A Full AI Gateway in SaaS, Not Gated to Self-Hosted Enterprise
WSO2 ships AI Gateway, MCP Hub, and AI Workspace across SaaS, hybrid, and self-managed deployments. Gravitee's LLM Proxy is Enterprise Edition and requires self-hosted or hybrid; it is not available in pure SaaS.
| Pillar |
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Gravitee AI Agent Management |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-head snapshot, by pillar | ||
| Agentic ready | MCP Hub with llms.txt, AI-readiness scoring in the IDE, and Agent ID as part of WSO2's Identity Platform. | MCP tool-server support landed in 4.8, with an ACL policy and usage dashboard since, but there's no developer-facing discovery hub, and gateway-level enforcement against agent identity extracted from a token isn't documented. |
| Universal governance | One control plane governs API, AI, and MCP traffic, including WSO2, AWS, Azure, Kong, and Envoy gateways. | Governance is scoped to Gravitee's own gateway. LLM Proxy, A2A Proxy, MCP ACL, and PII filtering all require Enterprise Edition. |
| Freedom and flexibility | 100% Apache 2.0 core, available in SaaS, hybrid, and self-hosted with no feature gating between them. | Gateway is Apache 2.0, but LLM Proxy explicitly requires self-hosted or hybrid deployment, so pure Gravitee SaaS customers can't use it. |
| Monetization | Native, Moesif-powered analytics, FinOps, and monetization, battle-tested at Siemens, You.com, and Oxford University Press. | Subscription and metering primitives exist, but invoicing requires integrating an external billing system such as Moesif or a custom Stripe pipeline. AI Agent Management itself is contact-only with no published starting price. |
| Capability | Benefit |
|
Gravitee AI Agent Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic ready | |||
| Agent-ready MCP Hub | Agents find and call your APIs without a human in the loop | MCP Hub on a fully customizable portal, llms.txt entry point, and spec endpoints agents can read without auth, plus support for the official MCP Registry (modelcontextprotocol.io). Auto-generates MCP servers from existing API specs in a few clicks. | MCP tool-server support landed in Gravitee 4.8 (June 2025), letting any v4 proxy API be exposed as an MCP server; a management MCP server followed in 4.9. REST-to-tool conversion works only with v4 proxy APIs, and there's no developer-facing catalog, subscription flow, or llms.txt equivalent. |
| MCP governance | Enforce per-tool and per-resource policy on MCP traffic | MCP proxy with authentication, tool-level authorization, rate limits, and rewrite policies, plus support for proxying existing MCP servers through the gateway. | MCP ACL policy adds per-tool and per-resource rules, with a usage dashboard added in 4.11. All of it requires Enterprise Edition. |
| A2A and agent identity | Govern agent-to-agent traffic and know which agent is calling | A2A support on the AI Gateway is targeted for Q3 2026. WSO2's Identity Platform already issues and manages agent identity through Agent ID; first-class gateway-level policy enforcement and audit logging against that identity, extracted from the token, is in progress with no committed date yet. | A2A Proxy API type introduced in 4.11 as a dedicated V4 type, with a documented breaking change: existing A2A proxy APIs must be recreated. Access Management 4.11 added RFC 8693 token exchange with actor claims, and 4.12 added agent identities with SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity. |
| Universal governance | |||
| Unified API + AI + MCP governance | One place to govern APIs, LLMs, and MCP traffic | One control plane across API, AI, and MCP traffic, including the gateways WSO2 federates (WSO2, AWS, Azure, Kong, Envoy). | Gravitee's AI capabilities are scoped to its own gateway, with no federation of third-party gateways from a governance layer. |
| AI guardrails depth | Protect data and prove compliance | 40+ open-source policies in Policy Hub: semantic prompt guard, PII masking, NeMo Guard, Granite Guardian, Bedrock, and Azure Content Safety integrations, available across every deployment mode. | AI Prompt Guard Rails policy uses ONNX-based text classification for profanity, harmful intent, and jailbreak prompt injection (Llama Prompt Guard 2, 22M/86M models). AI-powered PII filtering shipped in 4.11 and requires Enterprise Edition plus the Agent Mesh pack; ONNX-based policies also require the heavier Debian gateway image, since the default Alpine images don't support the ONNX Runtime. |
| Identity and access control | Enforce who can call which APIs and tools | WSO2 Identity Server natively secures human APIs and AI traffic with OIDC, SAML, and fine-grained RBAC. | Gateway-level RBAC requires the role-based-access-control policy (Enterprise Edition). Fine-grained authorization is a separately licensed Authorization Management product: an embedded PDP, an OpenFGA relationship-based engine still in technical preview, and an AuthZEN decision endpoint. |
| Event-native governance | Govern Kafka and event-stream traffic alongside APIs and AI | Roadmap: Event Gateway GA targeted for Q4 2026. | Native event-protocol mediation for Kafka, MQTT5, RabbitMQ, Solace, JMS, and Azure Service Bus, plus SSE, Webhook, and WebSocket entrypoints, ships as the Event Management pack, which requires Enterprise Edition. |
| Freedom and flexibility | |||
| SaaS availability | Get the full feature set without standing up your own infrastructure | Full AI Gateway capability set included in WSO2 API Platform SaaS. | LLM Proxy explicitly requires self-hosted or hybrid deployment; it isn't available in pure SaaS. |
| 100% open source foundation | Meets open source procurement and sovereignty mandates | Apache 2.0 across the platform with full function, no open core. Monetization is the one SaaS-only exception. | Gateway is Apache 2.0, but LLM Proxy, A2A Proxy, MCP ACL, AI Semantic Caching, PII filtering, and Agent Catalog all require Enterprise Edition. |
| Provider and routing choice | Route to any model, with routing logic that adapts to cost and latency | Native routing (Round Robin, Weighted, Failover, Intelligent, Semantic) across all major LLM providers and any custom provider you add. | LLM Proxy supports seven provider configurations (Gemini, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, and Vertex AI for both Gemini and Anthropic models). Routing is standard v4 HTTP load balancing (round-robin, random, weighted) plus a runtime model override, with no cost- or latency-aware model router. |
| Predictable commercial model | Know what you'll pay before you scale | Bundled into the WSO2 API Platform subscription. | Contact-only. AI Agent Management has no published starting price, and every AI capability requires Enterprise Edition. |
| Monetization | |||
| Business-level AI analytics | See which customers adopt, which stick, and which will pay more | Moesif-powered adoption funnels, retention, behavioral cohorts, AI Explain, and automated customer guidance. | No product-analytics layer documented for AI Agent Management. Metering primitives exist, but adoption and retention analytics aren't part of the product. |
| AI FinOps and chargeback | Understand and chargeback AI cost automatically | Token and USD budgets per user, team, and app; cost dashboards with fully automated chargeback and export to external systems. | Token Rate Limit policy meters usage by plan or subscription, but chargeback and invoicing require integrating an external billing system. |
| Enterprise-grade AI monetization | Turn AI APIs into revenue centers | Battle-tested with Siemens, You.com, and Oxford University Press. Stripe, Zuora, Chargebee, and AWS Marketplace connectors; prepaid credits and business-level quotas. | Subscription and metering primitives (plans, subscriptions, Assign Metrics policy) exist, but invoicing is delegated to an external system the customer builds and operates, commonly Moesif or a custom Stripe pipeline. |
| Cross-gateway monetization | Monetize the estate you already run, not just one vendor's gateway | Moesif gateway plugins meter Kong and AWS traffic today, billed from one control plane. | Metering is scoped to Gravitee's own gateway traffic; no documented capability to meter other vendors' gateways. |
Why teams choose WSO2 AI Gateway
over Gravitee
Deployment options
Resources
WSO2 AI Gateway
A full AI gateway available in SaaS, hybrid, and self-managed deployments.
API Portal & MCP Hub
Productized MCP Hub for AI-agent tool discovery and consumption.
Frequently asked questions
No. Gravitee's LLM Proxy is Enterprise Edition and requires self-hosted or hybrid deployment; it isn't available in pure SaaS. WSO2 ships AI Gateway, MCP Hub, and AI Workspace across SaaS, hybrid, and self-managed deployments alike.
No. LLM Proxy, A2A Proxy, MCP ACL, AI Semantic Caching, AI-powered PII filtering and Agent Catalog all require Gravitee's Enterprise Edition. WSO2 API Platform's core runtime is Apache 2.0.
Both need a vector store behind the scenes; that's inherent to embedding-based caching. The difference is licensing: Gravitee's AI Semantic Caching policy requires Enterprise Edition plus the Agent Mesh pack on top of its Redis (HNSW) or AWS S3 Vectors backend. WSO2's semantic caching is native to the AI Gateway with configurable similarity thresholds and no separate license or add-on pack required.
No. Gravitee has no released RAG-as-policy; semantic caching exists, but RAG retrieval patterns require custom integration. WSO2 ships a native RAG ingestion pipeline with built-in vector store integrations for Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, and more.
No. Gravitee's ONNX-based policies require the heavier Debian-based gateway image, because the default Alpine images don't support the ONNX Runtime. WSO2 AI Gateway runs on standard production images with no image-tier restriction.
Gravitee was early: MCP tool-server support landed in 4.8 in June 2025, with MCP ACL, a usage dashboard and Agent Catalog since. WSO2 layers a discovery and consumption experience on top, a searchable catalog, subscription flows, credential issuance, and an MCP Playground.
Gravitee is a trademark of Gravitee Topco Limited. All product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only. Last updated August 2026. * Monetization is the one SaaS-only exception to WSO2's Apache 2.0 licensing; every other core component ships fully open source.