What WSO2 MCP Gateway does
Transforms existing APIs and OpenAPI definitions into managed MCP tools, and proxies existing MCP servers with governance, security, analytics, and lifecycle management.
Why teams reach for it: It reaches MCP from the API-management side: the platform that already fronts an organisation's REST APIs auto-generates MCP servers from those APIs and then governs the resulting MCP traffic itself, acting as a resource server that validates JWT access tokens and serves protected-resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, and allowing or denying individual tools, resources, prompts and JSON-RPC methods by scope and claim.
How WSO2 MCP Gateway compares
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- Transports Client Facing
- Streamable HTTP
- Transports Server Facing
- Streamable HTTP
- Server Aggregation
- Yes
- Terminates Auth
- Yes
- Rbac
- Yes
- Tool Filtering
- Yes
- Agent Identity
- Yes
- Policy Enforcement
- Built-in engine
- Audit Logging
- Yes
- Telemetry Output
- Both
- Also Proxies
- LLM inference
- Deploy Targets
- Docker, Kubernetes
- 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.