Cloudflare API Gateway
Global, integrated API protection and monitoring
Powered by 320 locations on our global network, API Gateway automatically discovers, validates, and protects your API endpoints.
BENEFITS OF API GATEWAY
Automatically discover API endpoints
Continuously discover your public API endpoints and their schemas with machine learning models and heuristics.
Block OWASP Top 10 API Security risks
Stop common API attacks, including zero-day exploits, authentication abuse, data loss, DDoS, and other business logic attacks.
Reduce costs by only serving to clean API traffic
Validate incoming requests against schemas, authentication, and legitimate API business logic — and reduce your API hosting costs.
Protect and maintain high-performing APIs with integrated security and monitoring
Built on our global, Internet-native network, API Gateway automatically discovers, secures, and monitors API endpoints across your entire landscape — without slowing business innovation.
It consolidates application and API inventory, policy management, analytics, and reporting on a single platform, with the same connectivity and security benefits offered by Cloudflare’s web application services.
Learn how your company’s API security compares to industry peers
ANALYST RECOGNITION
Cloudflare only new vendor in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE)
Cloudflare has been recognized in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) report. We believe our recognition validates our commitment to continue advancing our Zero Trust platform to help secure hybrid work.
Cloudflare named a Strong Performer in “The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2023
Cloudflare cites continued disruptive momentum in the SSE market, receiving the highest scores possible, 5.0/5.0, in the innovation, roadmap, pricing flexibility & transparency, and hybrid workforce enablement & protection criteria.
Cloudflare named a "Leader" in 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for SASE
Through its 2023 SASE market analysis, KuppingerCole Analysts AG cited several Cloudflare strengths such as our large globally distributed presence and sophisticated traffic acceleration, massive backbone capacity, 100% uptime guarantee, and innovative Remote Browser Isolation.
What our customers are saying
“Considering how complex our surface is — with mobile and traditional websites, 13 brands, and so many geographies — it’s impressive how quickly and easily we implemented Cloudflare and how Cloudflare supported us throughout the entire effort.”
Head of Information Security, boohoo Group
Top API Gateway use cases
Cloudflare API Gateway helps you catalog and manage API endpoints, while blocking attacks, vulnerability exploits, and data leakage
Discover shadow APIs
Document every public API in your landscape, even those that are unmanaged or unsecured.
Prevent data exfiltration
Stop data leaks by continuously scanning response payloads for sensitive data.
Create a positive security model
Protect APIs by only accepting traffic that conforms to your OpenAPI schemas — while blocking malformed requests and HTTP anomalies.
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