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AI Gateway

Score 27.3 / 100 34 providers +6 via APIs 31 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: AI GatewaysAI Gateway

Providers using this tag (34)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
CloudflareAPI GatewayArtificial IntelligenceCDN25 APIs80.6KongKongAPI GatewayAI Connectivity2 APIs73.2Microsoft Azure API ManagementA2AAPI CenterAPI Gateway1 API72.9
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
GraviteeAPI GatewayAPI ManagementAccess ManagementIdentity2 APIs65.2Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayService MeshKubernetes5 APIs63.0ZuploAPI ManagementGatewaysPlatform1 API62.3Eden AIArtificial IntelligenceLLMMachine Learning13 APIs62.2VercelGatewaysObservabilityWebhook2 APIs59.0AptibleCompanyPlatform-as-a-ServiceCloud InfrastructureDeployment3 APIs58.5EdgeeCompanyArtificial IntelligenceLLM1 API58.3gpt55-token-gatewayx402Agentic PaymentsMCPA2A3 APIs57.2PortkeyGatewaysGovernanceGuardrails1 API57.0Traefik LabsAPI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API57.0
Developing 15 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
AgentGatewayAPI GatewayMCPLLM1 API54.22sAgentsAgentic Commercex402MCP1 API54.1InsforgeCompanyBackend-as-a-ServiceAgent-NativeCloud Infrastructure14 APIs53.4AklivityAPI GatewayAgent InfrastructureApache Kafka4 APIs53.2HeliconeAI MonitoringGatewaysLLM Observability1 API52.4Cloudflare AI GatewayLLMObservabilityCaching1 API52.3BifrostLLMLoad BalancingOpen Source4 APIs51.5LunarAPI ManagementAPI GatewayMCP Gateway3 APIs50.7AgentuityCompanyAgentsArtificial IntelligenceCloud1 API49.9UnifyLLMArtificial IntelligenceLLM RoutingModel Gateway1 API49.8Standard ComputeLLM APIFlat RateSubscriptionAI Agents1 API46.9ngrokAPI GatewayComputeDeveloper Tools1 API46.3LangWatchArtificial IntelligenceLLMLLM ObservabilityLLM Evaluation1 API46.0ZotGPT (UC Irvine)Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AILLM2 APIs45.9RouterPlexLLMArtificial IntelligenceInference1 API43.5
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
LangDBArtificial IntelligenceLLMRouting1 API38.4nexos.aiCompanyArtificial IntelligenceLLM1 API38.1Kong AI GatewayLLMMCPA2A21 APIs37.7AI GatewayLLM RouterLLM ProxyModel Routing1 API37.4APIParkAPI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API32.2TensorZeroCompanyAi MlLLMLLMOps27.4

APIs with this tag (27)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Cloudflare AI Gateway APIThe AI Gateway API from Cloudflare — 11 operation(s) for ai gateway.80.6Kong Agent GatewayKong Agent Gateway is a capability of Kong AI Gateway (GA April 2026 with AI Gateway 3.14) that governs age...73.2Kong AI GatewayKong AI Gateway is the connectivity and governance layer for AI-native applications. Built on Kong Gateway,...73.2Netlify AI Gateway APIThe AI Gateway API from Netlify — 3 operation(s) for ai gateway.71.5
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Gravitee AI Agent ManagementGravitee AI Agent Management brings the API management discipline to agentic AI ecosystems. It is delivered...65.2Traefik AI GatewaySelf-hosted Kubernetes-native gateway for LLM traffic. OpenAI-compatible unified API in front of OpenAI, An...57.0Axway Amplify AI GatewayAxway Amplify AI Gateway is a secure, enterprise-grade AI gateway that governs AI integration, orchestrates...56.1
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
AgentGatewayAgentGateway provides AI-native gateway capabilities for routing LLM traffic, federating MCP tools, enablin...54.2Zilla MCP GatewayThe Zilla MCP Gateway is the AI-facing face of the Zilla engine. It terminates Model Context Protocol Strea...53.2Bifrost Go SDKThe Bifrost Go SDK provides a native Go client for embedding the Bifrost AI gateway directly into Go applic...51.5Stanford AI API GatewayDirect API access to the large language models hosted in Stanford's own cloud infrastructure behind the AI ...50.3Amberflo AI Gateway APIThe Amberflo AI Gateway provides a unified API for routing requests to 1,500+ LLM models with intelligent m...48.0Cequence AI GatewayEnterprise AI Gateway that makes applications agent-ready through governed Model Context Protocol integrati...42.7
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
Kong Agent GatewayKong Agent Gateway is a capability of Kong AI Gateway (GA April 2026 with AI Gateway 3.14) that governs age...37.7Kong AI GatewayKong AI Gateway is the connectivity and governance layer for AI-native applications. Built on Kong Gateway,...37.7Apache APISIX AI ProxyThe Apache APISIX ai-proxy plugin streamlines integration with LLMs by converting plugin settings into the ...37.4Cloudflare AI GatewayCloudflare AI Gateway is an edge-deployed proxy that fronts AI providers — Workers AI, Anthropic, Google Ge...37.4Envoy AI GatewayEnvoy AI Gateway is an open-source extension to Envoy Proxy and Envoy Gateway, providing a Kubernetes-nativ...37.4HeliconeHelicone is an open-source AI observability and routing platform centered on requests, sessions, prompts, d...37.4Kong AI GatewayThe Kong AI Gateway is delivered as the AI Proxy plugin for Kong Gateway, transforming and proxying request...37.4LangDBLangDB is an enterprise AI gateway for routing and governing LLM traffic across providers, with observabili...37.4LiteLLMLiteLLM (BerriAI) is an open-source LLM gateway that exposes 100+ LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure,...37.4NVIDIA NIMNVIDIA NIM is a set of inference microservices for streamlined AI model deployment, prebuilt and optimized ...37.4OpenRouterOpenRouter is a unified inference marketplace exposing 400+ models from 60+ providers behind one OpenAI-com...37.4PortkeyPortkey is a production-grade AI gateway and control plane that fronts 1,600+ LLMs with unified routing, fa...37.4Tetrate Agent Router ServiceTetrate Agent Router Service is an Envoy AI Gateway-as-a-service from the creators of Envoy, providing an a...37.4Traefik AI GatewayTraefik AI Gateway is an enterprise, self-hosted, Kubernetes-native AI gateway with safety and governance (...37.4

Companies reaching this through an API (6)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “AI Gateway” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Amberflo Axway Cequence Security FeedOracle Technologies Netlify Stanford University

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
64.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
12.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

API Gateway 15 co-occurrences Model Routing 5 co-occurrences Rate Limiting 5 co-occurrences Responses 7 co-occurrences API Management 8 co-occurrences OpenAI-Compatible 6 co-occurrences Gateways 8 co-occurrences LLM 21 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag34
Api tag30
Openapi tag2
Openapi op tag3

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 34 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged AI Gateway, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
34
all scored
Mean Kin Score
52.6
+29.7 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
31.7
+19.8 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
27.4–80.6
median 52.8 · σ 11.4
How the 34 split by band
Exemplar 3Strong 10Developing 15Thin 6Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 60.6 23.2 +37.4 34
Operational Transparency 44.5 13.7 +30.8 34
Access Clarity 57.2 26.5 +30.7 34
Contract Quality 47.7 17.6 +30.1 34
Contract Governance 18.8 6.3 +12.5 34
Discoverability 68.8 58.1 +10.7 34

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 47% 14% +33
MCP server (first-party) 35% 12% +23
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 11% -2
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 12% 2% +10
Governance rules 53% 14% +39

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Cloudflare 80.6
  2. 2 Kong 73.2
  3. 3 Microsoft Azure API Management 72.9
  4. 4 Gravitee 65.2
  5. 5 Solo.io 63
  6. 6 Zuplo 62.3
  7. 7 Eden AI 62.2
  8. 8 Vercel 59
  9. 9 Aptible 58.5
  10. 10 Edgee 58.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Cloudflare 72.5
  2. 2 Insforge 57.7
  3. 3 Zuplo 51.5
  4. 4 2s 47.3
  5. 5 Eden AI 47.1
  6. 6 Kong 46.9
  7. 7 Vercel 45.7
  8. 8 Cloudflare AI Gateway 44.6
  9. 9 gpt55-token-gateway 43.9
  10. 10 Solo.io 37.6
All 34 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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