Use Case
API Gateway & Traffic Management
Routing, throttling, and securing API traffic.
29 providers
98 APIs
25 declared variants
The runtime layer in front of APIs — routing and versioning, rate limits and quotas, authentication offload, transformation, and traffic shaping across backends.
29 API providers on the APIs.io network offer api gateway & traffic management. The highest-rated are WSO2, Cloudflare, Kong, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Solo.io.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
WSO2WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible...CloudflareCloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fas...KongKong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on ...
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon Elastic Load BalancingAmazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple target...Solo.ioSolo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-so...TykTyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs wi...AWS App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh based on the Envoy proxy that provides application-level networking to make ...AxwayAxway provides API management, integration, and security solutions enabling organizations to connect, secur...
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Azure Load BalancerAzure Load Balancer is a high-performance, low-latency layer-4 load balancing service for distributing inbo...Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...ApimanApiman is an open source API management platform featuring a REST API, manager UI, and standalone developer...Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...DreamFactoryAutomate the building, securing, and documenting of REST APIs for data products with built-in enterprise se...
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Apache TomcatApache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression...Apache KnoxApache Knox is a REST API and application gateway for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides a single acc...Apache HelixApache Helix is a generic cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed resources...AmbassadorAmbassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth...Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu...Vert.xEclipse Vert.x is a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM, providing support for multiple l...APIIDAAPIIDA provides market-leading solutions for multi-vendor, cross-platform federated API management. The API...Apache HTTP ServerApache HTTP Server (httpd) is the world's most widely used web server software. It serves static and dynami...BFEBFE (Beyond Front End) is an open-source layer 7 load balancer developed by Baidu, providing advanced traff...Apache CamelApache Camel is an open-source integration framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation that imple...Traefik MeshTraefik Mesh (formerly Maesh) is a lightweight, non-invasive service mesh built on top of Traefik Proxy for...
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
APIwizAPIwiz is a federated API management platform that streamlines the complete API lifecycle from design throu...Apache Software FoundationThe Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides open source softwa...Varnish CacheVarnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy designed for content-heavy dynamic w...API StackAPI Stack is a free, public directory and discovery platform for third-party API tooling, built and operate...
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API GatewayAPI Gateway BackendAPI Gateway CachingAPI Gateway IntegrationAPI Gateway MigrationAPI Gateway ModernizationAPI Gateway SelectionAPI Gateway and Traffic ManagementAPI ManagementEnterprise API GatewayEnterprise API ManagementLLM Traffic ManagementMicroservices Load BalancingMicroservices Traffic ManagementMulti-Cloud API ManagementMulti-Team API ManagementMulti-Vendor API ManagementOn-Premise API ManagementProtect APIs with schema validation and rate limitingREST API ProxyingRate Limiting and ThrottlingReverse Proxy for ApplicationsTraffic ManagementVM Scale Set Load BalancingWeb Application Load Balancing
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