What MCP Gateway does
Reverse proxy and management layer for MCP servers, enabling scalable, session-aware stateful routing and lifecycle management of MCP servers in Kubernetes environments.
Why teams reach for it: A reverse proxy and management layer for MCP servers that provides scalable, session-aware routing, authorization, and lifecycle management in Kubernetes.
Worth knowing
It speaks Streamable HTTP to clients, aggregates multiple MCP servers behind one endpoint, can host stdio servers remotely.
How MCP Gateway compares
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- Transports Client Facing
- Streamable HTTP
- Transports Server Facing
- Streamable HTTP
- Server Aggregation
- Yes
- Hosts Stdio Servers Remotely
- Yes
- Terminates Auth
- Delegates to external IdP
- Rbac
- Yes
- Tool Filtering
- No
- Agent Identity
- Yes
- Policy Enforcement
- Built-in engine
- Audit Logging
- Yes
- Telemetry Output
- OpenTelemetry
- Also Proxies
- LLM inference, A2A, REST, gRPC
- Deploy Targets
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Self Hostable
- Yes
How will you route, mediate, and control traffic?
A gateway or proxy sits between clients and MCP servers to route traffic or add a control layer, without changing the servers themselves.