---
name: kgateway
domain: kgateway.dev
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.74
---

# kgateway

An open-source Kubernetes gateway control plane built on Envoy Proxy for ingress, API gateway, and AI traffic management.

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

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same Envoy-based Kubernetes ingress/gateway capability to the same platform engineers evaluating the anchor Vercel for edge traffic management.

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

> An Advanced Ingress Controller with the Kubernetes Gateway API

> A Next-Generation API Gateway

> Built on Envoy Proxy and the Kubernetes Gateway API

**Edges:**

- competitor [[solo-io]]
