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Should I Use Zuplo?

zuplo.com·Analyzed 23 hours ago·9/18/2026·Based on 12 sources

Secure, govern, and observe every API, LLM, and MCP call on one programmable policy engine.

Depends

Buy if you're a developer-led team securing, rate-limiting, or monetizing public APIs, LLM, or MCP traffic on a managed gateway.

Developer-loved managed API gateway (4.8/5 G2). Great for shipping/monetizing public APIs — overkill for internal-only services.

Confidence: Medium

4.8/5

G2 rating

41 reviews

Yes

Free tier

$0/month

$9M

Funding

Seed, 2023

Gartner Peer Insights

in-depth reviews

Value for money

Free tier, usage-based; pitched cheaper than Apigee

Ease of use

Reviewers praise fast setup and docs

Feature depth

Programmable policies, MCP/AI gateway, GitOps

Security posture

Published trust center; only docs-tool dependency CVE

Pros

Rated 4.8/5 on G2 across 41 reviews^¹
Reviewers report fast setup and excellent documentation^⁴
One gateway covers APIs, LLM, and MCP traffic¹²
Free tier lets you run an API at $0^⁹
GitOps workflow for managing gateway changes

Cons

Managed cloud only — no self-hosted open-source option
Billing keyed to monthly request volume^⁷
Small review base: 41 G2 reviews vs thousands for incumbents^¹
Seed-stage vendor versus entrenched gateway incumbents^⁸
Dependency CVE affected Zuplo's open-source Zudoku docs framework¹⁰

Gotchas

mediumPricing scales on monthly requests; high-traffic APIs can get expensive fast^⁷
mediumManaged-only platform: expect lock-in on routing config and custom policies
mediumSeed-stage company; vet long-term support and SLAs before enterprise commitment^⁸
lowCVE-2025-7783 hit a form-data dependency in Zudoku docs tool; gateway core unaffected¹⁰

Best for

Developer-led teams shipping public APIs
API monetization and paywall use cases
Securing LLM/MCP agent traffic
Supabase/Next.js indie SaaS backends

Not for

Internal-only apps with a few endpoints — middleware or a reverse proxy is enough
Enterprises needing self-hosted or on-prem gateways
Non-technical teams — configuration is real developer work
Buyers who need thousands of independent reviews to de-risk the choice

Companies that use it

Blockdaemon

Pricing

Free

$0/month

Run an API for free
Core gateway policies

Builder

Usage-based (not published)

Billed on monthly requests
For production APIs

Enterprise

Not disclosed

Larger orgs
Contact sales

Security

No known CVEs in the core gateway; CVE-2025-7783 affected a dependency in Zuplo's open-source Zudoku docs framework.

CVE-2025-7783 in form-data dependency (Zudoku)Predictable multipart boundary vulnerability tracked in Zuplo's open-source Zudoku docs tooling repo, not the gateway product itself.¹⁰