Gubernator
What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok actually say · July 2026
The verdict
Gubernator appears in 1 AI-ranked category.
Mailgun's open-source distributed limiter earns the last spot for a real architectural niche: peer-to-peer coordination with no Redis or external datastore, batching and ownership-hashing that keep p99 decisions in microseconds locally, gRPC/HTTP APIs from any language — the best fit when you need high-throughput limiting without adding a stateful dependency.
Where Gubernator falls short, per the models
- Claude Small community and slow release cadence relative to the others; counters are lost on pod churn since state is in-memory, so it suits protective throttling, not billing-grade quota enforcement.
Top alternatives per the models: Envoy Rate Limit · Kong Gateway · Cloudflare Rate Limiting · Upstash Ratelimit
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