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Spring Cloud Gateway
API gateway built on Project Reactor for building microservices
As of 30 August 2026, Spring Cloud Gateway is free to use. Spring Cloud Gateway is a library for building API gateways with Spring. Softwr lists it under APIs. Spring Cloud Gateway is made by VMware/Pivotal, launched in 1998, available on API.
Overview
What Spring Cloud Gateway does
Spring Cloud Gateway is a library for building API gateways with Spring. It provides a simple yet effective way to route requests and apply cross-cutting concerns in microservices architecture.
What people use it for
- API Development
- API Gateway
- API Testing
- API Documentation
- Microservices
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- Released under the Apache 2.0 license, free and open source with no commercial tier
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Pricing
What Spring Cloud Gateway costs
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Open Source
Free
- Core Spring Cloud Gateway
- Community support
Capabilities
Features
Routing
Path Rewriting
Circuit Breaker
Spring Boot
Integration with Spring Boot
Spring Security
Integration with Spring Security
Spring Cloud
Integration with Spring Cloud
Java support
Available on Java
Spring Boot support
Available on Spring Boot
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Questions people ask
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Is Spring Cloud Gateway free?
Yes, Spring Cloud Gateway is free and open-source software. It is part of the Spring ecosystem and available through GitHub repositories with open-source dependencies like spring-cloud-starter-gateway-server-webflux and spring-cloud-starter-gateway-server-webmvc.
SourceWhat enterprise support is available for Spring Cloud Gateway?
Tanzu Spring provides optional enterprise support including Day 0 access to security patches for organizations requiring guaranteed support, but specific pricing is not published on the Spring Cloud Gateway project page.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Spring Cloud Gateway
- Company
- VMware/Pivotal
- Based in
- Palo Alto, California, USA
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