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**Apache APISIX** is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway.
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APISIX API Gateway provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more.
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APISIX API Gateway provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more. You can use it to handle traditional north-south traffic, as well as east-west traffic between services. It can also be used as a [Kubernetes ingress controller](https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller).
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APISIX can serve as an **[AI Gateway](https://apisix.apache.org/ai-gateway/)** through its flexible plugin system, providing AI proxying, load balancing for LLMs, retries and fallbacks, token-based rate limiting, and robust security to ensure the efficiency and reliability of AI agents. APISIX also provides the [`mcp-bridge`](https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2025/04/21/host-mcp-server-with-api-gateway/) plugin to seamlessly convert stdio-based MCP servers to scalable HTTP SSE services.
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## Table of Contents
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You can use APISIX API Gateway to handle traditional north-south traffic, as well as east-west traffic between services. It can also be used as a [k8s ingress controller](https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller).
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-[Why APISIX](#why-apisix)
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-[AI Gateway](#ai-gateway)
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-[Get Started](#get-started)
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-[Features](#features)
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-[Benchmark](#benchmark)
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-[Community](#community)
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-[User Stories](#user-stories)
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-[Who Uses APISIX API Gateway?](#who-uses-apisix-api-gateway)
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-[Logos](#logos)
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-[Acknowledgments](#acknowledgments)
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-[License](#license)
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## Why APISIX
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APISIX is built on top of NGINX and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and hot-loading of plugins, which is especially suitable for API management under a microservice architecture.
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The technical architecture of Apache APISIX:
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## Community
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## AI Gateway
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-[Kindly Write a Review](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-apisix/reviews) for APISIX in G2.
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- Mailing List: Mail to dev-subscribe@apisix.apache.org, follow the reply to subscribe to the mailing list.
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- Slack Workspace - [invitation link](https://apisix.apache.org/slack) (Please open an [issue](https://apisix.apache.org/docs/general/submit-issue) if this link is expired), and then join the #apisix channel (Channels -> Browse channels -> search for "apisix").
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APISIX can serve as an **[AI Gateway](https://apisix.apache.org/ai-gateway/)** through its flexible plugin system, providing:
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-**AI proxying** to route traffic to different LLM providers through a unified interface.
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-**Load balancing, retries, and fallbacks** across multiple LLMs to ensure the efficiency and reliability of AI agents.
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-**Token-based rate limiting** to control cost and protect upstream models.
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-**Robust security** for authentication, authorization, and traffic control on AI workloads.
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APISIX also provides the [`mcp-bridge`](https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2025/04/21/host-mcp-server-with-api-gateway/) plugin to seamlessly convert stdio-based MCP servers to scalable HTTP SSE services.
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## Get Started
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Install and run APISIX with a single command using the quickstart script (requires [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/)):
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```shell
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curl -sL https://run.api7.ai/apisix/quickstart | sh
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This starts APISIX (listening on port `9080`) together with its etcd configuration store. Verify it is running:
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curl "http://127.0.0.1:9080" --head | grep Server
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Create your first route via the Admin API (port `9180`) to proxy requests to an upstream service:
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```shell
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curl -i "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1" -X PUT -d '
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"uri": "/get",
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Send a request through APISIX to confirm the route works:
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To learn more, follow the [Getting Started](https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/getting-started/) guide and the [installation documentation](https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/installation-guide/) for other deployment methods. To extend APISIX, see the [plugin development guide](docs/en/latest/plugin-develop.md), the [plugin concept](docs/en/latest/terminology/plugin.md), and the [REST Admin API](docs/en/latest/admin-api.md) reference.
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For more documents, please refer to the [Apache APISIX Documentation site](https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/getting-started/).
-[Azure Functions](docs/en/latest/plugins/azure-functions.md): Seamless integration with Azure Serverless Function as a dynamic upstream to proxy all requests for a particular URI to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
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-[Apache OpenWhisk](docs/en/latest/plugins/openwhisk.md): Seamless integration with Apache OpenWhisk as a dynamic upstream to proxy all requests for a particular URI to your own OpenWhisk cluster.
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1. Installation
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2. Getting started
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The getting started guide is a great way to learn the basics of APISIX. Just follow the steps in [Getting Started](https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/getting-started/).
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Apache APISIX provides [REST Admin API](docs/en/latest/admin-api.md) to dynamically control the Apache APISIX cluster.
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## Benchmark
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Using AWS's eight-core server, APISIX's QPS reaches 140,000 with a latency of only 0.2 ms.
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[APISIX also works perfectly in AWS graviton3 C7g.](https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2022/06/07/installation-performance-test-of-apigateway-apisix-on-aws-graviton3)
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- Mailing List: Mail to dev-subscribe@apisix.apache.org, follow the reply to subscribe to the mailing list.
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- Slack Workspace - [invitation link](https://apisix.apache.org/slack) (Please open an [issue](https://apisix.apache.org/docs/general/submit-issue) if this link is expired), and then join the #apisix channel (Channels -> Browse channels -> search for "apisix").
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-[European eFactory Platform: API Security Gateway – Using APISIX in the eFactory Platform](https://www.efactory-project.eu/post/api-security-gateway-using-apisix-in-the-efactory-platform)
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