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AI and API Manager

Simplify your AI and API operations with Zuplo-powered solutions on Akamai Cloud

Modernize your enterprise API management and launch secure agentic AI.

Streamline API management with Git-native “API-as-code” workflows and bank-grade security. Natively deploy on Akamai Cloud for five-nines availability, automated Stripe-like developer portals, and advanced token-aware traffic management for LLMs.

Powering API’s evolution to AI

Consistent operations and governance across APIs

Unify your distributed endpoints across multicloud environments through a single control plane.

Less development effort, reduced cloud costs

Lower your operational overhead and slash gateway costs by up to 80%.

AI cost control and governance

Manage and authenticate LLM usage to prevent budget overruns, and manage compliance and access.

How it Works

Improve operations, agility, and governance of your APIs and AI workloads with a unified, serverless solution

Git-native, multicloud API manager

Build, deploy, and scale APIs efficiently on a serverless API management platform designed for developers.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for REST and GraphQL endpoints

Transform your APIs into AI-compatible tools with zero code modifications. Instant MCP server generation for the AI-native era.

Serverless, global AI gateway with routing and governance

Secure your AI applications with authentication, rate limiting, and intelligent model routing and built-in guardrails for security and observability.

Streamline management and oversight of your business’s AI and API services while maintaining operational agility

GitOps-native configuration

Store every policy, route, and rate-limit rule inside your existing Git repository to simplify deployment and operations.

Quickly enable cost-effective AI

Quickly and reliably transform existing enterprise REST and GraphQL APIs into machine-readable tools for LLMs as you deploy AI.

AI routing, cost-control, and governance

Manage individual LLM usage and authentication to control costs and meet evolving governance requirements.

Features

  • GitOps-native API gateway: Deploy across global locations with sub–50 ms latency and 99.99% uptime SLA
  • Instant MCP functionality: Quickly add MCP integration to existing APIs with scoped tool access and built-in auth for AI agents
  • LLM traffic governance: Route AI requests across providers, enforce token budgets, and enable auto-failover, all from a single control plane
  • Built-in security and authentication: Enforce JWT, OAuth2, mTLS, and API key auth out of the box — no custom middleware required
  • Developer portal and monetization: Launch self-serve portals with tiered pricing, usage-based billing, and auto-generated checkout
  • Semantic caching: Reduce LLM costs and latency by caching semantically similar prompts with configurable hit-rate controls
  • Programmable rate limiting: Set per-key quotas and usage policies at the edge, enforced globally across all locations
  • Enterprise-grade compliance: Full audit logs, RBAC, and SAML SSO built in — no bolt-on tools needed
  • Prompt injection protection: Block malicious inputs and mask secrets before they reach third-party AI models

AI and API Manager use cases

Modernize your API infrastructure to eliminate technical debt, accelerate releases, and secure endpoints across multicloud environments.

Akamai AI and API Manager delivers an agile, serverless gateway that streamlines API operations and unlocks developer productivity.

  • Store routing, access controls, and traffic policies as version-controlled files in Git. Automate code updates with your CI/CD pipelines.
  • Customize configurations and routing at the network using clear, direct TypeScript code.
  • Auto-generate developer docs from your OpenAPI spec. Integrate billing with Stripe to boost paid conversions.

Cut API infrastructure costs by 70%–80% compared to legacy tools. Let developers launch preview environments in less than 20 seconds.

Instantly extend the reach and capabilities of your existing services.

Secure operational REST endpoints and GraphQL services to large language models and autonomous AI tools without rebuilding complete stacks.

  • Instant MCP server generation: Deploy a distributed high-performance translation layer that converts older, traditional back-end APIs into AI-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools with a few clicks.
  • Declarative manifest management: Link application schema specifications and model capabilities using standard configuration sheets directly inside source control.
  • Unified pipeline governance: Apply your existing rate limits, encryption, and authentication mechanics to AI query tool execution to protect your core production stability.

Accelerate your AI time-to-market from months to a single day without requiring slow, cost-prohibitive back-end or infrastructure modifications.

Establish Git-integrated, enterprise-grade controls

Audit, monitor, and govern user prompts and multi-model LLM traffic endpoints from a single operations dashboard.

  • Token-aware traffic and expense management: Protect your budget from unpredictable multicloud inference costs with real-time token tracking, expense alerts, and departmental spend caps.
  • AI-aware semantic caching: Analyze contextually similar natural-language requests closer to users and resolve repeated prompts from cache to slash variable model utilization fees.
  • Inline streaming scrubbing and guardrails: Leverage full WebSocket termination to securely inspect live text streams, intercept threats, isolate prompt manipulation, and actively redact consumer PII.

Reduce AI operational inferencing costs while providing data safety and unified compliance visibility for legal and security teams.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Akamai AI and API Manager is a fully managed, developer-focused AI and API traffic governance platform deployed globally across Akamai Cloud. It serves as a unified application-layer control plane bridging traditional programmatic architectures with the nondeterministic demands of the AI era.

Unlike legacy gateways, it’s 100% GitOps-native and programmable in TypeScript. It runs as a service with native AI controls like token rate limits, semantic caching, and instant MCP bridging.

No, AI and API Manager is a new offering powered by Zuplo that runs on Akamai Cloud. Akamai API Gateway is an edge delivery feature.

It’s compatible with Git (GitHub, Bitbucket), VS Code, and local IDEs, OpenAPI/Swagger, existing CI/CD pipelines, and web frameworks like React.

Instances run on Akamai Cloud in any region you choose. You can select multiple regions to improve performance and resilience of production workloads.

It works natively with major LLMs, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and custom or local fine-tuned models.

Find out how you can improve your AI and API operations and governance

Discover the benefits of AI and API Manager for yourself:

  • No infrastructure to provision or maintain
  • Complete Git integration eliminates proprietary UIs and simplifies ops
  • Built-in documentation generation and monetization

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