway Circuit Breaker Load Balancing Microservices Rate Limiting Routing SpringSpring WebFlux

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 36.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.4 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 5.1 / 18

Access Clarity 2.8 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.3 / 12

Contract Governance 3.1 / 11

Discoverability 6.0 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 4

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

Spring Cloud Gateway Core

Core routing and filtering capabilities including predicate factories (Path, Host, Method, Header, Query, Cookie, Weight, RemoteAddr), gateway filter factories (AddRequestHeader...

Spring Cloud Gateway Filters API

Manage global and route filter factories

Spring Cloud Gateway Predicates API

Query available route predicate factories

Spring Cloud Gateway Routes API

Manage gateway route definitions at runtime

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Gateway Actuator API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Gateway Actuator Filters API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Gateway Actuator Filters Predicates API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spring Cloud Gateway Actuator Filters Routes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spring Cloud Gateway Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spring Cloud Gateway Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Spring Cloud Gateway Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Spring Cloud Gateway Context

6 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Spring Cloud Gateway API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Spring Cloud Gateway API Rules

9 rules · 4 errors 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Spring Cloud Gateway Route Definition

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spring Cloud Gateway Route Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Spring Cloud Gateway Create Route Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Spring Cloud Gateway List Routes Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Spring Cloud Gateway Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Spring Cloud Gateway Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Spring Cloud Gateway Agentic Access

9 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

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

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Issues

ReleaseNotes

StackOverflow

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Maven Repository

Maven Repository

Source (apis.yml)

aid: spring-cloud-gateway
name: Spring Cloud Gateway
description: Spring Cloud Gateway provides an intelligent, programmable router built on Spring WebFlux that serves as the
  entry point to microservice architectures. It offers routing, predicate evaluation, filter chaining, load balancing, circuit
  breaking, rate limiting, and runtime route management through an Actuator API.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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/spring-cloud-gateway.png
url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-gateway
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- API Gateway
- Circuit Breaker
- Load Balancing
- Microservices
- Rate Limiting
- Routing
- Spring
- Spring WebFlux
apis:
- aid: spring-cloud-gateway:spring-cloud-gateway-core
  name: Spring Cloud Gateway Core
  description: Core routing and filtering capabilities including predicate factories (Path, Host, Method, Header, Query, Cookie,
    Weight, RemoteAddr), gateway filter factories (AddRequestHeader, RewritePath, RequestRateLimiter, CircuitBreaker, Retry),
    and global filters for proxying requests to downstream services.
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-gateway
  baseURL: http://localhost:8080
  tags:
  - API Gateway
  - Filtering
  - Load Balancing
  - Predicates
  - Routing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-gateway#learn
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway/releases
- aid: spring-cloud-gateway:spring-cloud-gateway-filters-api
  name: Spring Cloud Gateway Filters API
  description: Manage global and route filter factories
  humanURL: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/#actuator-api
  baseURL: http://localhost:8080/actuator/gateway
  tags:
  - Filters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-gateway-filters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/#actuator-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-gateway-route-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-gateway-route-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-gateway-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-gateway-rules.yml
- aid: spring-cloud-gateway:spring-cloud-gateway-predicates-api
  name: Spring Cloud Gateway Predicates API
  description: Query available route predicate factories
  humanURL: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/#actuator-api
  baseURL: http://localhost:8080/actuator/gateway
  tags:
  - Predicates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-gateway-predicates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/#actuator-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-gateway-route-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-gateway-route-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-gateway-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-gateway-rules.yml
- aid: spring-cloud-gateway:spring-cloud-gateway-routes-api
  name: Spring Cloud Gateway Routes API
  description: Manage gateway route definitions at runtime
  humanURL: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/#actuator-api
  baseURL: http://localhost:8080/actuator/gateway
  tags:
  - Routes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-cloud-gateway-routes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/#actuator-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/spring-cloud-gateway-route-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/spring-cloud-gateway-route-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/spring-cloud-gateway-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-cloud-gateway-rules.yml
common:
- type: Support
  url: https://spring.io/support
- type: Security
  url: https://spring.io/security
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://spring.io/quickstart
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spring-cloud-gateway-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/spring-cloud-gateway-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spring-cloud-gateway-domain-security.yml
- url: https://spring.io/blog.atom
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-gateway
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/docs/current/reference/html/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud
- type: Issues
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway/issues
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway/releases
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-cloud-gateway
- type: Maven Repository
  url: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.cloud/spring-cloud-gateway-server
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/spring-cloud-gateway-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: spring
x-relationship: product

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