Higress vs OpenResty
HigressAPI Gateway
FreePublished price
OpenRestyAPI Gateway
CustomPublished price
Higress API Gateway Production-grade AI Gateway for Agent development and LLM API management | OpenResty API Gateway Enterprise solutions for distributed traffic management and production-level dynamic tracing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | API Gateway | API Gateway |
| What it is | Cloud-native API gateway by Alibaba based on Envoy with service discovery and plugin extensibility. | Enterprise OpenResty platform for scalable web apps and API gateways with Lua. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | Free Higress does not publish a current numeric starting price on its public product site. Pricing is tailored by deployment, usage, modules, organization size, or contract scope; cont… | Custom The core OpenResty web platform (Nginx + LuaJIT) is free open source. The commercial OpenResty Edge product (Pro and Enterprise tiers) is contact-for-quote only with no published… |
| Pricing model | Custom quote | Custom quote |
| Free options | Free plan · Free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 2011 |
| Team size | 10000+ employees | 11-50 employees |
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, China | Palo Alto, CA |