Unkey isn't often cited as a competitor to Zuplo as it's SDK based vs a gateway. However, they do offer API Key auth and rate limiting which are extremely popular features in Zuplo, so let's see how they holistically compare.
| Unkey | Zuplo | |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation | SDK | Gateway |
| Funny on Twitter | ✅ Like Morecambe & Wise | ❌ |
| API Key Auth | ✅ | ✅ |
| GitHub Secret Scanning | ✅ | ✅ But we did it first |
| Rate Limits | ✅ | ✅ |
| JWT Auth | ❌ | ✅ |
| Basic Auth | ❌ | ✅ |
| mTLS Auth | ❌ | ✅ |
| Request Validation | ❌ | ✅ |
| Security Policies | ❌ | ✅ |
| Cognito, Okta, Auth0, Clerk etc | ❌ | ✅ |
| Authorization Policies | ❌ | ✅ |
| Monetization | ❌ | ✅ |
| Natively powered by OpenAPI | ❌ | ✅ |
| Awesome developer portal | ❌ | 🔥 Check this |
| Monetization | ❌ | ✅ Did we mention this |
| AI Gateway | ❌ | ✅ |
| Dynamic REST - MCP Servers | ❌ | ✅ |
| Dynamic GraphQL - MCP Servers | ❌ | ✅ |
| MCP Gateway | ❌ | ✅ |
| 60+ policies | ❌ | ✅ |
| Programmable policies | ❌ | ✅ |
| Route Designer | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pinkness | ❌ | ✅ |
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