Apache APISIX: Open-Source API Gateway & Operating Options - API7.ai

What is Apache APISIX?

Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, and high-performance API Gateway.

Originally created by API7.ai, APISIX was open-sourced and donated to Apache Software Foundation in 2019, making the vision of serving half of the world's API requests possible.

Ever since then, API7.ai has always been investing the best talents and resources to support Apache APISIX and its community, which is joined by thousands of contributors and users all over the world.

Choose an operating model

Run Apache APISIX the way your team needs

Apache APISIX remains independent and open source. API7 provides optional commercial paths when your production requirements extend beyond self-operation.

Open source

Self-Operate Apache APISIX

Deploy and operate the Apache Software Foundation project on your own infrastructure with full control over configuration, upgrades, and operations.

Best for: Teams with the platform capacity to own the complete gateway lifecycle.

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Commercial support

Get Help for an Existing Deployment

Discuss deployment planning, migration, architecture review, optimization, integration, security fixes, and training with API7.

Best for: Teams keeping APISIX while evaluating expert assistance for production work.

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Enterprise platform

Evaluate API7 Enterprise

Compare self-operated APISIX with an enterprise operating layer for centralized governance, lifecycle management, compliance, and support.

Best for: Organizations coordinating gateways across teams, environments, or regulated workloads.

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Rich Features

Load balancing, dynamic upstream, authentication and authorization, canary release, rate limiting, service observability, and security

Cloud Native

Runs from bare-metal machines to Kubernetes providing a vendor-neutral, multi-platform solution

Flexible Configuration

Supports fine-grained routing and plugin writing with your familiar programming languages

Fully Dynamic

Continuously updates its configurations and plugins without restarting your services

Ops Friendly

Integrates with mainstream DevOps platforms and provides an easy-to-use and intuitive APISIX Dashboard

Supportive Community

The most active API Gateway open-source project on GitHub putting users first

Case Studies

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Zoom integrates APISIX Ingress Controller in its continuous delivery pipeline to realize the overall management of project, application, environment and infrastructure management.