The best Spring Cloud Gateway alternatives

Higress suits teams managing AI APIs, MCP services, or cloud-native traffic that want a self-hosted gateway.

It suits teams building APIs for applications and backend services, especially those working with AWS services.

Tyk positions Core for startups and scale-ups, Professional for high-growth teams, and Enterprise for regulated industries and global enterprises.

Google Cloud Endpoints suits teams seeking API lifecycle management, access policies, and usage analytics in a hybrid deployment.

It suits teams that need consistent runtime policies across APIs, including enterprises.

It suits teams managing API release and operation that need environments, versioning, traffic controls, and monitoring.

It suits teams that need to compose API responses, manage traffic, and apply authentication controls in a self-hosted gateway.

Tyk may suit teams that need API lifecycle management across cloud, hybrid, or self-managed deployments.

It suits teams deploying Kubernetes Gateway API resources with NGINX as their traffic data plane.

APISIX suits teams that want to self-manage API, microservice, or LLM traffic on Linux, bare metal, or Kubernetes.

Emissary-ingress suits developers and operators in cloud-native organizations who manage services through Kubernetes.

Envoy Gateway suits teams managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based gateway.

Lura suits developers building an API gateway or proxy in their own Go application.

It suits teams operating Kubernetes-based APIs across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.

Ocelot suits developers building self-hosted microservice systems on ASP.NET Core.