KrakenD played a vital role in our API transformation journey by protecting our business platforms boundary and exposing the business capabilities in a standard way to both internal and external audience.
Stefano Leopizzi
Enterprise Architecture / lastminute.com
KrakenD: AI Gateway
A unified control layer for APIs and AI workloads.
Run AI on infrastructure you already trust. No new components required.
Avoid Unnecessary Complexity
AI applications rely on APIs, but introduce new interaction patterns. Most vendors solve this by adding another gateway layer. KrakenD doesn't. It extends a production-proven gateway to handle APIs and AI workloads from the same control plane.
Multiple layers to maintain
Unified control. No additional layers.
AI control without adding new infrastructure.
KrakenD extends your existing API infrastructure to cover the full lifecycle of AI workloads. No new components, no extra network hops, no added latency. Built for platform teams that need to govern APIs and AI from a single control plane.
Route any model. No code changes.
Route requests to any model, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or open source, with fallback, retries and load balancing built in.
Block threats before they reach your LLMs.
Filter prompts and responses before they reach your users or your models. Enforce content policies without touching application code.
Control AI costs at infrastructure level.
Track and limit token consumption per user, team or endpoint. Prevent runaway costs before they appear on your invoice.
Turn your APIs into AI tools in seconds.
Expose your APIs as tools for AI agents in seconds, no code changes, no new infrastructure. Apply the same policies, quotas and security you already use in KrakenD.
Why KrakenD for AI workloads
Most AI gateways are new products solving old problems. KrakenD extends infrastructure already proven in production, so teams can adopt AI without introducing untested components into their architecture. No additional network hops. No extra latency introduced by a separate AI gateway layer.
Not a new gateway built for the AI hype. Built on infrastructure already trusted in production environments, so teams can adopt AI without introducing untested components into their architecture.
Your data, your infrastructure, your rules. Deploy on-premise, on any cloud, or in air-gapped environments. No vendor lock-in, no SaaS dependency.
One set of rules for APIs and AI. Auth, rate limiting, observability and governance applied consistently across all traffic, with no duplication.
KrakenD has been processing mission-critical API traffic in production environments for nearly a decade. Not a new product built for the AI hype.
Used by global enterprises, financial institutions, and high-regulation industries where failure is not an option.
Security, availability, and confidentiality independently audited and certified. The same standards your APIs already run on, now extended for AI workloads.
Walk through real-world scenarios: LLM routing across multiple providers, token budget enforcement per team, prompt security policies, and AI agent governance, all from a single config file on infrastructure you already trust.
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Unified control. No additional layers.
