agentgateway
Shares rank 7 of 8 LLM gateways by recommenders
Open-source gateway for AI agents and MCP tools, adding access policies, sessions and audit logs. Critics object to AI-generated-looking images and readme prose.
Open-source gateway for AI agents and MCP tools, adding access policies, sessions and audit logs. Critics object to AI-generated-looking images and readme prose.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Access control for MCP tools
“agentgateway handles RBAC (CEL policies per MCP tool), session management, and audit logging”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “MCP server that audits AI agent reasoning before decisions commit” “You can use something like agentgateway to act as an auth proxy for your mcp servers.”
Comment from 22 Aug 2026 in “New MCP Roadmap”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Images and readme read as AI-generated
“Ai slop images are a huge turnoff, everything about this screams eyes free development”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “Beta Agent Gateway – Anyone want to try it out?” “the ai speak is oozing uncontrollably from the readme”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “Beta Agent Gateway – Anyone want to try it out?”
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The four most recommended other LLM gateways, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LiteLLM | 72 | 94 | 43% | 12 | — | — |
| Bifrost by Maxim | 17 | 6 | 74% | 10 | — | Approved |
| GoModel | 13 | 2 | 87% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Claude Code Router | 11 | 3 | 79% | 5 | — | Approved |
| agentgatewayThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the ai speak is oozing uncontrollably from the readme”
“I also ran security hardening on the code and images so I object to the term AI slop”
“Ai slop images are a huge turnoff, everything about this screams eyes free development”
“You can use something like agentgateway to act as an auth proxy for your mcp servers.”
“It's a completely separate gateway product, and it even actively competes against Istio's own Envoy implementation.”
“It's open source part of the Linux foundation.”
“agentgateway handles RBAC (CEL policies per MCP tool), session management, and audit logging”
“forces decisions through policy + approval before anything irreversible happens”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.