This topic describes the differences between Cloud-native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Cloud-native API Gateway
Cloud-native API Gateway is a high-performance and secure unified gateway that integrates traffic gateways, microservice gateways, and security gateways into a unified architecture. With performance that is one to five times that of self-managed gateways, it is also highly reliable, built on years of technical expertise and proven during the Double 11 Shopping Festival. It provides capabilities such as service exposure, traffic control, application traffic ingress and integration, and full lifecycle management of APIs. Besides, it also provides multiple layers of security protection, such as mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) authentication, logon authentication, an integrated application firewall, and custom security plug-ins. It is highly extensible and provides a wide variety of plug-ins that support hot updates.
For more information, see Cloud-native API Gateway.
AI Gateway
AI Gateway is specifically designed for AI scenarios. It serves as a unified proxy for large language model APIs and MCP Servers and provides a wide range of integration and administration capabilities. These capabilities include unified access to multiple models, model switching, user authentication, token-based throttling, semantic caching, web search, content moderation, and observability.
For more information, see AI Gateway.