Gloo Gateway
A high-performance, Kubernetes-native API gateway for managing traffic to microservices at scale
- Vendor
- Solo.io
- Also known as
- gloo-gateway
What is Gloo Gateway?
A cloud-native API gateway built on Envoy that enables organizations to route, transform, and secure API traffic across multiple protocols. It provides enterprise security controls, developer portals for API discovery, and monetization capabilities for managing APIs as revenue-generating assets.
Gloo Gateway pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free open source forever. Enterprise support available.
Open Source
Free- Request routing by path, header, method, query parameter, host
- Kubernetes Gateway API support
- Traffic splitting and transformation
- Multi-protocol support: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket
- Active community with regular releases
Solo Enterprise
Contact sales- 24x7 Support SLA with guaranteed response times
- N-3 Long Term Support with security patches and bug fixes
- FIPS Compliant Images
- Private Slack Channel with white-glove support
What Gloo Gateway does
The capabilities that matter for api gateways, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
- Kubernetes-native
- ✓
- Rate limiting
- -
- Request/response transformation
- ✓
- OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
- ✓
- Mutual TLS
- ✓
- GraphQL gateway
- ✓
- gRPC support
- ✓
- Developer portal
- ✓
- Monetization
- ✓
- Plugin ecosystem
- Limited
- Observability
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (13)
Independently observed- Istio⇄•
- Backstage
- LLMs→•
- Kubernetes⇄•
- AWS EKS⇄
- AWS Lambda→
- AWS API Gateway⇄
- OpenAPI←
- OAuth 2.0•
- OIDC•
- JWT•
- MCP⇄•
- Kubernetes Gateway API⇄•
Security & compliance
Independently observed- FedRAMPin_progress
Gloo Gateway FAQ
Common questions about Gloo Gateway, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Gloo Gateway?
Gloo Gateway functions as a centralized controller for API traffic in microservices architectures, handling authentication, observability, routing, and security governance across Kubernetes-based systems. It is indexed under API Gateways.
How much does Gloo Gateway cost?
Gloo Gateway does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Open Source and Solo Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.solo.io/pricing
What platforms does Gloo Gateway support?
Gloo Gateway supports Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Gloo Gateway be self-hosted?
Yes. Gloo Gateway can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What does Gloo Gateway integrate with?
We have confirmed 5 integrations for Gloo Gateway, including MCP, Istio, Kubernetes Gateway API, Backstage and LLMs. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Gloo Gateway have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Gloo Gateway. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Gloo Gateway not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://trust.solo.io
Gloo Gateway alternatives
Other api gateways we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WSO2 API ManagerOpen-source API management platform for enterpriseslow · 24%
- Zuplomedium · 70%
- TraefikA cloud-native gateway and reverse proxy platform for routing microservices, containers, and APIs across hybrid environmentslow · 44%
- Apache APISIXOpen-source traffic management for APIs and AI servicesmedium · 54%
- TykA cloud-native API gateway for routing and securing REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC traffichigh · 76%
- Envoy GatewayControl and optimize your API and application traffic with an Envoy-based gatewaymedium · 54%
Compare Gloo Gateway
Side by side against other api gateways, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Gloo Gateway, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 45 | 0.12 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 29 | 0.05 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Mtls: Yes · Hosting: self · K8s native: Yes · Oauth oidc: Yes · Grpc support: Yes · Monetization: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 9 | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Certifications | FedRAMP | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
| Fedramp | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://www.solo.io/blog/compliance-zero-trust-istio-ambient-mesh | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
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