Topics / #api-management

API management projects on GitHub

Gateways and platforms for managing, securing, and documenting APIs.

As of , the most-starred API management projects on GitHub are kong (44.3K stars), istio (38.4K stars) and yapi (27.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 API management repositories with 138.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was apisix, with +7 stars in a day.

5Projects
138.5KStars in total
+12Stars in a day
Browse in the catalog →github.com/topics/api-management ↗

Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+7

apisix

apache/apisix · ★ 17.2K

Apache APISIX is an open-source, dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway that also serves as an AI Gateway. It provides traffic management — load balancing, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability — for both north-south and east-west traffic.

+2

kong

Kong/kong · ★ 44.3K

Kong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.

+1

istio

istio/istio · ★ 38.4K

Istio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, giving you a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices with few or no code changes.

+1

yapi

YMFE/yapi · ★ 27.7K

YApi is a visual API management platform for developers, product managers and QA: one place to document, debug, mock and automatically test your APIs.

The all-time top

5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Kong/kong

    kong

    Kong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.

    44.3K
  2. #2 · istio/istio

    istio

    Istio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, giving you a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices with few or no code changes.

    38.4K
  3. #3 · YMFE/yapi

    yapi

    YApi is a visual API management platform for developers, product managers and QA: one place to document, debug, mock and automatically test your APIs.

    27.7K
  1. 4

    apisix

    17.2Kapache/apisix · Lua

    Apache APISIX is an open-source, dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway that also serves as an AI Gateway. It provides traffic management — load balancing, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability — for both north-south and east-west traffic.

  2. 5

    tyk

    10.9KTykTechnologies/tyk · Go

    Tyk is an open-source, cloud-native API Gateway that lets you manage REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol) traffic in one place, adding authentication, rate limiting, quotas and analytics to your APIs.

Often tagged together