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The Gateway Built for AI

AI agents need gateways that understand sessions, context, bidirectional communication, and agentic protocols natively — That's why we built agentgateway.

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Gemini

MCP Servers

Sales Agent

Gemini

MCP Servers

Sales Agent

How It Works

One Gateway.
Three Powerful Use Cases

Click on a use case to see how Agentgateway connects your AI infrastructure.

LLM Gateway FlowLLM Gateway Flow

LLM Gateway

Traffic management, security & observability for LLM providers

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MCP/A2A Gateway flowMCP/A2A Gateway flow

MCP/A2A Gateway

Secure, govern & observe MCP server and agent access

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Inference Gateway flowInference Gateway flow

Inference Gateway

Load balance & route to self-hosted models

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Insane Mode

Built in Rust to perform
and adapt as fast as AI itself

We all know this time is different. Which is why Agentgateway is purpose-built for AI. This means no technical debt. Zero-cost abstractions. No garbage collection. No locking limitations. Just high throughput and low latency at inference time.

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Memory

300×

Leaner. Meaner. Faster.

30MB

vs

9GB

Throughput

35x

Requests that actually scale.

165k QPS

vs

4.6k QPS

Latency

122x

Blink and you'll miss it.

0.09ms

vs

11ms

Velocity

Weekly

Ship features, not excuses.

MCP

A2A

OAuth

Open Source

Linux Foundation

No vendor lock-in. Ever.

Apache 2.0

Vendor Neutral

Memory

300×

Leaner. Meaner. Faster.

30MB

vs

9GB

Throughput

35x

Requests that actually scale.

165k QPS

vs

4.6k QPS

Latency

122x

Blink and you'll miss it.

0.09ms

vs

11ms

Velocity

Weekly

Ship features, not excuses.

MCP

A2A

OAuth

Open Source

CNCF

No vendor lock-in. Ever.

Apache 2.0

Vendor Neutral

Why is now different?

AI and Agents aren't APIs. It's time for first principles thinking.

Retrofitting legacy proxies for MCP and A2A creates security gaps, observability blind spots, and performance bottlenecks. See how things stack up against the novel and elevated problems AI presents.

Security & Identity

Problem: Agents act on behalf of users, invoke tools dynamically, and chain across services. API-level auth wasn't built for this.

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agentgateway

Purpose-built for agentic security

Native MCP OAuth 2.1, tool-level RBAC, secure token exchange, and cryptographic audit trails. Agent identity is a first-class citizen.

Security Docs
MCP Authorization
Agentic Zero Trust

Observability

Problem: Debugging agent behavior requires visibility into tool calls, token usage, session context, and multi-step reasoning chains—not just HTTP logs.

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Full-stack agent observability

OpenTelemetry with OpenInference. Full traces across agent tool LLM chains. Token, TTFT, and tool-level metrics out of the box.

Observability Docs
LLM Observability
OTel Stack Docs

Performance & Scale

Problem: Agents make dozens of chained calls. 50ms overhead× 20 tool calls = 1 full second of gateway tax. At scale, this breaks user experience.

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Rust-native performance

Sub-millisecond overhead at 10, 000 + QPS. 300× better memory efficiency. 35× throughput vs. interpreted alternatives.

Scale Benchmarks
MCP at Scale
AI in the Enterprise

Cost Optimization

Problem: Agentic workloads are expensive. Recursive agent loops, verbose completions, and uncapped token usage can spiral costs fast. Legacy gateways can't track, limit, or attribute LLM spend — agentgateway can.

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Built for protocol evolution

Token-based rate limiting per user, team, or API key. Fine-grained budget enforcement with denial-of-wallet protection. Per-model cost attribution and real-time consumption dashboards. Model failover to optimize for price, performance, and availability.

Spending Controls Docs
LLM Consumption Lab
Controlling AI Costs Webinar

Community vs Vendor

Problem: Agentic AI is too important to be locked into a single vendor. Open governance ensures interoperability and prevents platform tax.

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agentgateway

Truly open, vendor-neutral

Linux Foundation hosted. Backed by Microsoft, T-Mobile, Dell, CoreWeave, and Akamai. Community-driven roadmap with open governance.

AI Gateway Benchmarks
AI Agents in K8s
Enterprise AI

Seeing is Believing

Don't take our word for it. Prove it yourself.

We've made bold claims. Put them to the test. In 15 minutes, you'll see exactly why agentgateway exists.

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1

Download & Install

One binary, zero dependencies. Running in under 2 minutes.

curl -sL https://agentgateway.dev/install.sh|bash

2

Run Benchmarks

See 300× memory, 35× throughput, 122× latency yourself.

agentgateway benchmark --compare

3

Take the Challenge

Try these on other gateways. We'll wait.

MCP OAuth 2. 1

— 5 lines of config

A2A Routing

— Full context preserved

Streaming + Tools

— Interleaved execution

OpenAPI MCP

— Instant bridge

4

Explore Docs

Tutorials, examples, and API reference to go deeper.

agentgateway.dev/docs

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