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Features

Basic Gateway features are available with a standard Gloo Mesh Enterprise license. To use advanced gateway features, purchase a Gloo Mesh Gateway license. When you install Gloo Mesh, use this gateway license instead of a standard Gloo Mesh Enterprise license.

For a comparison of the features you get with a Gloo Mesh Gateway license versus a standard Gloo Mesh Enterprise license or the open source, basic version of an Istio ingress gateway, see the following table.

Feature	Gloo Mesh Gateway license	Gloo Mesh Enterprise standard license	Istio ingress
Proxy external traffic to mesh workloads	✅	✅	✅
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)	✅	✅	✅
TLS termination	✅	✅	✅
mTLS	✅	✅	✅
Header manipulation	✅	✅	✅
Retries, redirects, timeouts, and fault injection	✅	✅	✅
API developer portal	✅	✅	❌
Automatic service and API discovery	✅	✅	❌
Federation	✅	✅	❌
Advanced rate limiting	✅	❌	❌
Advanced security including WAF and DLP	✅	❌	❌
Advanced external authentication for OIDC, OPA, API keys, and LDAP	✅	❌	❌
Request and response SOAP transformation	✅	❌	❌
Advanced traffic routing and shaping, such as direct responses and route delegation	✅	❌	❌