Apache APISIX
Overview
Apache APISIX is a dynamic, high-performance API gateway built on NGINX and etcd. It handles traffic coming into your services and traffic between them, with load balancing, canary releases, circuit breaking, authentication and observability. It can also run as an AI gateway in front of LLM providers.
What it does well
APISIX changes routes and loads plugins while running, without a restart, which suits microservice setups. Its plugin system covers authentication, rate limiting, logging and more. As an AI gateway it routes requests to different LLM providers through one interface, balances load with retries and fallbacks across models, and limits usage by tokens to control cost. A quickstart script brings it up with Docker in one command.
Why it’s in the collection
APISIX is a mature Apache project that gives teams a self-hosted gateway for both regular APIs and LLM traffic. It's Apache-licensed.
On GitHub
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- Repository
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Languages
- Lua 82.2%
- Shell 9.5%
- Python 2.6%
- Other 5.7%
Compared with
KongAPI gateway with an open-source core and paid enterprise editions.
ApigeeGoogle Cloud's API management platform.
Amazon API GatewayAWS's managed API gateway service.
See every open-source alternative to Kong and Apigee in the collection.
