Choose an AISIX AI Gateway Product
All three AISIX AI Gateway products run the same gateway in your infrastructure. Applications send requests to the gateway, which contacts model providers without routing live traffic through a control plane. Choose among the products based on how you want to manage gateway resources and who should operate the control plane. Applications keep the same gateway endpoint conventions when you change products.
Compare the Products
| Product | Control plane | Who operates the gateway | Start here |
|---|---|---|---|
| AISIX OSS | None | You | Get Started with AISIX OSS |
| AISIX Enterprise | Customer-hosted | You | Get Started with AISIX Enterprise |
| AISIX Cloud | API7-hosted | You | Get Started with AISIX Cloud |
AISIX Enterprise and AISIX Cloud use the same control-plane implementation and share core dashboard workflows and a core resource model. Product-specific pages identify differences in supported APIs and behavior.
Find the Right Section
The AISIX Enterprise & Cloud section covers centralized control-plane workflows. Most pages there apply to both products. When an operation exists in only one product, the page opening states that boundary and explains the other product's behavior.
The capability sections from Endpoints through Observability primarily describe the shared AISIX gateway runtime. The same gateway serves traffic in all three products, but configuration and management steps can differ. Each task's opening and prerequisites identify whether to use AISIX OSS resources or an AISIX Enterprise or AISIX Cloud control plane.
Deployment and Operations separates customer-operated control-plane work under AISIX Enterprise Control Plane from runtime work under AISIX Gateway Operations. Gateway operations apply to AISIX OSS and to gateways connected to AISIX Enterprise or AISIX Cloud unless a page states a narrower scope.
AISIX OSS
With AISIX OSS, you operate the Apache-2.0 gateway directly. Declare provider keys, models, caller API keys, and policies in a resources.yaml file, or use your own etcd automation for a multi-replica deployment.
Choose AISIX OSS when you want direct, declarative operation and will provide your own management, identity, usage, and governance systems.
AISIX Enterprise
AISIX Enterprise adds a control plane and dashboard that you deploy in your infrastructure. You operate the complete product: control-plane services, data stores, and AISIX gateways.
Choose AISIX Enterprise when data residency, network isolation, compliance, or air-gap requirements require customer-hosted management. The product supports centralized resource management, organizations, members, usage reporting, budgets, and audit history.
AISIX Cloud
AISIX Cloud provides an API7-hosted control plane and dashboard. You operate AISIX gateways in your infrastructure and connect them to the API7-hosted control plane for configuration delivery, governance, usage reporting, and fleet visibility.
Choose AISIX Cloud when you want centralized management without operating the control plane. AISIX Cloud is not currently available through public self-service registration. Contact API7 to request access or a demo. It is also available through AWS Marketplace.
Compare Management Capabilities
| Area | AISIX OSS | AISIX Enterprise | AISIX Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource management | Declarative resources file or customer-operated etcd automation | Dashboard and AISIX Cloud Admin API | Dashboard and AISIX Cloud Admin API |
| Organization and access | Integrate your own systems | Organizations, environments, members, teams, and roles | Organizations, environments, members, teams, and roles |
| Credential lifecycle | Manage credentials through your configuration and secret systems | Encrypted provider secrets and managed caller API key lifecycles | Encrypted provider secrets and managed caller API key lifecycles |
| Gateway connection and visibility | Deploy, secure, monitor, and upgrade gateways with your own tooling | Control-plane certificates, registration, configuration delivery, heartbeats, and status visibility | Control-plane certificates, registration, configuration delivery, heartbeats, and status visibility |
| Usage and governance | Export logs, metrics, and usage events | Centralized usage, model pricing, budgets, and audit history | Centralized usage, model pricing, budgets, and audit history |
| Operations | Operate gateways | Operate the control plane and gateways | Operate gateways; API7 operates the control plane |
Shared capabilities can have product-specific limits or workflows. Follow the availability notes on each page.
Supported Platforms
AISIX gateway and control-plane container images are published for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes select the matching image from the multi-architecture manifest.
The AISIX Enterprise offline package bundles its images and is published separately for each architecture. See Install in an Air-Gapped Environment.
Linux is the only supported operating system for production. AISIX components do not require a GPU.
Plan a Migration
AISIX uses the same gateway runtime and proxy API across all three products, but its management path changes. AISIX OSS loads resources directly from a file or etcd. AISIX Enterprise and AISIX Cloud project resources from their control planes.
Plan to recreate or migrate management resources when moving between products. Do not treat the change as only a startup-configuration switch.