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Middleware DNA
Founders trained, consulted on, and operated SOA / ESB / API platforms long before Apinizer.
Company
An API & AI platform with middleware DNA.
Apinizer was started in 2015 by consultants with 20+ years inside the world's largest SOA, ESB, and API platforms. We built the gateway we always wished we had — Kubernetes-native, audit-first, and ready for both human and agent traffic.
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Organizations in production
Banks, ministries, regulators, defense, energy, telecom — running Apinizer on their own Kubernetes.
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Founded
Started by middleware consultants who saw legacy API gateways stall under regulated, multi-protocol traffic.
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Kubernetes-native release
Rewrote the platform around Manager + Worker — the model every customer runs today.
The story
Built by middleware veterans, for the teams who can't afford a second platform.
Before Apinizer, our founding team spent two decades inside the SOA and ESB era — consulting on, training engineers for, and operating the largest enterprise middleware deployments in the region. We watched the same pattern repeat: powerful platforms that grew brittle, expensive to renew, and slow to adapt to new protocols.
In 2015 we started Apinizer to fix the things legacy gateways could not — multi-protocol mediation, audit at the framework boundary, and a permission model that fits how regulated organizations actually work.
In 2018 we rewrote the platform Kubernetes-native: one Manager, many Workers, every policy promotable as code. That is the architecture every customer runs today — and the foundation on top of which the AI Gateway, MCP governance, and agent-to-agent registry now ship.
What we believe
Four principles. Every release.
These aren't slogans on a wall. They're how the platform decides what ships and what doesn't.
Audit is not optional
Every read, write, and deploy is captured at the framework boundary. Bypass is rejected by design — not by convention.
Sovereign by default
The platform runs on the customer's Kubernetes. No call home, no hidden cloud dependency. Air-gap is supported, not bolted on.
One gateway for human and agent traffic
REST, SOAP, gRPC, WebSocket, GraphQL — and now LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent. Same audit, same identity, same observability.
Built where regulation lives
Defaults reflect what auditors and regulators actually want to see — BDDK, KVKK, GDPR, PSD2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001.
Picked over the giants
Customers switch to Apinizer from IBM, Broadcom, Kong, and modular OSS stacks.
Each alternative has its place. What we hear from teams that move is the same: fewer license stacks, fewer specialist hires, and a platform that fits regulated operations without three layers of integration.
Replacing
IBM
DataPower · API Connect
60–70% lower 5-year TCO
Replacing
Broadcom
Layer7
55–65% lower 5-year TCO
Replacing
Kong
OSS + Enterprise
Single license, every module included
Replacing
Modular OSS
Tyk · Gravitee · APISIX
No Dashboard / Portal / Cockpit upsell
Trusted by 100+ organizations across banking, government, and defense
- Aselsan
- Havelsan
- Aktif Bank
- Takasbank
- MKK
- Dünya Katılım
- Emlak Katılım
- Ulaştırma Bakanlığı
- Enerji Bakanlığı
How we operate
A small team, a long release line, a local SLA.
Four-month release cadence
Three majors a year. Patches stay on the current major. No surprise rewrites, no end-of-life surprises mid-contract.
Customer-engineered roadmap
Every major release is shaped by the customers who ship on Apinizer — auditors, platform leads, integration architects.
24/7 local enterprise support
The team that ships the platform is the team that picks up the phone. Engineers on call — not a routed contact center.
Keep reading
More on the company.
Talk to us
Walk through the platform with the team that built it.
A 30-minute tour of Manager, Worker, Portal, and AI Gateway on a Kubernetes of your choice.