Gravitee
gravitee.ioBuild Difficulty: 5/5
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Unified API, event, agent management platform
How to Replace GraviteeOverview
Features
41 features across 15 categories
AI(6)
Agent-to-Agent communication proxy for AI systems
Catalog management for AI agents, MCPs, and LLMs
Consolidate, secure, and manage every AI agent to eliminate agent sprawl
Proxy for managing and securing Large Language Model interactions
Model Context Protocol proxy for managing AI agent integrations
Tool server for Model Context Protocol to enable AI agent capabilities
Billing(1)
Alternative billing model based on consumption rather than per gateway
Core Management(3)
Event-native, streaming-first API gateway for managing event streams
Open source Java-based API gateway for event-native and traditional APIs with pre-built policies
Manage every API across gateways and brokers in one platform
Deployment(2)
Deploy via cloud, on-premises, hybrid, or within Kubernetes
Option to manage and host your control plane with customer approval
DevOps(3)
Streamline CI/CD pipelines with API lifecycle automation for versioning, validation, and publishing from OpenAPI specs
Define API policies, gateways, and configurations as code and deploy through Git-based workflows
Kubernetes-native deployment models to scale and orchestrate API infrastructure
Developer Tools(2)
Drag-and-drop API designer to create new APIs with automatic documentation and spec generation
Consolidate APIs into a single portal for customers to find APIs, subscribe, view documentation, and manage subscriptions
Event Management(1)
Expose Kafka streams natively with security and governance like traditional APIs
Governance(1)
Manage APIs across every broker and gateway including AWS, Azure, Apigee, IBM, Confluent, and Solace
Integrations(2)
Advanced integrations available for enterprise plans
Connect to third-party brokers like Kafka and Solace
Monetization(1)
Monetize event streams with advanced security, governance, usage quotas, and self-serve plan management
Monitoring & Analytics(3)
In-depth API activity logging and analytics with instant alerts to development teams
Detailed analytics on traffic, API activities, requests, performance, availability with instant alerts
Track response time, uptime, error rates, CPU and heap usage, and availability over time
Policies(5)
Pre-built authentication policies for securing API access
Apply policies at the message level for streaming data such as Kafka
Set rate limits and usage quotas across subscription tiers and plans
Apply policies at the request and response levels
Policy for traffic shaping to control API traffic patterns
Protocol Support(4)
Expose event streams and APIs via REST, SOAP, WebSocket, and HTTP protocols
Expose event broker resources over non-native protocols, such as exposing Kafka as WebSocket
Expose event and message broker resources as client-side webhook subscriptions
Expose event and message broker resources as WebSockets
Reliability(1)
Supports failover on clusters with disaster recovery capabilities
Security(6)
AuthZen-based policy decision point for centralized authorization
Enterprise feature for masking sensitive data in logs
Native MCP authentication and fine-grained authorization for agent tool access
Multi-factor authentication, biometric authentication, token-based auth, identity and access management, and registration requirements
Resource server for Model Context Protocol authentication and authorization
Fine-grained authorization using OpenFGA for AI agent access control
Pricing
Planet
- ✓Unlimited Users
- ✓Unlimited APIs under Management
- ✓1 Production Gateway
- ✓Gold Support
Galaxy
- ✓Unlimited Users
- ✓Unlimited APIs under Management
- ✓2 Production Gateways
- ✓Enterprise plugins available
- ✓Limited event broker support
- ✓Hybrid or managed deployment
- ✓Consumption Model available
- ✓Gold Support
Universe
- ✓Unlimited Users
- ✓Unlimited APIs under Management
- ✓4+ Production Gateways
- ✓Unlimited Enterprise Functionality
- ✓All supported event brokers
- ✓Identity and Access Management
- ✓Consumption Model available
- ✓Technical Account Manager
- ✓24/7 support
Comet
- ✓1 Production Gateway
- ✓1 third-party federated broker
- ✓Developer portal
- ✓Failover and DR
- ✓Gold support
Meteor
- ✓2 Production Gateways
- ✓2 third-party federated brokers
- ✓Developer portal
- ✓Failover and DR
- ✓Gold support
- ✓Platinum available
Asteroid
- ✓4 Production Gateways
- ✓4 third-party federated brokers
- ✓Developer portal
- ✓Failover and DR
- ✓Platinum support
- ✓Protocol mediation
- ✓Customer hosted control plane available
Agent Management Package
- ✓One Control Point to Secure & Govern AI Agents, MCP, and LLMs
- ✓LLM Proxy
- ✓MCP Proxy
- ✓A2A Proxy
- ✓MCP Tool Server
- ✓Agent Catalog
- ✓Enterprise Auth
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Integrations
10 known integrations