Zuplo
API Gateway Comparisons

Zuplo vs
Gravitee

  • SOC 2 Type II
  • 99.999% SLA
  • 300+ edge locations

The Enterprise API Gateway for Teams Replatforming Off Gravitee

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Feature
Zuplo
Gravitee
Compliance and Audit Readiness
Enterprise Identity (SSO + RBAC)
Managed Dedicated Deployment
AI Gateway and MCP Support
Operational Simplicity
Developer Experience
AccuWeather
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Blockdaemon
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Lake Michigan Credit Union
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Finsolutia
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VNDR
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Mews
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Yext
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Zumiez
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What's wrong with Gravitee

Gravitee's key limitations for modern engineering teams

The forces driving enterprises off Gravitee in 2026 — operational tax, plugin sprawl, retrofitted AI, and pricing that doesn't predict.

Java Runtime + MongoDB + Elasticsearch

Self-hosted production deployments require JVM tuning plus MongoDB and Elasticsearch operations (with Redis for rate limiting). Gravitee Cloud removes that burden but moves you onto per-gateway pricing tiers.

Enterprise Features Behind Paywalls

Community Edition lacks async API support, hybrid deployments, alerting, advanced observability, and enterprise SSO. Most capabilities enterprises actually need are Enterprise-only.

Java-Based Policy Framework

Logic is built in the Policy Studio with Gravitee's Expression Language, Groovy scripting, or custom Java policy plugins. Capable, but tied to the JVM toolchain rather than a mainstream language and npm ecosystem.

Why Zuplo

Built for teams replatforming off Gravitee

Managed, modern API management with predictable economics across procurement cycles — no operator overhead, no plugin sprawl, no consumption-pricing surprises.

Compliance and Audit Readiness

First-class managed compliance vs. compliance dependent on deployment.

Enterprise Identity (SSO + RBAC)

SAML/SCIM included on Enterprise vs. Enterprise-Edition-only SSO.

Managed Dedicated Deployment

Managed dedicated across major clouds vs. self-hosted or gateway-tiered managed pricing.

A solutions architect can walk you through your current Gravitee setup, surface the biggest operational tax, and map a migration path — no slide deck required.

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Enterprise ready

Production-ready for regulated and high-volume workloads

Compliance & Audit

  • SOC 2 Type II audited annually
  • Third-party penetration test reports available under NDA
  • GDPR-aligned data processing
  • Audit logs across the control plane
  • API governance with policy enforcement

Identity & Access

  • SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning
  • Role-based access control across organizations, projects, and environments
  • Service-account credentials with scoped permissions
  • API key metadata for downstream authorization

Deployment Flexibility

  • Managed edge across 300+ locations — global by default
  • Managed dedicated single-tenant on AWS, Azure, GCP, Akamai, or any major cloud
  • Self-hosted on Kubernetes with full control plane
  • Bring-your-own-cloud for data residency requirements

Support & Success

  • Up to 30-minute response SLA on Enterprise
  • 24/7/365 emergency hotline for critical incidents
  • Named technical account manager
  • Architecture and migration professional services

Built for the AI era

Built for AI agents, MCP, and token-aware traffic

Gravitee shipped a first-class AI Gateway in 4.10 (Jan 2026): an LLM proxy with model routing, prompt token tracking, guardrails, and semantic caching, plus a protocol-native MCP proxy and A2A support. It is capable — but it runs on the same self-hosted Java gateway with MongoDB and Elasticsearch that platform teams want to stop operating.

Unified AI Gateway

Multi-provider model routing, semantic caching, prompt injection protection, budget and token controls.

MCP Gateway

Turn any API into a remote MCP server, or govern third-party MCP servers behind a single managed gateway.

Agentic auth and identity

Per-agent API keys, scoped credentials, and dynamic per-call policies.

Token economics built in

Per-token metering, per-customer model budgets, native API monetization (beta).

See it in action

See Zuplo running on your stack

A 30-minute working session with a Zuplo solutions engineer. Bring an OpenAPI spec or a Kong route definition and walk away with a working preview.

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Side by side

Feature-by-feature comparison

Feature
Zuplo
Gravitee
Compliance and Audit Readiness
SOC 2 Type II audited annually, third-party penetration test reports under NDA, audit logs, GDPR-aligned data processing.
Compliance posture varies by deployment. Self-hosted Community Edition compliance depends on customer environment.
Enterprise Identity (SSO + RBAC)
SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, and RBAC across organizations, projects, and environments.
Enterprise SSO is an Enterprise Edition feature. Community Edition lacks it.
Managed Dedicated Deployment
Single-tenant managed deployment on AWS, Azure, GCP, Akamai, or any major cloud with up to a 30-minute response SLA. Self-hosted on Kubernetes also supported.
Self-hosted Community/Enterprise Edition, or managed Gravitee Cloud from $2,500/month (Planet tier, 1 production gateway; more gateways at custom pricing). Hybrid deployments Enterprise-only.
AI Gateway and MCP Support
Integrated AI Gateway with multi-provider routing, semantic caching, prompt injection protection, budget and token controls. Dedicated MCP Gateway product.
Dedicated AI Gateway (4.10): LLM proxy with model routing, semantic caching, prompt guardrails, and token tracking, plus a native MCP proxy and A2A — running on the self-hosted Java gateway.
Operational Simplicity
Fully managed and serverless across 300+ edge locations. Zero databases or runtimes to operate.
Self-hosted Java platform requires MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, and JVM management. Gravitee Cloud removes the ops but adds per-gateway tier pricing.
Developer Experience
TypeScript policies with full IDE support and the npm ecosystem. OpenAPI-native config and GitOps workflows.
Policy Studio with Gravitee Expression Language, Groovy scripts, or custom Java policy plugins — a JVM-centric toolchain.
GitOps and CI/CD
Native GitHub integration — all configuration stored as code with PR-level preview environments.
GitOps via the Kubernetes Operator (APIs as CRDs, ArgoCD integration) for teams running on Kubernetes; otherwise configured through the Management API or Console.
Developer Portal
Auto-generated, OpenAPI-driven portal with self-serve API key management.
Developer portal available but requires separate configuration and Enterprise Edition for full features.
API Monetization
Built-in usage-based billing and tiered access (in beta).
Enterprise Edition feature. Not available in Community Edition.
Async API Support
Synchronous REST/HTTP focus. Backends can include Kafka or similar via standard HTTP/WebSocket adapters.
Native async API gateway with Kafka, MQTT, Solace, RabbitMQ support — Enterprise Edition feature.

Migration path

Migrating from Gravitee to Zuplo

OpenAPI specs import directly. Gravitee policies map to Zuplo TypeScript policies. Async-API workloads can stay where Gravitee's event-native gateway is core; sync API management migrates to Zuplo.

Migration phases

Typical production cut-over in 6–12 weeks

  1. Inventory APIs and policies

    Catalog Gravitee APIs, plans, applications, and policies. Identify async-API workloads that may stay on Gravitee.

    2 wksPlan locked

  2. Foundation deployment

    Stand up Zuplo Enterprise on managed dedicated deployment. Configure SSO/SCIM, RBAC, and CI/CD wiring.

    2 wksFoundation live

  3. Policy and consumer migration

    Translate Gravitee policies to TypeScript. Migrate plans, applications, and API keys via the Zuplo Developer API.

    4 wksSide-by-side

  4. Cut-over and decommission

    Move sync API traffic to Zuplo with weighted routing, validate SLOs, then decommission Gravitee components for that surface.

    2 wksCut-over done

What our customers say

Trusted by engineering teams at scale

Blockdaemon

90%

Hardware footprint reduction at scale

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"The move to Zuplo from our existing API Management vendor was easy, taking just over 2 months to switch mission critical systems, and we're saving over 70% on costs."

Ryan Waites

Senior Director, Blockdaemon

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"Zuplo gives us the flexibility to scale efficiently, ensures security and compliance, and reduces operational complexity so we can focus on building new capabilities."

Daryl Benzel

Staff Software Engineer, Yext

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AccuWeather

1B+

End users served via Zuplo APIs

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Finsolutia

Hours

To launch MCP server on regulated APIs

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"We didn't touch a line of code, it's just plug and play. The results were very surprising, in just a couple of hours we had a great result and a fully working MCP Server."

Miguel Madeira

CTO & Co-Founder, Finsolutia

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Trusted for regulated and high-volume workloads

SOC 2 Type II Third-party penetration testing GDPR-aligned 24/7/365 emergency hotline
300+ Global edge locations
Billions API requests served / month
Up to 99.999% Enterprise uptime SLA
<20s Global deploy time

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Zuplo vs Gravitee.

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