WSO2 rolls out an open source API platform that unifies APIs and AI assets, helping enterprises enable agentic AI while retaining control over cost, governance, and vendor independence.
WSO2 has announced the general availability of its API Platform, an open-source solution built on an Apache 2.0 foundation, designed to unify the management of traditional APIs and AI assets from a single control plane. The platform is positioned to eliminate vendor lock-in through a modular architecture while supporting self-managed, SaaS, and hybrid deployments, alongside multi-gateway federation across ecosystems such as Kong, Amazon API Gateway, and Azure API Management.
At its core, the platform enables agentic AI consumption by making APIs accessible to autonomous agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It delivers end-to-end lifecycle management, covering publishing, versioning, and discovery of both APIs and AI tools, while embedding governance for cost, risk, and compliance.
A key innovation is the AI Gateway, which converts APIs into agent-ready tools within minutes and governs both internal and third-party MCP services. Features such as semantic caching, adaptive routing, token-based rate limiting, and model routing help control LLM access and prevent data leakage.
The AI Workspace introduces centralised governance with over 30 built-in guardrails through a Policy Hub, while allowing custom guardrails in Go and integrations such as Azure Content Safety. The platform further extends into FinOps with token-aware analytics, spend capping, and natural language insights, and enables monetisation through prepaid, pay-as-you-go, and outcome-based models via Moesif.
“Enterprises are now exposing APIs and proprietary data to AI agents, and that fundamentally changes the risk profile. Today’s gateways are blind proxies: they approve the 500th retry of a runaway agent the same way they approved the first. These new capabilities give organizations a way to stay in control as that shift accelerates,” said Derric Gilling, Vice President & General Manager of API Platform, WSO2. He added, “this is our first step in helping our customers become truly agentic enterprises.”
