Use Case

API Gateway & Traffic Management

Routing, throttling, and securing API traffic.

35 providers 609 APIs 29 declared variants

The runtime layer in front of APIs — routing and versioning, rate limits and quotas, authentication offload, transformation, and traffic shaping across backends.

35 API providers on the APIs.io network offer api gateway & traffic management. The highest-rated are Solo.io, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Cloudflare, AWS App Mesh, Axway.

Providers

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

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Solo.io Solo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-so... 15 APIs 81.9 Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple target... 5 APIs 71.4 Cloudflare Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fas... 87 APIs 69.9
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AWS App Mesh AWS App Mesh is a service mesh based on the Envoy proxy that provides application-level networking to make ... 4 APIs 65.5 Axway Axway provides API management, integration, and security solutions enabling organizations to connect, secur... 33 APIs 65.2 F5 Networks F5 Networks is a leader in application delivery networking technology that specializes in application avail... 14 APIs 63.3 Tyk Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs wi... 39 APIs 63.1 WSO2 WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible... 90 APIs 62.6 Kong Kong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on ... 139 APIs 59.6 Lunar.dev Lunar.dev is an enterprise-grade gateway platform for AI governance and third-party API consumption control... 5 APIs 57.0
Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DreamFactory Automate the building, securing, and documenting of REST APIs for data products with built-in enterprise se... 16 APIs 55.4 Ambassador Ambassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth... 11 APIs 54.2 Apache APISIX Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d... 18 APIs 53.4 Apache Knox Apache Knox is a REST API and application gateway for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides a single acc... 4 APIs 52.8 Amazon App Mesh AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services... 4 APIs 51.6 APIIDA APIIDA provides market-leading solutions for multi-vendor, cross-platform federated API management. The API... 6 APIs 51.6 Azure Load Balancer Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, low-latency layer-4 load balancing service for distributing inbo... 2 APIs 49.6 Apache Dubbo Apache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t... 16 APIs 47.2 ngrok AI Gateway ngrok AI Gateway provides traffic management and security for AI APIs including multi-provider routing, aut... 3 APIs 47.0 Apache Helix Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed resources... 5 APIs 46.8 Test Rate Limit Check Testing and validation of API rate limiting implementations to ensure that APIs correctly enforce request q... 9 APIs 46.7 Vert.x Eclipse Vert.x is a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM, providing support for multiple l... 7 APIs 46.5 Apache HTTP Server Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is the world's most widely used web server software. It serves static and dynami... 3 APIs 46.3 NGINX NGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal... 32 APIs 44.8 Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression... 5 APIs 44.7 Solo.io Solo.io provides enterprise infrastructure for cloud-native and AI-native environments, including API gatew... 4 APIs 43.8 Traefik Mesh Traefik Mesh (formerly Maesh) is a lightweight, non-invasive service mesh built on top of Traefik Proxy for... 3 APIs 42.5
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Apiman Apiman is an open source API management platform featuring a REST API, manager UI, and standalone developer... 16 APIs 41.6 BFE BFE (Beyond Front End) is an open-source layer 7 load balancer developed by Baidu, providing advanced traff... 3 APIs 35.8 Apache Camel Apache Camel is an open-source integration framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation that imple... 4 APIs 30.8
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides open source softwa... 1 API 25.9 APIwiz APIwiz is a federated API management platform that streamlines the complete API lifecycle from design throu... 1 API 24.3 Ambient Mesh Ambient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu... 1 API 23.9 Varnish Cache Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy designed for content-heavy dynamic w... 3 APIs 23.4 API Stack API Stack is a free directory and discovery platform powered by Apideck that catalogs 213+ third-party API ... 1 API 20.4

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

API GatewayAPI Gateway BackendAPI Gateway CachingAPI Gateway IntegrationAPI Gateway MigrationAPI Gateway ModernizationAPI Gateway Rate Limit ValidationAPI Gateway SelectionAPI Gateway and Traffic ManagementAPI ManagementApplication Load BalancingCentralized AI API ManagementEgress API ProxyEnterprise 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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