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The Frontier Wire

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API management

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Comparisons

API management platforms compared: twelve options for 2026

Every major API management platform now ships some form of AI gateway. The criteria below separate the platforms built to publish and monetize APIs from the layer built to meter tokens, fail over between model providers and govern MCP tools, and compare twelve options against both.

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Research

How to choose an API management solution: a weighted framework

API management products share a feature list and differ in where their planes run, how their policies port and what they can meter. A weighted criteria table, a proof-of-concept plan and a cost model, grounded in the OpenAPI and OAuth specs and OWASP's 2023 API risks, plus the new question of model traffic.

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