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
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 link below to check the current documentation and scope. 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
- agentgateway, Agent Connectivity Solved, read November 8, 2026
- agentgateway/agentgateway on GitHub, read November 8, 2026
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Cite this entry
Best MCP Gateways. "agentgateway in Best MCP Gateways." Published by Conecto. Reviewed November 8, 2026. https://bestmcpgateways.com/resources/agentgateway/