GATEWAY ORCHESTRATION

Stop Managing Gateways. Start Orchestrating Revenue.

Usage-based billing across legacy API gateways, MCP servers, and AI Agents is a mess of glue code and data lag. Aforo is the single, low-latency control plane that unifies catalog discovery, ingestion, and enforcement across your entire traditional and GenAI stack.

Not another gateway. Not another silo. The intelligent orchestration layer that makes your entire API estate profitable and governable from one platform.

Aforo Control Plane

Pricing EngineBilling PipelineMargin GuardEntitlements
Sync Entitlements & Keys
Redis Edge Cache (< 5ms)
< 5ms Edge Enforcement
Kong
Lua Plugin
Apigee
Shared Flow
MuleSoft
Custom Policy
AWS API Gateway
Lambda Extension
Azure APIM
Policy Fragment
BYOG (Custom)
Native SDK / API
AI Agents
Async Decorator
MCP Servers
SDK Decorator
Async Telemetry ↑ Control Plane

THE FOUR PILLARS

Universal Gateway Orchestration.

Your infrastructure is set. Aforo makes it intelligent. We integrate deeply with enterprise gateways to automate the four critical lifecycle tasks.

01

Automated Catalog Discovery

Point Aforo at MuleSoft or Apigee. We automatically parse route definitions to discover, index, and version your APIs and MCP servers. No manual data entry.

02

Zero-Lag Ingestion

Native plugins emit events directly to our pipeline. We capture high-volume telemetry across legacy and modern stacks in under 5ms, with zero log-shipping delays.

03

Edge Enforcement

Push margin guard and entitlement logic directly to the gateway. Block unprofitable or unauthorized requests at the edge via Redis-cached checks before they cost you compute.

04

Automated Identity Sync

Eliminate custom provisioning scripts. When a subscription upgrades in Aforo, API keys and permissions are instantly synchronized across your entire multi-cloud gateway estate.

THE PROBLEM

“We have 4 different gateways and no way to see total usage per customer.”

Each gateway has its own analytics dashboard, its own API key format, and its own rate-limiting model. Engineering maintains custom sync scripts between each gateway and the billing system. When a script breaks, customers get billed wrong. Nobody finds out until the dispute arrives.

× Fragmented usage visibility
× Manual key provisioning
× Billing drift between systems
× No cross-gateway entitlements
THE AFORO SOLUTION

A unified view and control layer across every cloud and every gateway provider.

Aforo aggregates usage, entitlements, and API keys from all gateways into one platform. One catalog. One billing pipeline. One entitlement engine. Engineers delete the sync scripts. Finance gets a single source of truth.

Unified usage across all gateways
Automated key provisioning
Zero billing drift
Cross-gateway entitlement enforcement

FOR THE PLATFORM ARCHITECT

Decoupled Logic. Unified Execution.

Aforo decouples business logic — billing, plans, margin policies, entitlements — from infrastructure complexity. Your gateways handle traffic. Aforo handles the monetization math. The two communicate through a low-latency orchestration layer that processes entitlement checks in less than 5ms via Redis-cached policies.

This means your platform architects do not need to embed billing conditionals in gateway configuration. Rate plans, margin floors, and feature gates are defined centrally in Aforo and enforced at the edge — across every gateway in your estate simultaneously.

< 5ms
Decision latency (Redis-cached)
Immutable
Single source of truth for security + financial audits
Horizontal
Scale with your gateway fleet
INFRASTRUCTURE SOVEREIGNTY

Switch Gateways, Keep Your Revenue.

Gateways change. Cloud strategies evolve. Acquisitions bring new stacks. Aforo abstracts the gateway layer so your commercial strategy — rate plans, entitlements, and margin policies — persists across multi-cloud expansions and vendor transitions. Rewrite zero billing code when your infrastructure evolves.

FUTURE-PROOFED FOR AI

The First Orchestration Plane Built for AI Agents.

Traditional gateways meter API calls. Aforo meters reasoning — tokens, tool invocations, agent sessions, and multi-step chains.

MCP Servers

Meter tool calls, session duration, and input/output tokens per JSON-RPC request. Bill at the tool level.

AI Agents

Track multi-step reasoning chains, model switching, and context window consumption across Claude, GPT, and custom agents.

Agentic APIs

Handle variable-cost endpoints where a single request may trigger 10+ downstream calls. COGS attributed per sub-task.

< 5ms
Edge enforcement latency
Entitlement + margin check at gateway
0ms
Added application latency
Billing logic invisible to your code
BYOG
6+ Gateways & Custom Integrations
Kong, Apigee, AWS, Azure, MCP, plus full SDKs to bring your own homegrown gateway.
Real-time
Bi-directional key sync
Subscribe → provisioned instantly

Deepen Your Monetization Strategy

Unify Your Sprawl. Unlock Your Revenue.

Your infrastructure is already great. Aforo makes it profitable. See how the Platform of Platforms can orchestrate your entire API estate in minutes.