Lunar FAQs

Question 1

What is Lunar?

Accepted Answer

Lunar is an open-source platform for managing, governing, and optimizing third-party API consumption across applications and AI agent workloads at scale. It acts as a unified API gateway.

Question 2

What are the core features of Lunar?

Accepted Answer

Lunar offers live API traffic visibility, AI-aware policy enforcement, advanced traffic shaping (rate limits, retries), cost optimization, and centralized MCP aggregation.

Question 3

What problems does Lunar solve?

Accepted Answer

Lunar addresses the challenges of managing and optimizing the growing reliance on third-party APIs, especially in AI-driven environments. It helps control costs, improve performance, and enhance security.

Question 4

What are Lunar Proxy and Lunar MCPX?

Accepted Answer

Lunar Proxy is the core API gateway and control layer. Lunar MCPX is a zero-code aggregator for multiple MCP servers, offering unified API access.

Question 5

Is Lunar open source?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Lunar is open-source and free for non-production/personal use. Production environments have advanced features available through platform tiers. Check out lunar.dev for further details.

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