AI Infrastructure, Rebuilt.

The AI Gateway.

Built for inference.

Sub-3ms latency.
Model-aware routing.
Deterministic governance.

288,960req / s
2.64 msp99 latency
1.9×vs APISIX
2.4×vs Kong

AI traffic changed everything.

Long-lived streams.

Sustained concurrency.

Token-based economics.

GPU-bound cost.

Traditional gateways were never designed for this.

REST assumptions don't survive inference scale.

Short requests become minutes of streaming.

Request limits become token governance.

Burst traffic becomes sustained load.

When your gateway adds latency,

your GPUs sit idle.

That's not technical debt.

That's financial waste.

So we rebuilt the gateway.

Thread-per-core

Core-pinned workers. No cross-thread scheduling, no contention.

Shared-nothing data plane

Each worker owns its connections. Zero shared mutable state.

Zero cross-core contention

No DashMap, no mutexes on the hot path. Predictable latency.

No hot-path atomics

Frozen router swapped via ArcSwap. One atomic load per request.

Deterministic latency under real load.

This isn't tuning. It's a different class of infrastructure.

2× Faster.

Than the fastest open-source gateway.

288,960

req/s — plain proxy

2.64ms

p99 latency

285,186

req/s — under stress

1.9× Apache APISIX·2.4× Kong·48× Tyk

Throughput — Plain Proxy · 200 connections

Ando
288,960 req/s
APISIX
155,108 req/s
Kong
125,803 req/s
KrakenD
59,090 req/s
Tyk
6,044 req/s

Higher is better · 30s duration · 4 threads · Apple M4

Throughput — Stress · 500 connections

Ando
285,186 req/s
APISIX
126,601 req/s
Kong
120,237 req/s
KrakenD
50,738 req/s
Tyk
5,338 req/s

Higher is better · 30s duration · 4 threads

Performance isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Service mesh manages services.

Inference engines generate tokens.

AI Gateway governs inference traffic.

Ando sits between users and models — including engines like Ollama and vLLM — enforcing:

Model-aware routing

Token quotas

Cost ceilings

Streaming stability

Ando does not run models.

It governs them.

If you run serious AI traffic,
you need infrastructure built for it.

The AI Gateway.