What is Gloo Gateway?
Enterprise-grade API gateway delivering high performance with flexibility for self-managed deployment. Handles 400k+ requests/sec, 7+ years in production, built on open-source Envoy with CNCF governance.
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; Enterprise features available (pricing not disclosed)
Open Source
Free100% open source under Apache 2.0, forever free
- Traffic routing and splitting
- 100% Gateway API compliant
Enterprise
Contact salesEnterprise features and support
- 24x7 Support SLA
- N-3 Long Term Support
- FIPS Compliant Images
- Private Slack Channel
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
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Kubernetes-native
- ✓
- Rate limiting
- -
- Request/response transformation
- ✓
- OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
- -
- Mutual TLS
- -
- GraphQL gateway
- -
- gRPC support
- -
- Developer portal
- -
- Monetization
- -
- Plugin ecosystem
- -
- Observability
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Gloo Gateway alternatives
Other api gateways we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WSO2 API ManagerThe Open Platform to Control APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 50%
- ZuploThe Unified Gateway for APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 60%
- IBM API ConnectSeamlessly develop, manage, secure and socialize all your API types, wherever they live.low · 2%
- Traefiklow · 22%
- Tyklow · 44%
- EmissaryA Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxylow · 24%
The Vioscale 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 | 22.00 | 990.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 12.00 | 549.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 12.00 | 300.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 30.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
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.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","k8s_native":true,"request_transformation":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |