APISIX Has a Free API — Cloud-Native API Gateway With Plugin Ecosystem

APISIX: The Apache API Gateway Apache APISIX is a cloud-native API gateway with 80+ plugins. Rate limiting, auth, observability, traffic management — all configurable via REST API without restarts. Why APISIX 80+ built-in plugins Dynamic config — no restarts Dashboard UI Multi-protocol: HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT Lua/Wasm plugin development The Free API # Create a route curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 \ -H "X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1" \ -X PUT -d "{ \" uri \" : \" /api/* \" , \" upstream \" : { \" type \" : \" roundrobin \" , \" nodes \" : { \" 127.0.0.1:8080 \" : 1}}}" # Add rate limiting plugin curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 \ -H "X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1" \ -X PATCH -d "{ \" plugins \" : { \" limit-count \" : { \" count \" : 100, \" time_window \" : 60, \" rejected_code \" : 429}}}" # Add JWT auth curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 \ -X PATCH -H "X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1" \ -d "{