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    🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway

    api
    cloud
    ai-gateway
    ai-native
    api-gateway
    cloud-native
    envoy
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    9.7K stars
    1.4K forks
    9.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 32 days ago, with 213 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #52 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 14, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a cloud-native AI native API gateway based on Istio and Envoy with extensible Wasm plugins for AI and microservice scenarios.
    • Delivers production-grade, streaming-capable, and memory-safe gateway functionality with seamless plugin upgrades and zero-downtime configuration changes.
    • Use for hosting MCP servers to unify AI tool calls with authentication, rate limiting, and observability in AI agent workflows.
    • Use for managing multi-model AI API traffic with unified protocol support, load balancing, token rate limiting, and caching for LLM providers.
    • Use for Kubernetes ingress or microservice gateway with deep integration of service registries and security features like WAF and multiple auth strategies.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    AI Native API Gateway

    Higress is a cloud-native API gateway based on Istio and Envoy, which can be extended with Wasm plugins written in Go/Rust/JS. It provides dozens of ready-to-use general-purpose plugins and an out-of-the-box console (try the demo here).

    Higress's AI gateway capabilities support all mainstream model providers both domestic and international. It also supports hosting MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers through its plugin mechanism, enabling AI Agents to easily call various tools and services. With the openapi-to-mcp tool, you can quickly convert OpenAPI specifications into remote MCP servers for hosting. Higress provides unified management for both LLM API and MCP API.

    Excerpt from the higress-group/higress README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 28: +11Aug 29: +9Aug 30: +5Aug 31: +10Sep 1: +13Sep 2: +8Sep 3: +8Sep 4: +6Sep 8: +6Sep 9: +14Sep 10: +12Sep 11: +10Oct 11: +4

    +672 stars over 90 days across 21 snapshot days; best day +14 on Sep 9.

    Forks

    1.4K+163

    Open issues

    1.5K+525

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