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AI Gateway

An AI gateway is a proxy layer between the AI application and the model/service provider that handles common cross-cutting concerns like rate limiting, logging, auditing, RBAC, and model routing.

An AI gateway acts as the hardened perimeter for agentic systems. Without a gateway, agents interact directly with vendors, which creates security risks. A gateway centralizes observability (logging every request) and security (enforcing API keys or RBAC). It also enables model agility, allowing developers to switch between model providers without changing application-level integration code.

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