Effortless and smooth API Traffic management.
Apache APISIX provides rich traffic management features like Load Balancing, Dynamic Upstream, Canary Release, Circuit Breaking, Authentication, Observability, and more...
Building for large-scale, high value systems
Apache APISIX lets you build Cloud-Native Microservices API gateways, delivering the ultimate performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices.
Apache APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and hot-loading plugins
Why APISIX ?
Reduce time fighting bugs, focus on designing world-class systems
Apache APISIX is the first Open source API gateway, with a built-in low-code Dashboard offering a powerful and flexible interface for developers to use
Easy-to-use dashboard
The Apache APISIX Dashboard is designed to make it as easy as possible for users to operate Apache APISIX through a frontend interface. It’s opensource and ever evolving, feel free to contribute.
User flexible
The Apache APISIX dashboard is flexible to User demand, providing option to create custom modules through code matching your requirements, alongside the existing no-code toolchain.
Pluginised workflow
No need to reinvent the wheel again and again. Use inbuilt plugins to create high performance systems in tight deadlines. For something custom, there is option of building custom plugins.
Easy-to-use dashboard
The Apache APISIX Dashboard is designed to make it as easy as possible for users to operate Apache APISIX through a frontend interface. It’s opensource and ever evolving, feel free to contribute.
User flexible
The Apache APISIX dashboard is flexible to User demand, providing option to create custom modules through code matching your requirements, alongside the existing no-code toolchain.
Pluginised workflow
No need to reinvent the wheel again and again. Use inbuilt plugins to create high performance systems in tight deadlines. For something custom, there is option of building custom plugins.
Performance
Ultimate performance
Apache APISIX uses radixtree-route-matching and etcd under the hood to provide you the ability to create high speed synchronized systems. From routing to built-in plugins, all these are designed and implemented to be uber performant with the minimum latency possible.
Security
Shield against the malicious
Apache APISIX provides multiple security plugins for identity authentication and interface verification, putting stability and security first. For more information, check here.
Scalability and availability
Scales with your users
Apache APISIX provides the ability to write your own custom plugins, use custom Load Balancing Algorithms during the balancer phase for scaling and custom Routing algorithms for fine control on routing.
Fully dynamic
Save dev-time, design what matters
Apache APISIX provides Hot updates and Hot plugins, which continuosly update configurations without restarts, saving development time and stress. Health checks, circuit breakers and many more features keep the system balanced at all times.
Multi-platform and protocol
Create once, run anywhere
Platform agnostic, no vendor lock-in, Apache APISIX can run from bare-metal to kubernetes. It supports HTTP to gRPC transcoding, websockets, gRPC, Dubbo, MQTT proxy and multiple platforms including ARM64, don’t worry about the lock-in of the infra technology.
Among the best, and always improving
Apache APISIX is opensource and ever evolving. Here’s a general comparison of APISIX with other options in this API Gateway ecosystem.
| Feature | APISIX | Other API Gateways |
|---|---|---|
| Single-core CPU, QPS (enable limit-count and prometheus plugins) | 18000 | ~1700 |
| Latency | 0.2 ms | 2 ms |
| Dubbo, MQTT, Tengine and REST API to gRPC transcoding | ||
| Configuration rollback | ||
| Custom Load Balancing and routing | ||
| Plug-in hot loading | ||
| Dashboard | ||
| Support any Nginx variable as routing condition |
Learn from developers
Want to learn Apache APISIX usage, but don’t know where to start. Check out our docs.
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Be a part of building APISIX
Apache APISIX is opensource and ever-growing. Contributors are always welcome. Reach out to us on GitHub
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