API7 Cloud

An API gateway and an AI gateway that manage, secure, and scale API traffic and govern LLM and AI-agent calls, including routing, authentication, rate limiting, and observability for north-south and east-west traffic and L7/L4 protocols. It is for developers, IT and operations teams in B2B organizations that run microservices and AI workloads. Built by the original creators of Apache APISIX, it is delivered as open-source software with self-hosted enterprise and managed cloud options.

Key features

• Unified north-south and east-west traffic management
• L7 and L4 protocol proxy and transcoding
• 100+ plugins for transformation and security
• Canary release and blue-green deployment
• Circuit breaking and health checks
• Rate limiting and traffic throttling
• Fine-grained routing with traffic splitting
• GitOps via Admin API and declarative CLI
• OpenAPI and Gateway API support
• Model ensembles with judge synthesis
• Semantic routing by prompt intent
• MCP Gateway for MCP servers
• A2A Agent Gateway for agent traffic
• Load balancing with failover and retries
• Token rate limiting
• Prompt and response guardrails
• Token usage, latency and cost observability
• Authentication via Key, JWT, OAuth 2.0/OIDC
• Mutual TLS for client and upstream
• Web Application Firewall monitor and block
• Data masking for sensitive fields
• IP allow and deny lists
• Comprehensive audit logging