Compare the Top API Gateways as of December 2025

What are API Gateways?

API gateways act as centralized entry points that manage, secure, and route requests between clients and backend services in an application or microservices architecture. They handle essential functions such as authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, caching, and request transformation to optimize performance and security. By consolidating these controls, API gateways simplify communication, reduce latency, and ensure consistent governance across multiple APIs. They also provide analytics and monitoring to help developers track usage and detect issues in real time. Ultimately, API gateways improve scalability, reliability, and security for modern, distributed applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Gateways currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Tyk

    Tyk

    Tyk Technologies

    Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.
    Starting Price: $600/month
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    MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
    Anypoint Platform by MuleSoft is a leading solution for API management, integration, and automation that accelerates IT project delivery. It enables businesses to build, deploy, secure, and manage APIs across any environment, from cloud to on-premises. With support for multiple protocols and integration with CI/CD pipelines, the platform streamlines application development and data transformation. It offers automated security and governance, ensuring compliance with industry standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR. Real-time monitoring and analytics help teams manage APIs and troubleshoot issues effectively. Anypoint Platform empowers enterprises to create resilient, scalable, and future-proof digital architectures.
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    WSO2 API Manager
    One complete platform for building, integrating, and exposing your digital services as managed APIs in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures to drive your digital transformation strategy. Implement industry-standard authorization flows — such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, and JWTs — out of the box and integrate with your existing identity access or key management tools. Build APIs from existing services, manage APIs from internally built applications and from third-party providers, and monitor their usage and performance from inception to retirement. Provide real-time access to API usage and performance statistics to decision-makers to optimize your developer support, continuously improve your services, and drive further adoption to reach your business goals.
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    Kong Konnect
    Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform brokers an organization’s information across all services. Built on top of Kong’s battle-tested core, Kong Konnect Enterprise enables customers to simplify management of APIs and microservices across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. With Kong Konnect Enterprise, customers can proactively identify anomalies and threats, automate tasks, and improve visibility across their entire organization. Stop managing your applications and services, and start owning them with the Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform. Kong Konnect Enterprise provides the industry’s lowest latency and highest scalability to ensure your services always perform at their best. Kong Konnect has a lightweight, open source core that allows you to optimize performance across all your services, no matter where they run.
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    Csmart iPaaS

    Csmart iPaaS

    Covalense Digital Solutions

    Covalense Digital’s iPaaS API Gateway platform is a future-ready solution that simplifies integration across diverse systems, channels, and partner ecosystems. As a powerful API integration platform, it enables telecoms and enterprises to accelerate digital transformation by connecting legacy systems with modern cloud-native applications. With built-in support for TM Forum Open APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture, the platform ensures seamless interoperability, faster onboarding, and reduced integration costs. Designed as an API automation platform, it offers centralized governance, security, and analytics while supporting low-code configuration and scalable deployment models. Recognised among trusted iPaaS providers, Covalense Digital delivers flexible and reliable integration capabilities that help businesses innovate faster, respond to market demands swiftly, and create connected experiences with confidence.
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    SecurityForEveryone

    SecurityForEveryone

    SecurityForEveryone

    S4E:Shelter automatically understands the technology you have, prioritizes and performs security assessments optimized for your application without the need for technical expertise. S4E:Shelter is an automated security assessment tool that detects the tech stack of your assets and their vulnerabilities using machine learning, and offers actionable solutions to you. Your security is up to date. S4E:Solidarity is an API gateway to make the cybersecurity process easier for apps. So, developers can integrate the security process into their development cycle. S4E:Equality is a repository of more than 500 free cybersecurity assessment tools. Anyone can use these tools to detect security vulnerabilities according to their specific needs. S4E:Education is a security awareness training platform that helps you learn about the fundamentals of cybersecurity using quizzes and social engineering attacks.
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    Axway Amplify
    To become the hero, not the roadblock, many IT departments are investing in integration platforms that let users accomplish projects themselves, instead of waiting for an IT specialist. Whether it’s cutting the budget, struggling to get to the cloud, or tackling a growing project backlog, IT is challenged like never before. To become the hero, not the roadblock, many IT organizations are investing in platforms that let users accomplish projects themselves, instead of waiting for an IT specialist. Axway Amplify Platform is the enterprise integration platform that that can hide integration complexity, enforce IT policy, and scale at will, enabling your teams to: Stop repetitive one-off integrations, and focus on reusable integrations that can be leveraged by wider internal and external teams. Gain cloud cost savings and increase scale by moving on-premises integration silos to the cloud, or by leveraging them in place with hybrid deployment, and much more.
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    Traefik

    Traefik

    Traefik Labs

    What is Traefik Enterprise Edition? TraefikEE is a cloud-native load balancer and Kubernetes ingress controller that eases networking complexity for application teams. Built on top of open source Traefik, TraefikEE brings exclusive distributed and high-availability features combined with premium bundled support for production grade deployments. Split into proxies and controllers, TraefikEE supports clustered deployments to increase security, scalability and high availability. Deploy applications anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud, and natively integrate with top-notch infrastructure tooling. Save time and give better consistency while deploying, managing, and scaling applications by leveraging dynamic and automatic TraefikEE features. Improve the application development and delivery cycle by giving developers the visibility and ownership of their services.
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    Google Cloud Endpoints
    Develop, deploy, protect, and monitor your APIs with Cloud Endpoints. An NGINX-based proxy and distributed architecture give unparalleled performance and scalability. Using an OpenAPI Specification or one of our API frameworks, Cloud Endpoints gives you the tools you need for every phase of API development and provides insight with Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Trace. Control who has access to your API and validate every call with JSON Web Tokens and Google API keys. Integration with Auth0 and Firebase Authentication lets you identify the users of your web or mobile application. Extensible Service Proxy delivers security and insight in less than 1 ms per call. Deploy your API automatically with App Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine, or add our proxy container to your Kubernetes deployment. Monitor critical operations metrics in Google Cloud Console, and gain insight into your users and usage with Cloud Trace, Cloud Logging, and BigQuery.
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    Everest

    Everest

    Everest

    Everest is a decentralized platform with a massively scalable payment solution, EverChain, with a multi-currency wallet, EverWallet, a native biometric identity system, EverID, a value tracking token, the CRDT, all integrated to existing infrastructure with an easy to deploy software appliance, The Everest API Gateway. Everest delivers a complete solution for a new economy. The financial services toolbox provided by the Everest platform is able to be used to solve many different value transfer, tracking, and delivery challenges that you face every day. Below are some example solutions, contact us to tailor a solution for your specific needs. Cloud Fintech platform providing a regulatory compliance and value transfer toolkit which solves a variety of identity, value transfer, audit, reporting and agent management challenges. Everest is a decentralized platform incorporating a massively scalable payment solution, EverChain, with a multi-currency wallet, EverWallet, etc.
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    Apache Knox

    Apache Knox

    Apache Software Foundation

    The Knox API Gateway is designed as a reverse proxy with consideration for pluggability in the areas of policy enforcement, through providers and the backend services for which it proxies requests. Policy enforcement ranges from authentication/federation, authorization, audit, dispatch, hostmapping and content rewrite rules. Policy is enforced through a chain of providers that are defined within the topology deployment descriptor for each Apache Hadoop cluster gated by Knox. The cluster definition is also defined within the topology deployment descriptor and provides the Knox Gateway with the layout of the cluster for purposes of routing and translation between user facing URLs and cluster internals. Each Apache Hadoop cluster that is protected by Knox has its set of REST APIs represented by a single cluster specific application context path. This allows the Knox Gateway to both protect multiple clusters and present the REST API consumer with a single endpoint.
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    SnapLogic

    SnapLogic

    SnapLogic

    Quickly ramp up, learn and use SnapLogic to create, multi-point, enterprise- wide app and data integrations. Easily expose and manage pipeline APIs that extend your world. Eliminate slower, manual, error-prone methods and deliver faster results for business processes such as customer onboarding, employee onboarding and off-boarding, quote to cash, ERP SKU forecasting, support ticket creation, and more. Monitor, manage, secure, and govern your data pipelines, application integrations, and API calls––all from a single pane of glass. Launch automated workflows for any department, across your enterprise, in minutes – not days. To deliver superior employee experiences, the SnapLogic platform can bring together employee data across all your enterprise HR apps and data stores. Learn how SnapLogic can help you quickly set up seamless experiences powered by automated processes.
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