API Management
Complete governance for every API, LLM, and Agent.
Protect and monitor every agent and API interaction across your business. Gain oversight and implement guardrails.
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Learn moreProtect and monitor every agent and API interaction across your business. Gain oversight and implement guardrails.
Scale AI-driven applications and optimize performance with universal API management from MuleSoft. Work in any architecture, from monolithic to microservices. Work with APIs & LLMs of any origin, whatever the protocol -- including Agent2Agent and Model Context Protocol.
Design agent-ready APIs and control resource allocation. Build APIs that are optimized for agent use. Increase efficiency and productivity to maximize value and ROI.
Unlock APIs for Agentforce so that they can take action across your enterprise. Incorporate agent-specific metadata at design-time. Learn more.
Supercharge Agentforce, securely sharing APIs from MuleSoft to Salesforce. Learn more.
Use cloud-based IDE to enable developers to quickly build APIs and integrations using GenAI. Extend tooling to agent-assisted AI clients. Learn more.
Discover APIs across the agentic enterprise. Improve visibility by cataloging every API across your organization. Access resources easily and ensure consistent documentation.
Automatically discover and catalog APIs in any environment using CI/CD pipelines. Learn more.
Consolidate APIs built anywhere into a single source that enables developers to discover and self-serve. Learn more.
Build personalized API portals to drive API use amongst internal and external communities. Learn more.
Protect any API or AI agent, regardless of where its built or deployed, from a single control plane with precise security policies. Avoid redundancy and fragmentation with flexible, adaptable, universal management.
Manage, secure and analyze your APIs and agent traffic using a centralized control plane. Learn more.
Protect APIs, LLMs, and AI agents anywhere they run with high-performance, zero-trust security and unified governance across your entire ecosystem.
Validate and ensure AI compliance. Safeguard your enterprise with APIs that meet your quality and security requirements. Integrate security throughout lifecycle stages.
Define API conformance rules andbest practices, including rules for agent-ready APIs, and ensure APIs conform to these standards from development to deployment. Learn more.
Empower organizations with an easy-to-use realtime dashboard into the health of their API programs. Learn more.
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API management is the practice of governing, securing, and monitoring APIs throughout their entire lifecyclefrom design to retirement. It's critical because APIs are the foundation for connecting systems, enabling AI agents, and powering digital experiences. Without management, organizations face security risks, lack visibility into API usage, experience governance gaps, and struggle with API sprawl across teams which makes it impossible to scale safely or leverage APIs for AI and automation.
You should look for a platform that lets you manage all APIs from one place, as well as: security policies and access control, API gateway for traffic management, discovery and cataloging, analytics and monitoring, lifecycle management, developer portals for self-service, compliance validation, and the ability to manage APIs built anywhere. MuleSoft provides universal API management that works with any API regardless of where it was built or deployed.
An API gateway acts as the entry point that sits between API consumers and backend services, enforcing security policies, rate limiting, authentication, and routing traffic. MuleSoft offers Omni Gateway (the next evolution of Flex Gateway) and Mule Gateway so you can deploy anywhere: cloud, on-prem, edge. The gateway works with API Manager to apply policies, collect analytics, and protect APIs, functioning as the enforcement layer while API Manager provides the control plane for governance and monitoring.
MuleSoft makes migration easy so you wont need to rebuild your existing APIs to start managing them with API Manager. Anypoint Platform can automatically find and organize your current APIs no matter where they live, then add security and monitoring without changing any code. You can bring APIs under management gradually at your own pace, and it works with APIs built anywhere, so you don't have to rip out and replace existing systems.
Yes! MuleSoft's universal API management can protect, govern, and monitor any API regardless of where it was built or deployed, whether on MuleSoft, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or elsewhere. Deploy Omni Gateway (formerly Flex Gateway) or Managed Omni Gateway (formerly Flex Gateway) in front of any API to apply security policies, rate limiting, and analytics. Catalog non-MuleSoft APIs in Anypoint Exchange for discovery and documentation, creating a single source of truth for all APIs across your organization.
Absolutely. MuleSoft offers low-code tools and AI-powered development (Anypoint Code Builder) that enable smaller teams to design, build, and manage APIs without extensive IT resources. Pre-built policies, templates in Exchange, automated cataloging, and visual design tools reduce complexity. Teams can start with a 30-day free trial, deploy Omni Gateway (formerly Flex Gateway) in minutes, and scale up as needs grow.
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