Open Source · MIT Licensed

The API Gateway
Built for AI

Rioku is an open-source API gateway with no feature paywalls.
Route, protect, and observe your AI & agentic workloads at any scale.

Quick start
# Route an OpenAI-compatible request through Rioku
curl -X POST https://api.yourgateway.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RIOKU_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
    "stream": true
  }'
100% Open Source
$0 Feature Paywalls
<1ms Added Latency
MIT Licensed

Everything you need.
Nothing held back.

Every feature in Rioku is available to every user, forever. No enterprise tiers, no upgrade prompts.

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Zero Feature Paywalls

Every capability is available to every user. No enterprise tiers, no locked features — just the full API gateway, open and free.

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Built for AI Workloads

Native support for streaming, long-lived connections, and token-based rate limiting designed for LLM APIs and agentic pipelines.

High-Performance Routing

Blazing-fast request routing with sub-millisecond overhead. Handle thousands of concurrent AI agent calls without breaking a sweat.

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Plugin Ecosystem

Extend Rioku with a rich plugin API. Auth, rate limiting, caching, observability — compose exactly what your stack needs.

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Full Observability

Built-in metrics, distributed tracing, and structured logging. See every request flowing through your gateway in real time.

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Secure by Default

mTLS, JWT validation, API key management, and fine-grained access control out of the box — no security theatre.

Designed for
agentic workloads

Rioku sits in front of your AI providers and services, giving you a single control plane for all your AI traffic.

🤖 AI Agents
Rioku Gateway
Auth Rate limit Cache Observe
🌐 AI Providers
OpenAI Anthropic Ollama
01

Deploy Rioku

Run Rioku on your own infrastructure with a single Docker command or Kubernetes Helm chart.

02

Point your agents

Update your AI client base URL to route through Rioku. It's OpenAI-API compatible — no code changes needed.

03

Control & observe

Set rate limits, add authentication, inspect logs, and gain full visibility into every token that flows through your system.

Ready to take control
of your AI traffic?

Rioku is free, open-source, and ready to deploy. No sign-up required.