Best Open Source API Gateway Tools

Open source api gateway tools, ranked by score and analyzed honestly. Part of our Infrastructure & DevOps coverage.

Ranked by score. Updated weekly.

1

Kong

83

Cloud-native API gateway

43,395 ★Luapermissive
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APISIX

83

Cloud-native API and AI gateway

16,597 ★Luapermissive
3

tyk

78

10,717 ★Goweak-copyleft
4

emissary

73

4,503 ★Pythonpermissive

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