---
name: Apache APISIX
domain: apisix.apache.org
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 1
---

# Apache APISIX

An open-source API gateway and AI gateway for traffic management of APIs, microservices, and LLM workloads.

**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 AI-gateway and API-gateway capability to the same frontend developers, platform engineers, and AI/agent developers that shortlist the anchor.

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

> High-performance traffic management for APIs, microservices, and LLM workloads

> Proxy, secure, and govern traffic to 20+ LLM providers — with the performance, plugins, and observability you already run for your APIs

**Edges:**

- discusses [[dev-to]]
- competitor [[api7-ai]]
- discusses [[daily-dev]]
- competitor [[theopenco-llmgateway-23-mintlify-app]]
- competitor [[llmgateway-io]]
