Alternatives to Zuul

Higress

Higress suits teams that need an API gateway for AI services, MCP, or cloud-native traffic.

Endpoints suits teams managing APIs through Google Cloud that need access controls, monitoring, analytics, or quotas.

It suits DevOps and Platform Engineering teams managing APIs and microservices, especially those using Kubernetes and declarative or GitOps workflows.

Tyk positions Core for startups and scale-ups, Professional for high-growth teams, and Enterprise for regulated industries and global enterprises.

Envoy Gateway

It suits teams that need a self-hosted gateway for standalone or Kubernetes-based Envoy Proxy deployments.

Lura suits developers building an API gateway or proxy inside their own Go application.

KrakenD API Gateway

It suits teams that need a self-hosted gateway to connect APIs, control traffic, and compose service responses.

It suits teams that need to manage API lifecycle stages, apply traffic limits, and monitor API activity.

Emissary-ingress is for developers and operators in cloud-native organizations whose developers have operational responsibility for their services.

Apache APISIX

APISIX suits teams that need a self-managed gateway for APIs, microservices or LLM workloads.

NGINX Gateway Fabric

NGINX Gateway Fabric suits teams operating Kubernetes that need NGINX-based gateway, proxy, or load-balancing traffic handling.

Core is described for startups and businesses launching an API platform; Professional is for high-growth teams.

It suits developers building self-hosted ASP.NET Core gateways for microservices with routing, authentication, discovery, and traffic-management needs.

It suits teams deploying Kubernetes-based API gateways in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.