In response to the unchecked expansion of artificial intelligence into the business world, A10 Networks has released the A10 AI Gateway, which is now available to the general public. The A10 AI Gateway is an intelligent control plane that is used to consolidate routing, cost management, and security in all enterprise AI agents, applications, and large language models (LLMs).
The A10 AI Gateway has been unveiled at the Black Hat USA event in Las Vegas and is part of A10 Networks’ overall AI security ecosystem, which includes the TrojAI by A10 Networks platform. It helps address the chaotic situation created when different teams incorporate AI models into the workflow without proper coordination.
The Challenge: Unchecked AI Expansion and Escalating Costs
With businesses competing to embed AI capabilities within their applications, CIOs and CSOs have a lot on their plate. In the absence of a centralized control layer, the problem manifests itself through:
- Lack of Visibility: No way to know which particular LLMs or agents are calling APIs.
- Costly Uncertainty: Excessive consumption of API tokens resulting in unforeseen cloud computing charges.
- No Governance: Challenges related to compliance, access, and data sovereignty for siloed workloads.
The A10 AI Gateway solves this problem by centralizing all AI interactions in a fully managed control layer.
UNIFIED ENTERPRISE AI CONTROL PLANE
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Enterprise Developers & Teams
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A10 AI GATEWAY
Identity-Based Access Dynamic Smart Route Cost & Token
(Directory Synced) (Reasoning Engine) Budget Tracking
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Lightweight LLMs Mid-Tier Models Frontier LLMs
(Cost-Efficient) (Standard Tasks) (High-Reasoning)
Moving Beyond Metering: Key Architectural Features
Unlike legacy first-generation gateways that focus strictly on API rate limiting and basic token counting, the A10 AI Gateway introduces context-aware execution and governance capabilities:
1. Identity-Based Access Management
Organizations can enforce granular routing and access policies grounded in individual user profiles and departmental roles (e.g., differentiating access between financial analytics and software engineering teams). The platform integrates natively with local enterprise directory services.
2. Intelligent Smart Routing
Moving away from static routing rules, the gateway evaluates the underlying complexity and intent of each prompt. It dynamically directs straightforward tasks to lightweight, cost-effective models while reserving resource-heavy, high-reasoning tasks for frontier models maximizing compute efficiency and lowering operational expenses.
3. Centralized Cost Governance & Rate Limiting
The control plane offers real-time visibility into per-request dollar expenditures. Administrators can establish token budgets per team or API key complete with configurable soft-limit alerts and hard enforcement boundaries alongside business-layer rate limiting (Tokens Per Minute / Requests Per Minute).
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Sovereign Deployment Model and Full Lifecycle Security
A critical differentiator of the A10 AI Gateway is its operational architecture. Delivered as software or integrated hardware, the gateway runs entirely within the customer’s private infrastructure whether on-premises, in a private cloud, or in air-gapped environments.
By avoiding cloud-hosted or edge-bound relay reliance, the solution ensures absolute data sovereignty, keeping sensitive prompts, enterprise data, and governance policies internal.
The gateway forms an integral part of A10’s end-to-end security framework alongside TrojAI and ThreatX solutions securing AI models across their lifecycle through pre-deployment testing, runtime defense, and network-layer enforcement.
Executive Commentary
“Enterprises are being asked to move fast on AI and stay in control at the same time. AI use is spreading faster than teams can discover, govern, or secure it, driving up cost and leaving no single place to set the rules. The A10 AI Gateway gives organizations one intelligent control plane to see how AI is being used, to govern who can access which models, and match every request to the right model at the right cost. Our integrated portfolio gives customers a complete, sovereign way to put AI to work at scale. That is how enterprises adopt AI with confidence instead of trading speed for control,” said Dhrupad Trivedi, president and CEO, A10 Networks.
Market Availability
The A10 AI Gateway is available globally immediately. Organizations can deploy the platform within existing enterprise environments to gain immediate control over AI application traffic and model spend.
