API managementplays a central role in enabling applications and digital services to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. WSO2 is empowering software developers to gain new levels of productivity and governance in creating and managing AI APIs with its latest API management offerings: the latest release of its market-leading, open-source WSO2 API Manager software and new Bijira AI API management software as a service (SaaS).
“The system in the last few years has evolved, and the concept of generative AI has emerged, especially in scaled-out computing and the different approaches that have come with it. We are now at a Crossing the Chasm point for intelligence, where many things that were previously impossible are now achievable. AI has come out of its last winter and is now in a major summer, with significant work happening in the space,” said Dr Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder and CEO of WSO2, at his keynote speech at WSO2CON 2025 in Barcelona.
“When looking at an entire digital enterprise architecture, it’s essential to consider how AI fits into that framework. We are actively working on this, as it is a crucial aspect. While we don’t have a specific AI product, as shown in the diagram, it serves as a foundational backplane—an underlying system that enables the creation of AI-driven solutions,” Dr Weerawarana continued.
The newest release of WSO2 API Manager has been rearchitected for AI-driven API governance and compliance, AI API management, multi-gateway management and federation, and extended Kubernetes-native API gateway support, among other features. Bijira significantly expands upon and replaces Choreo for API Management to serve as an AI API management SaaS that brings the latest capabilities of WSO2 API Manager to a robust, proven cloud environment. WSO2 is demonstrating the latest WSO2 API Manager and Bijira offerings and their AI capabilities at WSO2Con 2025, which runs 18-20th March 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.
“Organisations are increasingly modernising their digital API ecosystems to innovate new classes of intelligent applications and services faster while reinforcing best practices,” said Christopher Davey, WSO2 Vice President and General Manager – of API management. “With our rearchitected open-source WSO2 API Manager release and new Bijira AI API management SaaS, we’re helping enterprise software developers to meet their evolving needs by utilising AI-assisted API management while ensuring security, scalability and governance.”
AI-Driven API governance and AI gateway
WSO2 API Manager and Bijira now deliver AI-driven capabilities for automating API governance and creating APIs, as well as more effectively managing AI APIs.
AI-powered, automated API governance: API sprawl and inconsistent governance are major challenges for large organisations. Building on WSO2’s traditional governance capabilities, the new AI Governance feature uses Generative AI to ensure API compliance with organisational policies and industry standards automatically. It interprets documentation, standards and specifications and then scans API designs to find inconsistencies and violations. By reducing the time needed to create and maintain complex rulesets, it enhances scalability and the ability to adapt to evolving compliance needs to ensure a consistent and secure API ecosystem.
Expanded AI gateway: WSO2’s AI Gateway capability (formerly called Egress API Management) provides visibility and control over third-party APIs for AI services and Large Language Models (LLMs). It has now been expanded to include multi-model backend support—becoming one of the first solutions to allow seamless, dynamic routing of AI API requests between OpenAI, Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Mistral models. APIs can intelligently select the best AI model based on cost, availability or performance, optimising response times and reducing expenses. The AI Gateway capability is available with WSO2 gateway runtimes managed by WSO2 API Manager.
AI API design assistant: WSO2 API Manager and Bijira enable faster, more efficient API design by using WSO2 Copilot to enable natural language-based API creation, Swagger user interface visualisation, and interactive refinement for REST, GraphQL and AsyncAPIs.
Centralised control with WSO2 API manager
WSO2 API Manager is WSO2’s comprehensive, industry-leading platform for full lifecycle API management, executing 60 trillion-plus transactions each year. The open-source software maximises deployment flexibility since it can run on-premises, in the cloud, or within a hybrid environment. With this latest release, WSO2 API Manager introduces a componentised architecture that combines centralised control with flexible API gateway management to meet organisations’ evolving needs.
Unified control plane: The new WSO2 API Control Plane (WOS2 ACP) provides a single interface for designers, consumers and operations for visibility of the entire API lifecycle, across all gateways in the ecosystem. This results in enhanced governance, security and overall management capabilities across the API ecosystem. WSO2 ACP complements WSO2 API Manager’s gateways: WSO2 Universal Gateway (formerly WSO2 API Gateway) featuring built-in mediation, WSO2 Kubernetes Gateway (formerly WSO2 API platform for Kubernetes) for Kubernetes-native API management, and WSO2 Immutable Gateway (formerly WSO2 API Microgateway) for offline and edge use cases.
Gateway federation and multi-gateway management:The combination of ACP and an extensive connector architecture enables developers to manage federated third-party gateways, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) API Gateway and Solace, in addition to API gateways from WSO2.
B2B API management with organisation support: WSO2 API Manager enhances its comprehensive role-based access control with hierarchical API access and organisation-specific API policies to manage APIs across B2B scenarios with complex organisational structures and hierarchies. This gives enterprises far greater flexibility in deploying an API management platform that fits the entire business, not the other way around.
Bijira AI API management SaaS
Bijira by WSO2 is a next-generation, AI-native API management solution designed for the cloud-native era. Combining the comprehensive capabilities of WSO2 API Manager and Choreo for API Management, it offers a developer-friendly approach to API lifecycle management, enabling seamless governance, automation and optimisation. At the same time, Bijira goes beyond traditional API SaaS offerings by providing greater flexibility, scalability and innovation to modern enterprises.
WSO2 API manager features in the cloud: Bijira incorporates the API lifecycle management functionality of WSO2 API Manager, including features from the newest release: AI-powered API governance, AI-driven API creation, support for federated gateways and multi-gateway management and B2B API management.
Unified API gateway and data plane control: Like WSO2 API Manager, Bijira provides a unified control plane, enabling organisations to manage APIs across cloud and private data planes, ensuring centralised policy enforcement and streamlined operations.
Robust SaaS environment: Building on Choreo for API Management SaaS technology, Bijira facilitates self-service and delivers the robust functionality organisations expect, including built-in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps support, zero trust security and secret management. Additionally, it offers support for organisations and projects with configurable roles, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployment, and observability and usage insights.
