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API Gateway

Score 29.8 / 100 87 providers +26 via APIs 72 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (87)

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

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
CloudflareAI GatewayArtificial IntelligenceCDN25 APIs80.6JitterbitAPI ManagementAutomationIntegrationiPaaS1 API74.0KongKongAI GatewayAI Connectivity2 APIs73.2Microsoft Azure API ManagementA2AAI GatewayAPI Center1 API72.9ApigeeApigeeAdvanced API SecurityAI AgentsAnalytics5 APIs70.8Amazon API GatewayCloudRESTHTTP13 APIs70.0
Strong 12 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5ApplicationSecurityLoad Balancing8 APIs66.1AIMLAPIArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAI ModelsLLM2 APIs65.2GraviteeAPI ManagementAccess ManagementIdentity2 APIs65.2VendiaCompanyMCPArtificial IntelligenceData Sharing1 API64.7TykAPI ManagementGraphQLOpen Source4 APIs64.0Solo.ioCompanyService MeshKubernetes5 APIs63.0ZuploAI GatewayAPI ManagementGatewaysPlatform1 API62.3GlooCloud-NativeDeveloper PortalEnvoy8 APIs57.8CitiBankingFinancial ServicesOpen BankingPayments196 APIs57.5Traefik LabsAI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API57.0FusioAPI ManagementOpen SourceREST API4 APIs55.4MuleSoftAPI ManagementEnterpriseIntegration1 API54.8
Developing 30 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
AgentGatewayAI GatewayMCPLLM1 API54.2ApiableAmazon API GatewayAPI MonetizationAPI Portal1 API53.6SLNGCompanySpeechVoiceSpeech-to-Text7 APIs53.6AklivityAI GatewayAgent InfrastructureApache Kafka4 APIs53.2WunderGraphFederationGraphQLManagementSchema Registry11 APIs53.0Citrix NetScalerApplication Delivery ControllerApplication SecurityLoad Balancing1 API52.4XGuardAgentsAgentic Commercex402MCP2 APIs52.3MCP360MCPMCP ServerMCP GatewayAI Agents38 APIs51.8Red Hat 3scaleAPI ManagementDeveloper PortalDeveloper Tools5 APIs51.0University of California, San DiegoEducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research University4 APIs51.0LunarAPI ManagementAI GatewayMCP Gateway3 APIs50.7SpekoVoiceVoice AISpeech-to-TextText-to-Speech1 API50.5Google Cloud API GatewayAPI ManagementAuthenticationGoogle Cloud1 API50.0University of CambridgeEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch1 API50.0MCP ManagerCompanyMCPAI Governance1 API48.9University of HelsinkiEducationHigher EducationUniversityFinland19 APIs48.8Apache APISIXApacheCloud-NativeKubernetes2 APIs48.3University of California, Santa BarbaraEducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research University42 APIs47.7ApinizerAPI ManagementAPI MonitoringAPI Security1 API47.4ngrokAI GatewayComputeDeveloper Tools1 API46.3ApimanAPI ManagementDeveloper PortalJava1 API45.5Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch2 APIs45.0NGINXNGINXCachingCloud-Native1 API44.9RouterPlexLLMArtificial IntelligenceAI GatewayInference1 API43.5Google Cloud EndpointsAPI ManagementAuthenticationGoogle Cloud1 API42.8Envoy GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs42.4PaleBlueDot.AIArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLMInference2 APIs42.3RapidAPIAPI MarketplaceAPI ManagementAPI Testing6 APIs41.7Aalto UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationFinland5 APIs39.9Apache KnoxAuthenticationHadoopOpen Source1 API39.9
Thin 22 Limited public surface area
AI GatewayAI GatewayLLM RouterLLM ProxyModel Routing1 API37.4KrakenDAggregationGoOpen Source1 API37.1GrafbaseGraphQLFederationSchema Registry1 API36.8The GuildAPI CompositionAPI ObservabilityBreaking Change Detection10 APIs36.7SapiomCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAI AgentsAgent Infrastructure1 API36.2Express GatewayAPI CompositionBFFOpen Source1 API35.7MindlogicCompanyAi MlGenerative AIConversational AI1 API35.7Spring Cloud GatewayCircuit BreakerLoad BalancingMicroservices1 API35.5Ocelot.NETMicroservicesOpen Source1 API34.9IBM API ConnectAPI ManagementDeveloper PortalDeveloper Tools3 APIs34.6WeaveAPI - OpenAI-compatible AI API GatewayArtificial IntelligenceLLMInference2 APIs34.0APIIDAAPI ManagementFederated API ManagementGovernance2 APIs32.9RunlayerCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAI AgentsMCP1 API32.9Software AGAPI ManagementEnterprise IntegrationiPaaSwebMethods1 API32.6SafeLineProxyWAFSecurityOpen Source1 API32.4APIParkAI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API32.2TailcallGraphQLGraphQL RuntimeREST2 APIs31.9StepZenBackend IntegrationGraphQLREST to GraphQL1 API31.6HiscoxInsuranceUnited KingdomProperty and CasualtySpecialty Insurance4 APIs31.5Emissary-IngressCloud-NativeEnvoyIncubating1 API31.1RhapsodyHealthcareUnited StatesInteroperabilityIntegration Engine6 APIs28.9Cumulus LabsCompanyInferenceLLMAI Infrastructure1 API26.5
Emerging 15 Early or largely undocumented
APIwizAPI DesignAPI GovernanceAPI Lifecycle1 API26.1Deutsche TelekomTelecommunicationsMobile Network OperatorCPaaSNetwork APIs8 APIs26.0AdaptigentMainframeIntegrationLegacy Systems1 API25.7PrimericaInsuranceFinancial ServicesLife InsuranceIdentity1 API25.2University of IndonesiaEducationHigher EducationUniversityIndonesia8 APIs22.6Containous (Traefik Labs)CompanyCloud-NativeReverse ProxyLoad Balancer21.2MembraneArtificial IntelligenceAutomationIntegration1 API20.5HigressCloud-NativeIstioKubernetes4 APIs20.4Bloomberg PlatformPlatformInfrastructureData Distribution3 APIs19.4MOSNService MeshProxyCloud-Native1 API17.1Lura ProjectGoLinux FoundationMicroservices2 APIs17.0Netflix ZuulEdge ServiceNetflixOpen Source4 APIs15.8wacaiCompanyFintechPersonal FinanceAccounting1 API12.8caimitechCompanyFintechPersonal FinanceWealth Management12.4Web MethodsCompanyIntegrationiPaaSAPI Management12.4
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
SyncloopAPI ManagementAPI DevelopmentIntegration PlatformLow-Code1 API9.6idsmanagerCompanyIdentityAuthenticationAuthorization3.4

APIs with this tag (72)

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 8 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Cloudflare API Shield APICloudflare API Shield provides API discovery, schema validation, and security features to protect APIs from...80.6Kong GatewayKong Gateway is the open-source, lightweight, cloud-native API gateway optimized for microservices, deliver...73.2Google ApigeeApigee is Google Cloud's API management platform enabling organizations to design, secure, publish, analyze...70.8Red Hat 3scale API ManagementAPI management platform providing access control, rate limiting, analytics, and developer portal capabiliti...70.6Google Cloud API GatewayAPI Gateway enables you to provide secure access to your backend services through a well-defined REST API t...70.1Amazon API Gateway PortalsThe API Gateway Portals control plane (introduced November 19, 2025) lets you create branded developer port...70.0IBM API ConnectCreate, secure, manage, share, monetize, and analyze APIs across clouds with a comprehensive end-to-end API...69.1Boomi API Gateway GraphQL APIThe Boomi API Gateway GraphQL API enables developers to retrieve and modify data related to API Gateway man...67.6
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5 NGINX Management Suite APIREST API for managing NGINX instances, monitoring performance, and configuring application delivery through...66.1Oracle API Gateway APIThe apiGateway API from Oracle — 18 operation(s) for apigateway.66.0SnapLogic API ManagementSnapLogic API Management enables organizations to create, manage, secure, and monitor APIs throughout their...59.6Celigo API ManagementCeligo API Management allows organizations to build, publish, and govern APIs on top of Celigo-managed inte...58.1Gloo EdgeGloo Edge is a feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway built on Envoy Proxy, sup...57.8Traefik Hub API GatewayCommercial Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Traefik Proxy. Adds a native WAF (claimed 23x faster than...57.0Traefik ProxyTraefik Proxy is the flagship open-source (MIT) cloud-native reverse proxy, ingress controller, and load ba...57.0Axway API GatewayAxway API Gateway is an enterprise-grade API gateway providing security, mediation, and traffic management ...56.1SAP Integration Suite API ManagementAPIs for building, managing, publishing, and monitoring API proxies within SAP Integration Suite.55.4MuleSoft Anypoint PlatformMuleSoft Anypoint Platform unifies API management with integration, providing a complete solution to connec...54.8
Developing 21 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Apiable API Portal PlatformApiable provides a self-service API portal platform for API product managers and developers. It offers sing...53.6Temenos Explorer APIAPIs for the Temenos Explorer framework, providing an API gateway for server-to-server API calls with Keycl...53.4Zilla GatewayZilla is a stateless, cloud-native multi-protocol edge and service proxy that enables seamless access to Ap...53.2UC San Diego API Gateway (WSO2 API Manager)The campus API gateway, running WSO2 API Manager 4.1.0 at api.ucsd.edu on UC San Diego address space (169.2...51.0Lunar API Consumption GatewayThe Lunar API Consumption Gateway is a proxy-based infrastructure layer that routes outbound HTTP/HTTPS API...50.7Cambridge API Gateway (Card / Student / HR)UIS API Gateway (ALPHA) publishing read-oriented REST APIs — University Card, University Student (CamSIS-so...50.0University of Helsinki API Portal (Gravitee)The University's own API developer portal and gateway — a self-hosted Gravitee API Management deployment. T...48.8Apache APISIX GatewayApache APISIX provides rich traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream configur...48.3Boomi API Developer Portal (UMN tenant)The University's developer portal for the Common Good APIs runs as a UMN-specific tenant on Boomi's cloud a...48.0UCSB Campus API GatewayThe single API front door for the campus, at api.ucsb.edu. Every campus API is published as a proxy on it a...47.7Tanium API GatewayThe Tanium API Gateway is a GraphQL interface for querying data and taking action in Tanium. It is the pref...46.9ApimanApiman is an open source API management platform with a developer portal, API gateway, and management UI su...45.5HKUST API Gateway and API PortalHKUST's Azure API Management tenant, operated by the IT Services Office. The gateway is live and callable a...45.0NGINXNGINX is a versatile open-source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media...44.9Spring Cloud Gateway APISpring Cloud Gateway provides an API Gateway built on Spring WebFlux and Reactor. It offers route configura...44.4HKU ITS API Developer Portal and GatewayHKU Information Technology Services runs an Azure API Management gateway at api.hku.hk and a developer port...44.0Envoy GatewayEnvoy Gateway's configuration API is a set of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions in the gateway.envoypr...42.4PBD TokenRouter Inference APIOpenAI-, Anthropic- and Gemini-compatible inference gateway. One API key and one base URL route requests ac...42.3EUR API Gateway (api.eur.nl)An EUR-operated Kong API gateway. It is unambiguously live and unambiguously closed: the root returns 401 a...41.8Aalto API GatewayAalto's own Red Hat 3scale API gateway, the front door to every institution-operated API at Aalto. Five API...39.9Apache Knox Gateway APIThe Knox gateway proxies and secures access to Hadoop ecosystem services including HDFS WebHDFS, Hive, HBas...39.9
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Apache APISIX AI ProxyThe Apache APISIX ai-proxy plugin streamlines integration with LLMs by converting plugin settings into the ...37.4Kong AI GatewayThe Kong AI Gateway is delivered as the AI Proxy plugin for Kong Gateway, transforming and proxying request...37.4KrakenDKrakenD Community Edition is an ultra-high performance API gateway that aggregates multiple service calls i...37.1GraphQL Mesh APIGraphQL federation framework that composes any API service — REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, SOAP, OData, JSON Schema,...36.7Hive GatewayHive Gateway is a federated GraphQL routing engine from The Guild that supports both Apollo Federation and ...36.7Express GatewayExpress Gateway is an API gateway built on Express.js for managing and securing microservices and APIs.35.7Spring Cloud Gateway CoreCore routing and filtering capabilities including predicate factories (Path, Host, Method, Header, Query, C...35.5Consul Connect GatewaysConsul Connect supports four gateway types for traffic flowing into and out of the mesh: mesh gateways for ...35.0Ocelot API GatewayOcelot is an open-source .NET API Gateway that provides routing, authentication, authorization, rate limiti...34.9WeaveAPI OpenAI-compatible APIOpenAI-wire-compatible REST API for chat completions, responses-style requests and the model catalog, authe...34.0UC Berkeley API GatewayThe single centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley campus, operated by Berkeley IT on ...33.0FAU API Gateway (api.fau.de)api.fau.de is an FAU-operated API portal — the browser title is "FAU API", the single-page application is s...32.5Tailcall GraphQL RuntimeHigh-performance GraphQL runtime for composing multiple upstream REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs into a unifie...31.9CCC Platform API GatewayCCC's production API gateway. GET https://api.cccis.com/v1 returns HTTP 401 with an RFC 6750 Bearer challen...30.6DataDome Server Modules & SDKsDataDome ships 40+ server-side integrations (web servers, CDNs, application frameworks, API gateways) that ...28.9Rhapsody Guardian (Healthcare API Gateway)Rhapsody Guardian is a healthcare-purpose-built API gateway, launched October 2025, that lets healthcare or...28.9api.sydney.edu.au — MuleSoft Anypoint gateway (not publicly reachable)api.sydney.edu.au resolves in DNS to usyd-lb-p.lb.anypointdns.net — a MuleSoft Anypoint Platform dedicated ...28.042Crunch API Protection42Crunch API Protection deploys an API-native micro firewall (API Firewall) that provides runtime defense a...27.5
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
Open Telekom Integration PlatformCloud-native, ubiquitous enterprise integration platform open-sourced by Deutsche Telekom. Combines a Kong-...26.0Primerica API GatewayPrimerica's own API gateway (Broadcom/CA Layer7 — unmatched paths return a SOAP "Policy Falsified" fault in...25.2UI API Gateway (Kong Enterprise)api.ui.ac.id is a Kong Enterprise 3.3.1.0 API gateway operated by the university on its own network. Every ...22.6UC API GatewayAn institution-operated enterprise API gateway on the University of Canterbury's own registrable domain. Di...22.4api.data.govFree API management gateway operated by the U.S. General Services Administration's Technology Transformatio...22.2Broadcom Layer 7 API Management (CA API Gateway)Enterprise API management platform (formerly CA API Management / Layer 7) that provides API gateways, devel...20.9HigressHigress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management...20.4Higress AI GatewayHigress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routi...20.4MOSNMOSN is a cloud-native network proxy that supports multiple protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC), dynamic rou...17.1Lura FrameworkThe Lura Framework is an open-source Go library for building ultra-high-performance API gateways with middl...17.0Lura ProjectLura Project is an open source framework for building ultra-performant API gateways with middlewares.17.0Netflix ZuulNetflix Zuul is a gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security.15.8Netflix Zuul GatewayNetflix Zuul is an L7 application gateway built on Netty that provides dynamic routing, load balancing, aut...15.8
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
Syncloop API Management PlatformThe Syncloop API Management Platform provides REST APIs for managing API services, configurations, deployme...9.6island.is GraphQL GatewaySingle GraphQL gateway at api.island.is wrapping internal REST microservices that power island.is applicati...7.4

Companies reaching this through an API (26)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “API 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.

42Crunch Axway Boomi CA Technologies (Broadcom) CCC Intelligent Solutions Celigo Consul Connect DataDome Erasmus University Rotterdam Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Google IBM island.is (Digital Iceland) Oracle Public Sector Red Hat SAP SnapLogic Spring Framework Tanium Temenos University of California, Berkeley University of Canterbury University of Hong Kong University of Minnesota University of Sydney

Score breakdown

Frequency
59.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
2.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
26.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

API Management 37 co-occurrences Developer Portal 27 co-occurrences AI Gateway 15 co-occurrences Rate Limiting 9 co-occurrences Reverse Proxy 7 co-occurrences Envoy 7 co-occurrences Gateways 12 co-occurrences Cloud-Native 14 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag72
Provider tag87

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 87 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged API Gateway, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
87
all scored
Mean Kin Score
42.1
+19.2 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
23
+11.1 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
3.4–80.6
median 42.4 · σ 16.7
How the 87 split by band
Exemplar 6Strong 12Developing 30Thin 22Emerging 15Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 48.3 23.2 +25.1 87
Contract Quality 39.4 17.6 +21.8 87
Operational Transparency 30.6 13.7 +16.9 87
Access Clarity 41 26.5 +14.5 87
Contract Governance 17.5 6.3 +11.2 87
Discoverability 66.3 58.1 +8.2 87

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) 24% 14% +10
MCP server (first-party) 17% 12% +5
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 17% 11% +6
Security 99% 98% +1
Arazzo workflows 7% 2% +5
Governance rules 51% 14% +37

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 Jitterbit 74
  3. 3 Kong 73.2
  4. 4 Microsoft Azure API Management 72.9
  5. 5 Apigee 70.8
  6. 6 Amazon API Gateway 70
  7. 7 F5 66.1
  8. 8 AIMLAPI 65.2
  9. 9 Gravitee 65.2
  10. 10 Vendia 64.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Cloudflare 72.5
  2. 2 Speko 60.5
  3. 3 AIMLAPI 55.1
  4. 4 Citi 52.3
  5. 5 Zuplo 51.5
  6. 6 Fusio 50.6
  7. 7 F5 49.1
  8. 8 Kong 46.9
  9. 9 XGuard 46.4
  10. 10 MuleSoft 44.2
All 87 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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