With over 43,000 GitHub stars and adoption by companies including Nasdaq, Samsung, and Expedia, Kong Gateway is the world's most deployed open-source API gateway, processing billions of API requests daily across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures. Built on the battle-tested NGINX engine with OpenResty's LuaJIT runtime, Kong delivers sub-millisecond proxy latency while supporting REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, SOAP, and Kafka protocols. The plugin architecture includes authentication via JWT, Basic Auth, HMAC, key authentication, OAuth 2.0, and LDAP, alongside rate limiting with configurable windows per consumer, IP address, or API key. The AI Proxy plugin provides a universal LLM API that routes across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral, and Hugging Face through a single standardized interface, while MCP proxy capabilities convert REST APIs into MCP tools and provide traffic governance for AI agents. Kong supports declarative configuration via YAML for GitOps workflows, a RESTful Admin API for dynamic configuration, and decK CLI for version-controlled infrastructure-as-code management. Upstream health checking with active and passive probes enables automatic failover, and the ring balancer distributes traffic across upstream targets with consistent hashing, round-robin, or least-connections algorithms. The Kong Plugin Hub hosts over 100 community and official plugins covering logging, monitoring, transformation, security, and traffic control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

With 17,000 GitHub stars, 460+ contributors, and deployments across telecommunications, automotive, and financial services running on over 10,000 CPU cores at the largest known installations, Apache APISIX delivers a fully dynamic API gateway achieving 140,000 QPS on eight cores with sub-millisecond latency through NGINX's event-driven architecture and LuaJIT-compiled plugin execution. The 100+ open-source plugins cover authentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Keycloak, LDAP), observability (Prometheus, Datadog, SkyWalking, OpenTelemetry), traffic management (rate limiting, circuit breaking, canary releases, traffic splitting), and security (CORS, IP restriction, CSRF protection) — all hot-reloadable without process restarts via etcd-based real-time configuration synchronization. Multi-protocol support handles HTTP, gRPC, MQTT, TCP, UDP, and WebSocket traffic for both north-south API access and east-west service mesh communication. AI gateway capabilities proxy requests to 20+ LLM providers with semantic caching, token-aware rate limiting, provider failover routing, and content moderation. Custom plugins extend the gateway in Lua, Go, Java, Python, or WebAssembly. Radixtree route matching handles 100,000+ routes without performance degradation. Functions as a Kubernetes ingress controller with native service discovery for Consul, Nacos, and Eureka. Deploy via Docker or Helm charts with horizontal scaling through etcd cluster coordination. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Put one governed doorway in front of every service you run: Apache ShenYu is an API gateway that proxies, secures, and manages traffic for HTTP, Dubbo, gRPC, WebSocket, and MQTT backends from a single entry point. Every request flows through an ordered, hot-pluggable plugin chain, so you compose exactly the behavior each route needs instead of accepting a fixed gateway feature set. Selectors give you coarse, service-level routing and rules refine it down to individual methods, matched against headers, paths, and parameters. Authentication and edge security come from JWT, OAuth 2.0, request-signing, and WAF plugins, while rate limiting, circuit breaking, and load balancing protect fragile upstreams from traffic spikes. You reshape calls in flight with request, response, and parameter mapping, and convert protocols so a gRPC or Dubbo service answers ordinary HTTP clients. Newer releases add AI gateway plugins that proxy LLM calls with prompt processing, token limits, and sensitive-word filtering, plus an MCP server plugin for exposing tools to AI agents. The ShenYu Admin console on its own port manages plugins, selectors, rules, users, and permissions, then pushes changes live to every gateway replica over WebSocket, ZooKeeper, Nacos, etcd, or HTTP long polling. Metrics, tracing, and logging plugins stream operational data to Kafka or Elasticsearch, and client SDKs for Java, Go, Python, and .NET let services register themselves automatically. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

KrakenD processes over 18,000 requests per second on a single instance while consuming under 50MB of RAM at 1,000 concurrent connections, operating as a stateless API gateway that requires no database whatsoever. The Community Edition has earned over 2,600 GitHub stars by outperforming database-dependent alternatives like Kong and Tyk in independent benchmarks. Written entirely in Go, it uses declarative JSON or YAML configuration files that integrate directly into GitOps workflows for version-controlled infrastructure management. The gateway aggregates responses from multiple backend services into a single API call, transforms request and response payloads with field filtering, grouping, and mapping, and applies zero-trust security policies including JWT validation, OAuth 2.0, CORS, HSTS, clickjacking protection, and XSS prevention. Traffic management features include multi-layer rate limiting at both the router and proxy levels, circuit breakers for backend fault isolation, spike arrest policies, and concurrent call support that requests the same data from multiple backends in parallel for improved response times. Telemetry integrates with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, Datadog, Zipkin, and Jaeger for distributed tracing and metrics collection. The gateway extends through Go plugins, Lua scripting, Martian modifiers, and Google CEL expressions for custom request processing logic. AI workload routing supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other model endpoints with built-in fallback, retries, and load balancing. Deploy via Docker with the devopsfaith/krakend image as a single binary. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Unkey is the open-source platform that unifies API key management, rate limiting, deployment, and observability into a single control plane. The Go API service validates keys with sub-millisecond latency using regional Redis caches and MySQL 8.0 persistent storage, while ClickHouse captures every verification event for per-key and per-keyspace analytics with filterable time-series charts, request counters, and active key tracking. Keyspaces organize API keys by product, environment, or tier, each configurable with custom prefixes, byte lengths, IP whitelists, encrypted key recovery, and delete protection. Per-key settings include expiration dates, rate limit quotas with configurable windows, RBAC roles and permissions, owner identities linking multiple keys to a single user or organization, and key rotation with grace periods from immediate revocation through 24-hour overlap. The deployment pipeline connects GitHub repositories for automatic Docker container builds, generates preview environments per commit, promotes tested versions to production, and validates releases with OpenAPI diff detection flagging breaking changes before production. The edge gateway authenticates and rate-limits requests at the closest region before routing to the nearest API instance. Immutable audit logs track every key creation, verification, deletion, and configuration change with actor, timestamp, and event metadata. The CLI provides terminal access to key management, analytics queries, and deployment operations. On RepoCloud, deploy Unkey on a dedicated VPS with Docker, root SSH access, and complete control over your API infrastructure, all under the AGPL license.

Fusio turns the data and services you already run into a managed API that partners, apps, and AI agents can actually use. The workflow starts small: add a database connection and a table becomes a REST endpoint, or proxy a remote service and route traffic between internal microservices. Each operation pairs an HTTP path with an action and a schema, so requests are validated and an OpenAPI specification plus client SDKs for major languages come out without extra effort. Custom behavior lives in reusable actions, and an AI assistant can draft actions and schemas from a plain-language prompt. Native Model Context Protocol support then offers those actions to autonomous agents as tools. Third-party developers get a self-service portal with documentation, testing tools, and their own keys. Every endpoint can be protected with scopes and rate limits. Asynchronous work runs through events, webhooks, cronjobs, and triggers. When the API becomes a product, plans, quotas, and transactions handle billing, and analytics follow usage, performance, and errors. A marketplace installs ready-made actions and apps, and the generator and test panels speed up development. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Backed by the Linux Foundation with contributions from AWS, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Shell, Agentgateway is the first data plane built from the ground up for AI agent workloads — providing a unified Rust-based proxy that handles conventional HTTP and gRPC traffic alongside MCP tool servers, A2A agent communication, and LLM inference endpoints through a single deployment. The LLM gateway routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and other providers through an OpenAI-compatible unified API with per-tenant budget controls, spend tracking, prompt enrichment, load balancing across multiple model endpoints, and automatic failover when providers experience outages. The MCP gateway federates multiple tool servers behind one endpoint, supporting stdio, HTTP/SSE, and Streamable HTTP transports with built-in OAuth authentication compliant with the MCP auth specification, integrating Auth0 and Keycloak out of the box. OpenAPI integration exposes existing REST APIs as MCP-native tools without code changes, enabling legacy services to participate in agent workflows. Policy-based RBAC controls which agents access which tools, while OpenTelemetry integration provides distributed tracing across agent communication chains. Deploy as a standalone binary with flat YAML configuration or on Kubernetes using the built-in controller with Gateway API support for declarative infrastructure-as-code management. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Gately keeps your domain names current, forwards ports, terminates HTTPS, and blocks hostile traffic from one admin console, so a server or home network needs no pile of separate gateway tools. Dynamic DNS updates records at Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, DNSPod, Huawei Cloud, Route 53, OVHcloud, Gandi, Namecheap, DuckDNS, and other providers, finding the public address over IPv4 or IPv6 by URL, network interface, or command. Port forwarding relays TCP and UDP with port ranges, failover targets, connection limits, traffic statistics, and PROXY protocol, while SNI routing lets several services share port 443. Certificates are issued and renewed through ACME with DNS-01 wildcards or HTTP-01, then pushed to other hosts over SSH. Web services add per-domain reverse proxies, redirects, and static sites with HTTP/3, WebSocket, load balancing, health checks, rate limiting, caching, and sign-in through OIDC, GitHub, Google, or TOTP-protected shared users. A WAF running the OWASP Core Rule Set and fail2ban-style jails with trap ports and nftables bans guard the edge. Manage Docker containers and Compose projects with one-click upgrades and rollback, open SSH sessions with an SFTP file manager, run ping, traceroute, and speed tests, and receive alerts in Telegram, Discord, Slack, ntfy, or email. An audit log, config history with diff and rollback, encrypted backups, scoped API tokens, and Prometheus metrics round it out. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Where Traefik's built-in dashboard only shows what is running, Traefik Manager lets you change it: add routes, middlewares, and services from forms and wizards instead of editing YAML by hand. A first-run wizard connects to the Traefik API, creates a route for the manager itself, and sets the admin password. After that, the dashboard turns every route into a launchable app card with live health, and the Route Map draws each request from entry point through middlewares to backend. New routes use a slide-in form for HTTP, TCP, or UDP with several domains and backends, sticky sessions, and health checks. 30 middleware wizards handle authentication, rate limiting, headers, CORS, and redirects, and weighted, mirroring, or failover services can be built on their own. For day-to-day monitoring, the Certificates tab tracks expiry from acme.json, the Logs tab turns the access log into clickable analytics, the CrowdSec tab lists attacks and bans, and alerts reach Discord, Slack, ntfy, Telegram, and more. Changes to traefik.yml apply with a one-click restart, every edit is backed up locally and can be pushed to a git repository, and a lightweight agent brings remote Traefik servers into the same interface. Sign in with TOTP two-factor or OIDC single sign-on, in any of 14 languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

FreeLLMAPI collapses the chaos of 29 free LLM providers — Google AI, Cerebras, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, GitHub Models, Cohere, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA NIM, HuggingFace, SiliconFlow, Reka, Z.ai, and more — into a single /v1 endpoint that speaks both OpenAI and Anthropic protocols. The smart router selects the best available model for each request, automatically fails over to the next provider when rate limits hit, and tracks per-key token consumption so you never exceed a free-tier cap. Keys are stored with AES-256-GCM encryption and clients authenticate using a single unified bearer token, never exposing upstream provider credentials to downstream applications. The catalog tracks 251 model families across 358 provider/model endpoints with approximately 4 billion tokens per month of aggregate free-tier capacity, auto-refreshing from a signed manifest at freellmapi.co twice daily without requiring git pulls. Beyond chat completions, the proxy handles embedding, image generation, and audio/TTS endpoints, plus structured outputs with JSON schema forwarding, JSON healing, and format-ignore failover. An integrated MCP server at /mcp provides gateway introspection for coding agents, while the self-hosted OpenAPI reference at /v1/docs documents every route. Compatible with OpenAI SDKs, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Continue, Claude Code, and Hermes — just change base_url. Deploy via Docker, npm, or build from source. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

One endpoint, every model you run, and a government-grade paper trail for each request. OpenGateLLM sits in front of your AI infrastructure as the single door: applications call one OpenAI-compatible API, and the gateway decides which backend answers, a self-hosted vLLM cluster, an Ollama box in the corner, a Hugging Face TEI embeddings service, or a hosted provider when you allow one. You publish friendly model names as routers and attach real provider APIs behind them, then load-balance across those backends by shuffle or least-busy so a second GPU node starts earning its keep the moment you register it. Chat completions, embeddings, reranking, OCR, and audio transcription each get their standard endpoint, so existing OpenAI SDK code, LangChain, and LlamaIndex projects point at a new base URL and keep working. Governance is built in rather than bolted on: organizations, users, and roles control who may call which model, API keys authenticate every request, and rate limiting keeps one enthusiastic team from eating the whole cluster. Usage monitoring follows every inference, and carbon footprint estimates attach to models through their hosting zone and parameter counts. Retrieval-augmented generation against Elasticsearch or Qdrant plugs into the same surface. No chat history is stored, which is rather the point when the data is yours. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Backed by 56,000+ GitHub stars and over 240 million Docker pulls, LiteLLM delivers the open-source AI gateway trusted by Netflix, Lemonade, Rocket Money, and thousands of engineering teams to route every LLM request through one unified API. The Rust-core gateway adds sub-millisecond overhead per request with 8ms P95 latency at 1,000 RPS, 15x throughput improvement and 11x lower memory footprint compared to Python-only proxies. A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint connects to 100+ providers and 1,800+ models spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, Hugging Face, vLLM, Nvidia NIM, Ollama, and Mistral with day-zero support for new model releases. The Auto Router V2 classifies request complexity across four tiers using rule-based scoring, semantic keyword matching, and adaptive Thompson sampling to route each request to the most cost-effective model without API calls or training data. Virtual API keys enable multi-tenant governance with per-team, per-user, and per-project cost tracking, budget caps with automatic fallback rerouting, and role-based access control. Built-in guardrails provide PII masking, prompt injection detection, and model-graded evaluation before requests reach providers. The Agent Gateway extends routing from model calls to agent workflows with MCP server integration. Observability integrates with Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, OpenTelemetry, and MLflow for complete request tracing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

One OpenAI-compatible endpoint, 1,600+ models behind it: Portkey Gateway sits between your app and every major LLM provider, deciding in real time where each request should go. When a provider times out or returns errors, automatic retries with exponential backoff kick in, and fallback rules quietly move traffic to your second-choice model before users notice anything. Load balancing spreads calls across multiple API keys and providers by weight, conditional routing sends each request down a different path based on its content or metadata, and per-request timeouts cut off providers that hang. Guardrails inspect inputs and outputs as traffic passes through: block banned words, screen for sensitive content, and enforce the checks your compliance team asked for, with dozens of pre-built rules ready to attach. Text is only the start: the same API shape reaches vision models, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, image generation, and realtime websocket APIs, so multimodal features stop multiplying your integration work. Routing policies live in JSON configs you attach per request or per client, which means experiments, cost controls, and provider migrations ship as configuration changes, not redeploys. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Convoy is an enterprise-grade webhooks gateway that manages both incoming and outgoing webhook traffic to guarantee reliable event delivery without exposing internal microservices to the public internet. Organizations deploy the platform at the edge to ingest events from message brokers such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Google Cloud PubSub, or receive HTTP webhooks from third-party services directly. The gateway enforces delivery policies through configurable rate limiting per endpoint, circuit breaking during downstream outages, and automated retries using constant or exponential backoff with jitter. Developers can generate customer-facing webhook portals embedded via iframes, allowing end users to inspect delivery attempts, verify HMAC-SHA256 signatures, and manually replay failed events. Comprehensive security controls include static egress IP proxying to prevent server-side request forgery, automated rolling secret keys, and instant alerting via Slack or email when endpoints fail consecutively. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Elastic License 2.0 licensed.

With 13,800+ GitHub stars and active releases through 2026, Casdoor is the open-source identity platform that ships OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, CAS, LDAP, SCIM 2.0, WebAuthn passkeys, TOTP multi-factor authentication, and Face ID biometric login in a single Go binary with a React web console — covering every authentication protocol your organization will ever need. Social login connects 50+ identity providers including Google, GitHub, Microsoft Azure AD, Facebook, WeChat, DingTalk, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn without custom code. The AI-first architecture includes a Model Context Protocol gateway for AI agent authentication and Agent-to-Agent protocol support for securing LLM-powered workflows. Built-in Casbin integration delivers authorization primitives beyond basic RBAC: attribute-based access control, relationship-based access control, and custom policy models through a unified engine. The organization-scoped multi-tenancy model isolates users, applications, and identity providers per tenant with customizable login pages, branding, and SMTP configuration. SCIM 2.0 endpoints automate user provisioning from HR systems and Active Directory. Official SDKs for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and PHP accelerate application integration. The RESTful API exposes every resource for programmatic management. Comprehensive audit logs record authentication events and administrative actions. Deploy via Docker Compose with MySQL or PostgreSQL, the all-in-one SQLite Docker image for quick trials, or the official Kubernetes Helm chart for production clusters. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Securing a SaaS product, running B2B onboarding, or replacing Auth0 and Keycloak with a stack they own - teams needing more than basic auth reach for ZITADEL, an open-source identity and access management platform built in Go. Its multi-tenancy model is the differentiator: a strict Instance, Organization, Project hierarchy isolates data and scopes policy at each level, with identity brokering (pre-built templates for Google, GitHub, Microsoft, Apple, plus generic OIDC, OAuth, SAML, and LDAP), domain discovery that routes users to the right organization by email domain, and delegated management so customers administer their own users and roles. Authentication covers OpenID Connect (certified, including device authorization and token exchange), SAML 2.0 as both IdP and SP, SCIM, FIDO2 passkeys for phishing-resistant passwordless login, and MFA via OTP, email, SMS, and U2F; machine-to-machine flows support JWT profile, PATs, and client credentials. The architecture is event-sourced - every mutation is an immutable event, yielding a complete audit trail - with relational projections for queries and no external session store, so it scales horizontally. API-first with gRPC and REST, extensible via Actions webhooks, and the same codebase self-hosted (Docker Compose or Helm on PostgreSQL) as in the cloud.