Infrastructure for
Real-time data & AI
Give AI agents, applications, and services governed access to APIs, Kafka, and enterprise systems through one high-performance, multi-protocol gateway.



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One infrastructure layer for applications and AI
Applications, services, partners, devices, and AI agents increasingly need access to the same enterprise systems. Zilla provides one place to connect them, carry identity, enforce access, and observe traffic across protocols.
Multi-protocol by design
Expose real-time data through the interfaces your systems already use — web, mobile, devices, APIs, and agents over MCP.
Identity and policy at the gateway
Carry user identity through every request, stream, and tool call, so access is authorized, traceable, and accountable.
Configuration instead of middleware
Define what can be shared, who can use it, and how access is enforced, with configuration, not rebuilt application code.
Products
One gateway for real-time data and AI
Zilla mediates the traffic between your consumers and your systems, and governs it in one place. Use it for Kafka, for AI, or for both.
Data Plane



Production infrastructure for AI agents
AI agents are a new class of consumer. They act across systems, on behalf of people, and need hard boundaries. The same gateway that governs access for your apps now governs access for your agents under one identity model and one record.
Turn existing systems into tools
Expose REST, OpenAPI, and Kafka-backed data as agent tools without writing wrapper code.
Govern access per user and tool
Authenticate once, then enforce per-tool roles and TLS with identity carried end-to-end.
Keep tool catalogs manageable
Get metrics per toolkit, tool, and outcome, and scale on a shared store with no agent-side code.

Use Cases
Connect and govern AI agents and real-time systems
Power apps, teams, partners, and AI agents from one governed data plane.


FAQ
Questions, answered.
Zilla Gateway is a stateless, multi-protocol gateway that runs inside your own network. It mediates traffic between your consumers — apps, devices, partners, services, and AI agents — and your systems, and governs that traffic in one place.
The MCP Gateway is a Zilla Gateway configuration that gives AI agents one governed endpoint to reach your APIs, services, and real-time data as tools over MCP — configured, not coded, with identity and per-tool policy enforced at the gateway.
Zilla is made available under the Aklivity Community License. This is an open source-derived license that gives you the freedom to deploy, modify and run Zilla as you see fit, as long as you are not turning into a standalone commercialized “Zilla-as-a-service” offering. Running Zilla in the cloud for your own workloads, production or not, is completely fine.
No. Kafka is one of the things Zilla can connect to, not something it depends on. Zilla works on its own as an MCP and AI gateway in front of the REST APIs, internal services, and SaaS tools you already have. If you do run Kafka, Zilla operationalizes it.
Through one MCP endpoint. The agent authenticates once; the gateway resolves the toolkit it is allowed to see, checks the role for each tool call, propagates identity to the backend, and records the outcome.
Nowhere new. The data plane is stateless and runs in your own network, so payloads never leave your perimeter and are never stored by Aklivity.
Start with the open-source quickstart, or request a demo and we'll map your first governed toolkit with you.

Ready to get started?
Talk to an Aklivity engineer about your AI or real-time data architecture.
Explore pricing
Straightforward, usage-based pricing with no per-connection surprises — start free and scale when you are ready.
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