Open source Apigee alternatives

Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 0 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Apigee alternative; 28 more are in the category where Apigee is a typical product.

Open source projects in the same category: API Gateways & Clients

Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Apigee; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.

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caddyserver · API Gateways & Clients

STARS78.6K
FORKS5.2K
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CONTRIBUTORS399
VERSIONv2.9.1
UPDATEDyesterday
GoWeb ServerHTTPSReverse ProxyApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can easily configure your server using Caddyfile or JSON configuration.
  • With Let Encrypt and ZeroSSL integration, you can provide automatic HTTPS management for your sites.
  • You can run a server that supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols by default.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Caddy 2

    “Thank you for your work on Caddy! After a false start during the beta (mainly because of the missing documentation) I upgraded my personal websites from v1 to v2 RC1, and since then I have been a fan of the new version. Caddy 2 makes somewhat complex configuration more…”

  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Show HN: Caddy 2

    “Thank you so much for investing the time to do it, this was the only thing holding me back from using Caddy for everything over the last ~2 years. I know it's a painful process for Go packages in particular, but it's definitely worth it to be more easily installable for diehard…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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Kong · API Gateways & Clients

STARS44.3K
FORKS5.2K
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CONTRIBUTORS448
VERSION3.9.3
UPDATED12 days ago
LuaAPI GatewayPluginApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can route API traffic and perform load balancing and health checks.
  • You can provide access security for API with different authentication methods.
  • You can manage AI traffic by routing between multiple LLM providers.
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveGitHub Issue

    PostgreSQL support

    “We should support other datastores than Cassandra which is primarily aimed at users who want to benefit from its distribution capabilities. Support for PostgreSQL seems the best candidate for the second datastore, due to its popularity, availability on Amazon RDS and…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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httpie · API Gateways & Clients

STARS38.7K
FORKS4.0K
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CONTRIBUTORS173
VERSION3.2.4
UPDATED1 yr ago
PythonHTTP ClientCLIBSD / ISC

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • Using a simple and natural syntax, you can send HTTP requests to web services.
  • You can view JSON responses with terminal output coloured and formatted.
  • You can create and print requests in offline mode without sending them.
Heads up
  • • Last update over 1 year ago
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

    “One time I tried to install HTTPie from ubuntu 16.04 apt repository I got an old version that was not compatible with httpie-jwt-auth so I had to install it using pip. 1. pip3 install httpie. 2. python3 -m pip install httpie. 3. sudo pip install httpie. Finally, it was working.…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

    “From > If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for. Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance. All curl options are exposed with syntax sugar and…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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NginxProxyManager · API Gateways & Clients

STARS34.6K
FORKS4.0K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSION—
UPDATED10 days ago
JavaScriptNode.jsNginxReverse ProxyMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can create routing fields, redirects, stream and 404 hosts without the need for Nginx knowledge.
  • You can get free SSL certificates via Let Encrypt or upload your own custom certificates to the system.
  • With access lists and basic HTTP authentication, you can manage the security of the services you host.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (863)
  • • No published release
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    SSL certificate error

    “**Checklist** - Have you pulled and found the error with `jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest` docker image? - Yes - Are you sure you're not using someone else's docker image? - Yes - Have you searched for similar issues (both open and closed)? - Yes **Describe the bug** i have a…”

  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    2.10.0 unable to start on clean install

    “**Checklist** - Have you pulled and found the error with `jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest` docker image? - Yes ~/ No~ - Are you sure you're not using someone else's docker image? - Yes ~/ No~ - Have you searched for similar issues (both open and closed)? - Yes ~/ No~ **Describe…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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nginx · API Gateways & Clients

STARS32.0K
FORKS8.4K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS125
VERSIONrelease-1.9.9
UPDATEDyesterday
web-serverReverse Proxyload-balancersslBSD / ISC

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can manage incoming network traffic with reverse proxy server and load stabilizer configurations.
  • You can edit server performance using content caching and speed limitation features.
  • You can activate TLS encryption by installing SSL certificates.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

    “The subtle thing here is that in the US and the UK typically things created "in the course of employment" (as defined in UK) would typically be owned by the employer. This is enforced either through a contract (e.g., in US), or both national law by default and the contract…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

    “An inserted translation of the literal meaning might have been allowed, since the rules also say (ISTR) that this is an English-language website. Colloquialise that from the formal exact "Til we meet again" to be a bit more informal (because that can still be read as "...in…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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envoyproxy · API Gateways & Clients

STARS29.2K
FORKS5.7K
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CONTRIBUTORS1.6K
VERSIONv1.9.1
UPDATEDtoday
proxyservice-meshgrpcload-balancerApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • Using modern C++, you can develop custom filters that handle network traffic.
  • You can manage the interservice communication layer through the universal data plane API.
  • With automatic retry, circuit breaker and counter-value (outlier) detection, you balance durable load between services.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (1,921)

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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apache · API Gateways & Clients

STARS17.3K
FORKS3.0K
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CONTRIBUTORS504
VERSIONv0.9
UPDATEDyesterday
LuaAPI GatewayCloud NativeApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can configure it as an input controller on Kubernetes and manage traffic flow.
  • Among AI models, you can perform load balancing, error management, and token-based speed limitation.
  • You can control north-south and east-west traffic between microservices with dynamic routing.
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    How is Apache APISIX Fast?

    “"High speed," "minimum latency," and "ultimate performance" are often used to characterize Apache APISIX. "Highly misleading graphs" now as well. Perhaps it is best to charitably assume an oversight rather than a deliberate misrepresentation for PR reasons - which obviously…”

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openresty · API Gateways & Clients

STARS14.1K
FORKS1.6K
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CONTRIBUTORS42
VERSIONv1.9.7.5
UPDATED3 days ago
nginxluaAPI GatewaywafBSD-2-Clause

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You expand your web server infrastructure with third-party modules added on the standard Nginx kernel.
  • By parsing the resolv.conf file, you customize the DNS resolver configuration.
  • You set up a web application server environment where modules within the package work together.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    OpenResty – A fast web app server by extending Nginx

    “I have been using OpenResty for years now. The ability to run Lua scripts from within is great. Story time: Some time ago we developed a CMS for a large art/production company. One of the requirements was that everything must be access controlled including all assets (eg.…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    OpenResty – A fast web app server by extending Nginx

    “I've really enjoyed poking at OpenResty and I found Lapis to be the most mature framework working with it. However, I find the use of Moonscript for its examples sites and the obvious preference for it in the documentation to be quite maddening. Using moonc to compile things…”

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higress-group · API Gateways & Clients

STARS9.7K
FORKS1.4K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv2.2.4
UPDATEDyesterday
GoAPI GatewayEnvoyWasmApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can host local or remote Model Context Protocol servers.
  • You can expand the system by writing Wasm plugins in Go, Rust or JS languages.
  • You can manage all native and foreign mainstream model providers through the gateway.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (1,459)
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maximhq · API Gateways & Clients

STARS9.2K
FORKS1.5K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONcli/v1.0.0
UPDATEDtoday
GoAI GatewayMCPLoad BalancingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • With a single OpenAI compatible API, you connect to twenty different AI providers.
  • With automatic fault tolerance and load balancing features, you prevent system outages.
  • Using the semantic caching mechanism, you reduce costs and response time.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (1,399)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Bifrost: A peer-to-peer communications engine with pluggable transports

    “Hi, author here. Thanks for checking out Bifrost. The short pitch is: any protocol over any transport with seamless cross-platform (browser <-> native) communication. Building internet applications often involves writing code that is tightly integrated with the choice of…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Bifrost: A peer-to-peer communications engine with pluggable transports

    “Yes, that is not very clear. It seems to me (corrections welcome) that it could sorta work as a application oriented VPN where a VPN cannot be installed. Something like: local_app_1--->Bifrost Client1-->Bifrost Daemon0-->OS0-->//network//->> same in reversed order…”

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apache · API Gateways & Clients

STARS8.9K
FORKS3.1K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv2.7.1
UPDATEDtoday
JavaAPI GatewayMicroservicesProxyApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You serve as a service proxy between Apache Dubbo, Spring Cloud, gRPC and WebSocket protocols.
  • You define security rules with the Sign, OAuth 2.0, JWT and WAF add-ons.
  • You provide API governance with request, response, parameter matching, Hystrix and RateLimiter components.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Apache Shenyu Project Graduates

    “What does “ShenYu is to promote the traditional virtues of our Chinese civilisation” mean to Apache?”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Who used Apache ShenYu?

    “First of all, my sincere thanks to everyone who continues to care and use Apache ShenYu.We will continue to invest in making the Apache ShenYu better and the Apache ShenYu community more prosperous.In order to better listen to the community and attract more people to use and…”

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tbphp · API Gateways & Clients

STARS7.2K
FORKS796
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv2.0.0-rc.36
UPDATED2 days ago
GoAI GatewayAPI ManagementSelf-HostedMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You connect to the multiple AI models and providers through a single gateway.
  • You configure error management with traffic planning for API keys and subscription accounts.
  • You follow request logs and usage data from a central interface.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: GPT-Load – A self-hosted AI gateway with reversible redaction

    “I am the author of GPT-Load. GPT-Load is a self-hosted AI gateway that centrally manages API keys and supported subscription accounts. It also provides credential scheduling, failover, access control, request logging, and usage tracking. In addition to some commonly used AI…”

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luraproject · API Gateways & Clients

STARS6.8K
FORKS584
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS52
VERSIONv2.9.1
UPDATEDyesterday
API Gatewaygohigh-performancerate-limitingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • By combining data from multiple backend services in a single endpoint, you reduce client-side complexity
  • You add OAuth authorization or layers of security using intermediate software and plugins
  • In addition to the HTTP protocol, you build different types of API Gateway and proxy solutions such as RPC
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Add Support for Kubernetes ingress controller

    “Please, add support for Kubernetes Ingress Controller. It will be very Helpfull for Kubernetes intégration”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    fatal error: concurrent map writes when multiple backends

    “```krakend[4734]: fatal error: concurrent map writes krakend[4734]: goroutine 1053 [running]: krakend[4734]: runtime.throw(0xc8a990, 0x15) krakend[4734]: /var/opt/go/1.10/src/runtime/panic.go:619 +0x81 fp=0xc42061d920 sp=0xc42061d900 pc=0x42c921 krakend[4734]:…”

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aws · API Gateways & Clients

STARS6.7K
FORKS1.3K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.166.2
UPDATEDtoday
PythonServerlessAWS SAMCLIApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • On Docker containers, you test Lambda functions and API Gateway locally.
  • You synchronize changes to the cloud environment and distribute SAM and CloudFormation templates.
  • You follow CloudWatch logs and X-Ray views from end to end.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (553)
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Feature Request: API Gateway Authorizer support in SAM Local

    “I'm using the tool to spin up locally an API gateway and run my lambda functions. However, I don't know how to configure an authorizer in `template.yml` In my `template.yml` file, I have the following configuration: ``` JwtAuthorizerFunction: Type: AWS::Serverless::Function…”

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oomol-lab · API Gateways & Clients

STARS6.1K
FORKS581
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.8.0
UPDATEDtoday
TypeScriptAuth GatewayAI AgentsOAuthApache-2.0

Alternative to (project's own claim): Pipedream, Composio

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • GitHub connects to 1,000 more providers such as Gmail and Notion, and 10,000 more ready-made actions.
  • Using the SDK, CLI, MCP and HTTP protocols, you provide AI agents with vehicle access.
  • With uptime audits, you manage action permit policies and audit journals.
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kgateway-dev · API Gateways & Clients

STARS5.7K
FORKS829
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv2.4.5
UPDATEDtoday
GoKubernetesAPI GatewayEnvoyApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • In the Kubernetes environment, you open API to the outside world and implement authentication, authorization, and rate-limiting policies.
  • By routing between microservices, serverless (serverless) functions, or older systems, you perform grantral application migration.
  • You define API in complex environments with multiple tenants with concepts such as route delegation and compound policies.
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looplj · API Gateways & Clients

STARS5.4K
FORKS751
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.0.0-beta11
UPDATEDyesterday
GoAI GatewayLLM ProxyLoad BalancingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You switch between different AI models without changing the current SDK.
  • You distribute requests with intelligent load balancing and backup mechanisms.
  • At the corporate level, you perform access control and cost tracking.
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CodeGenieApp · API Gateways & Clients

STARS5.3K
FORKS671
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv5.0.0
UPDATED6 mo ago
JavaScriptAWS LambdaExpressServerlessApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can move existing Node.js web applications and REST API AWS Lambda infrastructure.
  • Before request forwarding, you can configure asynchronous preparation tasks such as database connection.
  • Using the Lambda handler wrapper, you can run your applications on Azure Function.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    ERROR: aws-serverless-express connection error with every requests

    “"aws-serverless-express": "3.2.0", [email protected] It working fine in yesterday. CloudWatch log a0c895f5-fe7c-11e8-b3ae-4f8962debec2 ERROR: aws-serverless-express connection error 1544667186190,/aws/lambda/function,2018-12-13T02:13:06.190Z a0c895f5-fe7c-11e8-b3ae-4f8962debec2…”

  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Async handler doesn't work on node 8.10

    “I have reduced my project to that snippet which generates an error using the new 8.10: ```js import awsServerlessExpress from 'aws-serverless-express' import express from 'express' export default async (event, context, callback) => { const app = express() app.get('/',…”

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spring-cloud · API Gateways & Clients

STARS4.9K
FORKS3.5K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv5.0.3
UPDATED4 days ago
JavaAPI GatewaySpring BootRoutingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You allow HTTP requests to match by path, method, title, or server name.
  • You can replace incoming HTTP requests and outgoing HTTP responses with filters such as title adding, parameter switching, or path editing.
  • With Spring Cloud DiscoveryClient support, you can configure routes and implement API or configuration-oriented management.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (573)
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Cannot route to https URI: unexpected message type

    “Using GW M8 the following exception occurs when the GW tries to route to a URI over https. ``` io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: unexpected message type: DefaultHttpRequest at…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Support running the gateway with other reactive containers besides netty

    “I am trying to use tomcat instead netty. To achive this i have excluded netty from dependencies and included tomcat, so my build.gradle dependecies: ``` dependencies { compile (group: 'org.springframework.cloud', name: 'spring-cloud-starter-gateway', version: '2.0.0.M4') {…”

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IBM · API Gateways & Clients

STARS4.7K
FORKS953
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.0.11
UPDATEDtoday
PythonMCP ProxyAPI GatewayOpenTelemetryApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can combine services in different protocols with the federation in a single endpoint.
  • With open telemetry monitoring tools, you can provide infrastructure observability.
  • You can configure API gateway features such as Rate limiting and authentication.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (984)