aid: lunar
name: Lunar
description: >-
  Lunar is an enterprise-grade API management and AI control plane platform
  that provides a unified gateway for managing API traffic policies, rate
  limiting, quota enforcement, and API monetization across gateways. The
  platform combines an API consumption gateway with an MCP (Model Context
  Protocol) gateway to govern, secure, and observe interactions between AI
  agents, APIs, and data sources. Lunar delivers real-time visibility into
  model, API, and tool invocations alongside policy-based enforcement, cost
  controls, and advanced traffic shaping including retries, priority queues,
  and circuit breakers.
type: Index
image: >-
  https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lunar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - API Management
  - API Gateway
  - AI Gateway
  - MCP Gateway
  - Rate Limiting
  - Quota Enforcement
  - API Monetization
  - Traffic Management
  - API Governance
  - Cost Controls
  - Observability
apis:
  - aid: lunar:api-consumption-gateway
    name: Lunar API Consumption Gateway
    description: >-
      The Lunar API Consumption Gateway is a proxy-based infrastructure layer
      that routes outbound HTTP/HTTPS API traffic through configurable YAML-based
      flows. It enforces rate limits, quota policies, priority queues, circuit
      breakers, and endpoint access controls without requiring code changes in
      consuming applications. Requests are routed by setting x-lunar-scheme,
      x-lunar-host, and x-lunar-consumer-tag headers and targeting the gateway
      on port 8000.
    humanURL: https://docs.lunar.dev/api-gateway/get-started/welcome-to-lunar/
    baseURL: https://app.lunar.dev
    tags:
      - API Gateway
      - Traffic Management
      - Rate Limiting
      - Quota Enforcement
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lunar.dev/api-gateway/get-started/welcome-to-lunar/
      - type: QuickStart
        url: >-
          https://docs.lunar.dev/api-gateway/installation-overview/quick-start/quick-start-with-terminal/
      - type: ControlPlane
        url: https://docs.lunar.dev/api-gateway/installation-overview/quick-start/quick-start-with-control-plane/
  - aid: lunar:mcpx-gateway
    name: Lunar MCPX Gateway
    description: >-
      The Lunar MCPX Gateway is an agent-native Model Context Protocol gateway
      that governs tool invocation for AI agents. It consolidates multiple MCP
      servers into a single endpoint, providing authentication, scoped
      permissions, secret forwarding, audit trails, and risk evaluation for
      AI agent workloads. The MCPX gateway supports role-based access control,
      tool groups, tool customization, and remote MCP authentication.
    humanURL: https://www.lunar.dev/product/ai-gateway
    baseURL: https://app.lunar.dev
    tags:
      - MCP Gateway
      - AI Governance
      - Agent Security
      - Tool Access Control
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lunar.dev/
      - type: ProductPage
        url: https://www.lunar.dev/product/ai-gateway
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.lunar.dev/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lunar.dev/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/TheLunarCompany
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/TheLunarCompany/lunar
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://linkedin.com/company/lunar-api
  - type: X
    url: https://twitter.com/_lunardev
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.lunar.dev/lunar-blog
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.lunar.dev/pricing
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://app.lunar.dev
  - type: Discord
    url: https://discord.gg/T2VvD3hpxD
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@LunarDev-api/videos
  - type: News
    url: https://www.lunar.dev/in-the-news
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/lunar-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/lunar-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/lunar-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com