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name: KrakenD
domain: krakend.io
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.56
---

# KrakenD

A high-performance open-source API gateway that enterprises use to manage, secure, and aggregate REST and AI API traffic.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Vercel’s AI SDK and AI Gateway handle API routing and management for AI workloads; KrakenD offers the same gateway capability for both traditional and AI APIs, targeting the same platform engineers and AI developers who would evaluate Vercel’s stack.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> High-performance open source API gateway

> the high-performance open source API gateway, free to use and trusted by thousands of teams

> KrakenD is a stateless, distributed, high-performance API Gateway that helps you effortlessly run microservices and AI workloads

**Edges:**

- discusses [[daily-dev]]
