Traefik Proxy is a dynamic reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers services from Docker, Kubernetes, and other providers, with HTTPS, routing, and observability built in.
64.7k stars6.2k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
6 self-hosted Cloudflare API Gateway alternatives
Managed API security and observability service that discovers public APIs, validates OpenAPI schemas, enforces authentication and business-logic controls, blocks OWASP/API attacks and data exfiltration, and provides analytics and alerts on Cloudflare's edge network.
Alternatives to Cloudflare API Gateway
Kong Gateway is a high-performance, cloud-native API gateway for routing, securing, and observing API traffic, with an extensible plugin system and Kubernetes support.
44.1k stars5.2k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Tyk Gateway is an open source, cloud-native API gateway for securing, managing, and scaling REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP APIs with auth, rate limits, and policies.
10.8k stars1.2k forkslast commit Actively maintained
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Lura is a stateless, high-performance API gateway framework for building reverse proxies that aggregate, transform, and secure backend APIs via middleware and plugins.
6.8k stars583 forkslast commit Actively maintained
Open-source API gateway for securing, aggregating, and transforming microservice APIs with a stateless, high-throughput Go-based runtime and declarative configuration.
2.7k stars498 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
High-performance web application firewall and API security gateway with semantic detection, rule management, and reverse-proxy deployment for protecting websites and APIs.
1.7k stars170 forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit Actively maintained
What replacing Cloudflare API Gateway actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 6 of 6 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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