18.2
Amazon API Gateway is a managed service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing APIs that connect applications with backend services.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
Best API Gateway Software in 2026
When your software needs a front door for API traffic, gateway options differ in how they handle access, requests and deployment. Compare authentication methods and supported protocols, then consider rate limiting and request transformation to see which controls match your needs. Deployment model and free-plan availability can help shape your shortlist; monthly request limits and paid-from pricing add cost and…
27.7
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.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
37.3
Tyk Gateway manages API traffic and provides security, governance, auditing, and analytics.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
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Google Cloud Endpoints
Google Cloud Endpoints is an API management system for securing, monitoring, analyzing, and setting quotas on APIs.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.1$1.50 usage-based - 5
Gravitee API Gateway
Gravitee API Gateway is a runtime that applies security, transformation, and traffic policies to API traffic.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.1From $2,500 a month - 6
Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is an open-source API gateway designed for microservices and distributed architectures in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 7
Tencent Cloud API Gateway
Tencent Cloud API Gateway is a cloud service for managing APIs from creation and testing through release, operation, and deactivation.
Free planWebAPI6.7From $0.01 a month - 8
Automic Continuous Delivery Automation
Automic Continuous Delivery Automation orchestrates application releases and deployments, with real-time monitoring and release reporting.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.5 - 9
KrakenD API Gateway
KrakenD API Gateway is a stateless, distributed gateway for connecting, protecting, combining and transforming APIs and AI workloads.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.4Free plan - 10
Traefik Hub API Gateway
Traefik Hub API Gateway is a cloud-native, declarative gateway for managing and securing APIs and microservices.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.4 - 11
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 - 12
Google Cloud API Gateway
Google Cloud API Gateway provides a managed entry point for backend services, presenting them through a consistent REST API.
WebAPI6.1From $1.50 a month - 13
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway is a cloud service for publishing, securing, and governing web APIs and SOA-based systems.
WebAPI6.1 - 14
Tyk API Management
Tyk API Management is a platform for developing, operating, governing, and publishing APIs.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1 - 15
API7 Enterprise
API7 Enterprise manages API lifecycle workflows across teams and environments, using an Apache APISIX data plane with centralized management.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0 - 16
Lura
Lura is a free Go library for developers building a stateless API gateway or proxy for cloud-native and on-premises setups.
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 17
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 - 18
WSO2 Choreo Connect
WSO2 Choreo Connect is an open-source API gateway with Kubernetes support and API management features.
Free planAPISelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 19
Apache APISIX
Apache APISIX is an open-source gateway for routing, securing, and managing traffic to APIs, microservices, and LLM workloads.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.8 - 20
Ocelot
Ocelot is a free, open-source .NET API gateway for microservices, providing a shared entry point for HTTP and HTTPS services on platforms supported by ASP.NET Core.
Free planAPISelf-hosted5.8Free plan - 21
Emissary-ingress
Emissary-ingress is a free, open-source Kubernetes API gateway, Layer 7 load balancer, and Ingress built on Envoy.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 22
Ambassador Edge Stack
Ambassador Edge Stack is a self-hosted API gateway that routes traffic from a Kubernetes cluster edge to Kubernetes services.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.6 - 23
Zuul
Zuul is Netflix’s free, open-source, self-hosted Layer 7 application gateway for Linux.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.3 - 24
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Alibaba Cloud API Gateway
Alibaba Cloud API Gateway is a web-based cloud service for managing APIs.
Web5.1