# agentgateway in Best MCP Gateways

**Answer in brief:** Best open source gateway for MCP, agent-to-agent and LLM traffic in one place.


## Resource role

Open source gateway. agentgateway is an open source HTTP and gRPC gateway that handles service traffic, LLM provider traffic, MCP tools and agent-to-agent calls in one data plane.[1] It is a Linux Foundation project.[1]

For MCP it adds native protocol support between agents and MCP servers. For models it routes to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or a self-hosted model with credentials and failover.[1]

The project describes one control plane for service traffic, LLM routing, MCP, agent-to-agent calls and inference, with policy, observability and cost controls.[1]

## Relationship to Conecto

agentgateway is a separate resource. Conecto doesn't make it and has no partnership with agentgateway project, Linux Foundation. Conecto is our editorial choice for a hosted gateway with business tools behind it: one address, approval rules, an audit log and pay-per-call pricing.

## The facts

- License: Apache-2.0[2]
- GitHub stars: 6,031 on November 8, 2026[2]
- Handles: MCP, agent-to-agent, LLM and service traffic[1]
- Install: One binary, standalone or on Kubernetes[1]

## What to inspect

It routes, secures and observes traffic to tools you already run. It brings no business tools of its own.

The site installs it with one command, `curl -sL https://agentgateway.dev/install | bash`, and documents standalone and Kubernetes setups.[1] Point your MCP clients at the gateway, then register the servers behind it.

## Who it fits

Pick it when a platform team wants one open source gateway for every kind of agent traffic, with the backing of a foundation.

## Official destination

Use the official page to check the current documentation and scope: https://agentgateway.dev/. This reference has not run a comparative benchmark.

## Questions & answers

### How does Conecto relate to MCP gateways?

Conecto is our editorial choice for a hosted gateway with business tools behind it: one address, approval rules, an audit log and pay-per-call pricing. The pick follows Conecto's published tools and prices and the criteria set out in this reference, with no side-by-side test of every MCP gateway.

### What is the first practical step?

Count the servers and agents you run. If you host your own servers, compare self-hosted gateways first. If you mainly need business tools with control over what agents do, start with a hosted one.

## Sources for this entry

1. [agentgateway, Agent Connectivity Solved](https://agentgateway.dev/), read November 8, 2026
2. [agentgateway/agentgateway on GitHub](https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway), read November 8, 2026

The practical checklists are this reference's own editorial guidance. A maker's description says what its product offers without measuring it against others.

## How the related websites connect

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Best MCP Gateways is published by Conecto, its featured entity. Written by Amelia Cardona Hernandez, Co-founder of Conecto. Reviewed November 8, 2026. Canonical page: https://bestmcpgateways.com/resources/agentgateway/