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agentgateway (formerly Gloo AI Gateway): an honest review of Solo.io's AI gateway

von Gaurang Rokad

Published: October 14, 2026

⚡ TL;DR

Gloo AI Gateway is no longer sold under that name. Solo.io's AI gateway is now agentgateway, an Apache 2.0 proxy written in Rust and hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, with a paid edition called Solo Enterprise for agentgateway. It's self-hosted only, and it governs LLM, MCP and agent-to-agent traffic. We ran the open-source build ourselves: it's strong on MCP authorization and more generous than Solo's own feature matrix suggests, but fleet-wide rate limits and cost management are paid, we found no response caching, and a few defaults need attention before production.

Search for Gloo AI Gateway today and solo.io sends you somewhere else: the old product page at solo.io/products/gloo-ai-gateway redirects to agentgateway. Behind the redirect, Solo moved its AI gateway features off Envoy and onto a new proxy built for MCP and agent traffic.

That much is in Solo's announcements. We wanted to know what the gateway actually does, so we ran it ourselves and checked the behaviours that matter in production, with version numbers wherever a result depends on them. If you're comparing Solo against the wider field, our roundup of Solo.io competitors and alternatives covers that ground. This post stays on the gateway itself.

agentgateway (formerly Gloo AI Gateway) review at a glance

Area Our Verdict (agentgateway v1.5.0 and v1.6.0)
MCP authorization Strong. Per-tool CEL rules and per-caller tool lists, both confirmed hands-on.
Provider passthrough Excellent in our tests, with no silent breaks found.
Spend controls Per-key budgets work in the free standalone build, but enforcement is retrospective. Fleet-wide limits are paid.
Response caching None found, in either edition.
Resilience defaults Need tuning: retries make one extra call, and stalled streams hang without an idle timeout.
Image generation and audio Proxied as plain HTTP only, with no token or cost tracking.
Deployment Self-hosted only (binary, container, VM or Kubernetes).
Licence and governance Apache 2.0, hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation.

What happened to Gloo AI Gateway

Solo's AI gateway features used to run on Gloo Gateway, Solo's Envoy-based API gateway. Solo donated the open-source Gloo Gateway to the CNCF, where it was renamed kgateway and accepted as a Sandbox project in March 2025. That same month Solo created a new proxy from scratch in Rust: the agentgateway repository dates from 18 March 2025.

The handover took about eight months, across two kgateway releases, one Solo announcement and a move to a foundation:

Date What Changed
10 Oct 2025 kgateway v2.1 integrates agentgateway as a beta and begins deprecating “the Envoy-based AI Gateway and Envoy-based Inference Extension, since all related functionality is now implemented natively through agentgateway.” Removal is planned for v2.2.
15 Oct 2025 Solo announces Solo Enterprise for agentgateway, its commercial distribution.
11 Feb 2026 kgateway v2.2 gives agentgateway its own controller, CRDs and Helm charts, and removes AI policy from the Envoy path's TrafficPolicy.
4 Jun 2026 agentgateway becomes a hosted project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
Figure 1: From Gloo AI Gateway to agentgateway. The orange milestones are the ones that break existing configuration.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

What is Gloo AI Gateway called now?

Solo.io's AI gateway is now agentgateway, an open-source project under the Agentic AI Foundation, with Solo Enterprise for agentgateway as the paid edition. The old Gloo AI Gateway page on solo.io now redirects to agentgateway.

What's the difference between Gloo Gateway, kgateway and agentgateway?

Gloo Gateway was Solo's Envoy-based API gateway. Solo donated the open-source version to the CNCF, where it became kgateway in March 2025. agentgateway is a separate proxy written in Rust that Solo started the same month, and it replaced the Envoy-based AI features: kgateway v2.1 deprecated them and v2.2 removed them. On the commercial side, Gloo Gateway was renamed Solo Enterprise for kgateway, and Solo Enterprise for agentgateway is its own product.

Is agentgateway free, and what does Solo.io pricing look like?

agentgateway is free and Apache 2.0 licensed, and the open-source build includes per-key budgets, local rate limits, PII masking, MCP tool authorization and a request log. Solo doesn't publish enterprise pricing. Licences come through sales, and the only outside figure we found, Vendr's median Solo.io contract of $68,000 a year, covers all of Solo.io's products.

What's the difference between agentgateway and Solo Enterprise for agentgateway?

They share the same data plane. The enterprise edition adds on-behalf-of identity, global rate limiting, a budget resource and Cost Management UI, FIPS and long-term-support builds, and a support contract, and it needs a licence key from Solo's sales team.

Does Gloo AI Gateway (agentgateway) support MCP?

Yes, and it's the product's strongest area. It federates several MCP servers behind one endpoint, supports stdio and streamable HTTP transports, can expose OpenAPI services as MCP tools, and authorizes access per tool with CEL rules, including filtering the tool list per caller.

Kann ich TrueFoundry in meiner eigenen VPC oder On-Prem bereitstellen?

Ja. TrueFoundry läuft in Ihrer VPC, On-Prem, Air-Gapped oder hybrid, sodass Prompts und Antworten Ihre Domäne nie verlassen, auch wenn Sie über viele Anbieter hinweg routen.

Is TrueFoundry SOC 2 compliant?

TrueFoundry's SaaS maintains SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA programs, and reports are available at trust.truefoundry.com. TrueFoundry's documentation says these certifications apply to its managed infrastructure. For self-hosted deployments, compliance depends on your own infrastructure and controls. RBAC, SSO and audit logging are built in.

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