# Spring Cloud Gateway

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spring-cloud-gateway/  
**Website:** https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-gateway  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 38.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 55.3 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 17.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| 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)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spring Cloud Gateway Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Spring Cloud Gateway Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Spring Cloud Gateway Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Spring Cloud Gateway Plans Pricing**

## Tags

API Gateway, Circuit Breaker, Load Balancing, Microservices, Rate Limiting, Routing, Spring, Spring WebFlux

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