ngrok is a cloud networking platform for securing, transforming, and routing traffic to services wherever they run.
Alternatives to agentgateway
Higress is an open-source AI-native API gateway built on Istio and Envoy for governing LLM APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, and cloud-native traffic.
Traefik Proxy is an open-source reverse proxy and ingress controller for deploying services and APIs.
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Kusk Gateway
Kusk Gateway is a Kubernetes API gateway based on Envoy, with native OpenAPI support.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.5Free plan - 5

BFE Ingress Controller
BFE Ingress Controller is a free, open-source Layer 7 load balancer derived from Baidu’s proprietary Baidu Front End.
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.2Free plan - 6
LiteSpeed Ingress Controller
LiteSpeed Ingress Controller is the Kubernetes ingress component of LiteSpeed Web ADC, a software HTTP load balancer and application delivery controller.
WebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.6From $715 a year - 7

Envoy Gateway
Envoy Gateway is an open-source application gateway that manages Envoy Proxy in standalone or Kubernetes-based deployments.
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 8

Airlock Microgateway
Free planAPISelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 9

NGINX Gateway Fabric
NGINX Gateway Fabric is a self-hosted Kubernetes implementation of the Gateway API, using NGINX as its data plane for load balancing, reverse…
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 10

Skipper
Skipper is a free, open-source HTTP router and reverse proxy for composing services, including Kubernetes Ingress deployments.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.9 - 11

Apache APISIX
Apache APISIX is an open-source gateway for routing, securing, and managing traffic to APIs, microservices, and LLM workloads.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.8 - 12

F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services
F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services (CIS) connects Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift environments to F5 BIG-IP, updating network configuration as…
Free planAPISelf-hosted5.8Free plan - 13

Contour
Contour is an open-source, self-hosted Kubernetes ingress controller that provides the control plane for Envoy, the edge and service proxy.
Free planSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 14

HAProxy Ingress
HAProxy Ingress is a free, self-hosted controller that configures HAProxy to route external requests to applications in a Kubernetes cluster.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 15

NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller is self-hosted software for routing Kubernetes traffic and balancing WebSocket, gRPC, TCP, and UDP applications.
Free planSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 16

A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector
A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) monitors Kubernetes application lifecycles and updates an external Thunder ADC load balancer to direct traffic to applications.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.4 - 17
N42 Gateway
N42 Gateway is a free, open-source controller for routing external requests to applications inside a Kubernetes cluster.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.4 - 18
NetScaler Ingress Controller
NetScaler Ingress Controller configures NetScaler appliances from Kubernetes Ingress rules and routes traffic into Kubernetes clusters.
Self-hosted5.4 - 19

HAProxy Enterprise
HAProxy Enterprise distributes incoming traffic among servers and checks server health, rerouting requests when a server begins to fail.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.3 - 20
OpenNJet Ingress Controller
OpenNJet Ingress Controller, also called OpenNJet KIC, is a free, Apache-2.0 Kubernetes Ingress Controller for self-hosted deployments.
Self-hosted5.3 - 21
Caddy Gateway
Caddy Gateway is a work-in-progress Kubernetes Gateway API implementation that uses Caddy as its web server.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.1 - 22

kgateway
kgateway is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway control plane.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.1 - 23

FortiWeb
Web4.9 - 24
4.4 - 25

Kong Ingress Controller
Kong Ingress Controller is free Linux software for managing Kubernetes ingress.
Linux4.4 - 264.4
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