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WSO2 API Platform

by WSO2

Open source platform for managing APIs, AI and MCP traffic, with gateways, a control plane, developer portal and monetization.

Starting priceOpen source under Apache 2.0; commercial subscription with pay-as-you-go and enterprise pricing
Pricing modelusage-based
DeploymentSelf-hosted, hybrid, SaaS
Free trialNo

About

Open source platform for managing APIs, AI and MCP traffic, with gateways, a control plane, developer portal and monetization.

WSO2 API Platform is a modular set of products for shipping, governing and monetizing APIs. It includes an API gateway, AI gateway, event gateway, control plane, developer portal and MCP hub, and can manage WSO2, Kong, AWS, Azure and Envoy gateways from one control plane.

Teams can design APIs with OpenAPI or AsyncAPI, apply governance policies, and publish with versioning. Every component except Monetization is open source under Apache 2.0, and a commercial subscription adds production support, updates and optional services across self-hosted, hybrid and cloud deployments.

Key features

API gateway for REST, GraphQL, gRPC and WebSockets; AI and LLM gateway with guardrails; MCP server generation from REST APIs; Multi-gateway control plane; OpenAPI and AsyncAPI lifecycle management; Developer portal and MCP hub; Monetization and analytics

Product details

Vendor

WSO2

Category

API Tools

Pricing model

usage-based

Starting price

Open source under Apache 2.0; commercial subscription with pay-as-you-go and enterprise pricing

Free trial

No

Deployment

Self-hosted, hybrid, SaaS

Pricing

Open source under Apache 2.0; commercial subscription with pay-as-you-go and enterprise pricingNo free trial

Pricing model: usage-based

Plans

  • Open source (unsupported, Apache 2.0); commercial subscription (pay-as-you-go and enterprise pricing)
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