A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) has announced the forthcoming availability of the A10 AI Gateway, an intelligent control plane engineered to centralize the management of AI operations across organizations. The solution is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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The A10 AI Gateway is designed to provide unified routing, cost management, and governance for AI agents, applications, and large language models (LLMs) utilized by enterprises. Its objective is to offer consolidated visibility into AI usage, optimize expenditures, streamline access controls, and enhance security, thereby supporting more efficient and secure AI adoption.
As AI proliferation accelerates within organizations, embedding AI agents and generative AI capabilities into business applications is becoming commonplace. However, the increasing use of multiple AI providers and models complicates efforts to track model usage, associated costs, and ensure adequate governance and security protocols are in place. Furthermore, the diverse nature of AI requests—from basic processing to advanced reasoning workloads—necessitates a management platform capable of optimizing AI performance, reducing latency, and controlling costs.
To address these challenges, the A10 AI Gateway aims to consolidate AI usage across an organization into a single management platform, fostering an environment for efficient and secure AI operations.
A10: Functionality and Key Features
The intelligent control plane facilitates the selection of appropriate AI models based on individual request content and applicable usage policies. It centralizes visibility into AI usage and costs, intending to optimize performance, manage expenses, bolster security, and enforce governance. This empowers developers and users with access to suitable AI models for their specific requirements.
Key features of the A10 AI Gateway include:
Identity-based AI Access: The system synchronizes with existing local directory services, enabling access and routing policies to be applied per user or group. This allows for differentiated AI model access and usage policies, for instance, between engineering and finance departments.
Smart Routing: Beyond conventional static routing, the A10 AI Gateway evaluates the complexity and type of each request. It automatically routes simpler tasks to more cost-efficient models and directs tasks requiring advanced reasoning to more capable models.
Centralized Traffic and Cost Management: As a central control plane, the gateway offers real-time, per-request cost tracking in monetary terms, alongside per-model and per-team token budget management, including hard limits and soft-limit alerts. It also provides usage controls (TPM/RPM) by key or team, centralizing visibility into AI usage and expenditures to support effective governance.
Integration with AI Security Portfolio: The A10 AI Gateway complements A10’s existing AI security offerings, such as TrojAI, A10 AI Firewall, and ThreatX. This integration supports security throughout the AI lifecycle, encompassing pre-deployment testing, runtime protection, and controls at the network and API layers.
Flexible Deployment: The solution is available as standalone software or with integrated hardware, capable of running entirely within the customer’s environment. This includes on-premises, private cloud, and air-gapped deployments, allowing organizations to maintain control over models, data, and policies, thereby preserving data sovereignty—a competitive advantage over purely cloud-hosted or edge-bound solutions.
Executive Commentary
Dhrupad Trivedi, president and CEO of A10 Networks (https://www.a10networks.com/), commented on the launch: “The A10 AI Gateway provides organizations with an intelligent control plane to oversee AI usage, govern access to models, and align each request with the appropriate model at an optimal cost. Our integrated portfolio offers customers a comprehensive and sovereign method for scaling AI, enabling enterprises to adopt AI with confidence.”
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