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API Gateways for Microservices

A directory of 13 leading API gateways for routing, securing, and scaling traffic across microservices and distributed architectures.

01

Kong Gateway

Built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures — the world's most adopted open source API gateway.

02

Apache APISIX

A performant cloud-native API gateway providing rich traffic management — load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, and observability.

03

Tyk

Unrivalled REST, SOAP, and GraphQL capability from a free, open source API gateway.

04

Ocelot

A lightweight, open source .NET API gateway built for microservices and service-oriented architectures.

05

Apinto

A Golang-based microservice gateway enabling high-performance dynamic routing, service orchestration, multi-tenancy management, and API access control.

06

Express Gateway

A microservices API gateway built on Express.js, offering plugin-based routing, policies, and authentication for Node.js environments.

07

Kgateway

An Envoy-powered, Kubernetes-native API gateway delivering high-throughput routing, security, and observability for cloud-native traffic.

08

KrakenD

A stateless, distributed, high-performance API gateway that helps you effortlessly adopt microservices.

09

Amazon API Gateway

Create, maintain, and secure APIs at any scale as a fully managed AWS service.

10

WSO2 API Microgateway

A cloud-native, developer-centric, decentralized API gateway purpose-built for microservices deployments.

11

Apiman

An open source API management platform combining a rich API design and configuration layer with a fast, modular Java-based runtime.

12

Gravitee API Gateway

An easy-to-use, high-performance, cost-effective open source API gateway that helps organizations secure, publish, and analyze their APIs.

13

Axway Amplify API Management

Takes all API requests from a client, determines which services are needed, and combines them into a unified, secure experience for the user.