APISIX

Dynamic cloud-native API gateway and AI gateway

About APISIX

A dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway providing load balancing, dynamic upstream routing, authentication, observability and many plugins, built on NGINX and etcd for cloud-native traffic. It is free and open source, so teams can self-host it, inspect the code and adapt it to their own infrastructure without licence fees or vendor lock-in. Typical users run it alongside existing workflows to cut manual effort, improve visibility and keep full control over data, configuration and upgrades over time.

APISIX key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: api gateway, cloud native, traffic, plugins
Official site: apisix.apache.org

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside APISIX, it includes KrakenD, Envoy, Linkerd, Istio.

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