What is Zuplo?
Zuplo is a managed gateway platform that secures, governs, and observes API traffic, LLM calls, and MCP servers through a single programmable policy engine. It supports multi-cloud deployment with usage-based pricing starting from a free tier.
Zuplo 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 tier for ≤100K requests/month. Builder at $25/month with metered usage. Enterprise from $1,000/month with custom pricing available.
Starter
FreeIndividuals evaluating Zuplo or shipping a side project
- requests
- 100K/month
- analytics_retention
- 1 day
- 100K requests/month
- 1 day of analytics, live logs & traces
- Up to 2 developer seats
- GitOps with GitHub
- MCP Gateway
- AI Gateway
- Developer Portal
Builder
Solo entrepreneurs & hobbyists going live
- environments
- 10
- custom_domains
- 2
- consumers_and_api_keys
- 1000
- Custom domains
- 10 custom environments
- 1000 API consumers & keys
- 7 days analytics retention
- 1 day log & trace history
- 2 developer seats included
- MCP Gateway
- AI Gateway
- Developer Portal
- GitHub integration
Enterprise
Contact salesTeams, scaling APIs & mission-critical workloads
- environments
- None
- custom_domains
- None
- Custom volume discounts available
- SSO + RBAC
- Audit logs
- 99.5% SLA baseline (up to 99.999%)
- Unlimited custom domains
- Unlimited developer seats
- GitOps with GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps
- 30 day analytics retention (custom available)
- Unlimited log & trace history
- MCP Gateway (unlimited MCP users/servers)
- AI Gateway (custom teams)
- Developer Portal
What Zuplo 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
- Limited
- Observability
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (11)
Independently observed- GitHub
- BitBucket
- GitLab
- Azure DevOps
- Cloudflare
- Akamai
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
Zuplo alternatives
Other api gateways we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WSO2 API ManagerThe Open Platform to Control APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 50%
- 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%
- Kong GatewayThe AI Connectivity Companylow · 30%
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 Zuplo, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 30.00 | 2985.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 12.00 | 1152.3 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 40 | 22.00 | 880.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 45 | 12.00 | 540.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 31 | 16.00 | 496.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
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 | {"mtls":true,"hosting":"both","k8s_native":true,"oauth_oidc":true,"grpc_support":false,"monetization":true,"observability":true,"rate_limiting":true,"graphql_gateway":true,"developer_portal":true,"plugin_ecosystem":"limited","request_transformation":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 11 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | lowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48% |