API Gateways & Reverse Proxies

NGINX

nginx/nginx

Popular

Ubiquitous high-performance web server, reverse proxy and load balancer.

Kong

Kong/kong

Popular

Widely adopted API gateway on NGINX/OpenResty with a large plugin ecosystem and AI gateway features.

Envoy

envoyproxy/envoy

Popular

CNCF L7 proxy and data plane behind Istio and many gateways, configured dynamically via xDS.

Traefik

traefik/traefik

Cloud-native reverse proxy with automatic service discovery and Let's Encrypt certificates.

Caddy

caddyserver/caddy

Web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS and simple configuration.

Apache APISIX

apache/apisix

Dynamic, high-performance API gateway on NGINX/etcd with hot-reloaded plugins.

Tyk

TykTechnologies/tyk

Open-source API gateway written in Go with REST, GraphQL and gRPC support.

KrakenD

krakend/krakend-ce

Stateless, declarative API gateway focused on aggregation and very high throughput.

Amazon API Gateway

aws.amazon.com

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Managed AWS service for REST, HTTP and WebSocket APIs, commonly fronting Lambda.