SatGate — AI search visibility
An 'economic firewall' gateway that sits in front of AI-agent API calls and MCP tool calls to enforce spending budgets, capability tokens (macaroons) with delegation/revocation, and Lightning/L402 micropayments -- open-core (Apache-2.0 SDK) with a commercial hosted dashboard: Starter, Pro $99/mo, and custom/self-host Enterprise, 14-day free trial, no credit card required. · satgate.io
Cited in 1 of 9 buyer queries
Rank 29 of 101 on the index · checked 2026-10-01 · every row below is a measured result, not an estimate
THE QUERIES, AND WHO GETS NAMED INSTEAD
| Buyer query | SatGate | Named instead |
|---|---|---|
| how do I limit how much money an AI agent can spend on API calls | Not cited | Requesty, Arcjet, Locus, Chimoney |
| AI agent budget enforcement gateway — per-agent spending limits | Cited | Bifrost, Waxell, Alephant, SatGate, satgate.io/blog, satgate.io/ai-agent-cost-control |
| L402 Lightning micropayments for AI agents, pay per API call | Not cited | Lightning Labs, Hermes Agent |
| macaroon capability tokens, delegation, AI agent authorization | Not cited | agentauth, Ory Talos, CAPMAS, github.com/SatGate-io/satgate/pull/169 |
| best MCP gateway for tool access control and permissions | Not cited | Bifrost, Arcade, agentgateway, Kong AI Gateway, MintMCP |
| alternatives to Portkey AI gateway, cost control | Not cited | LiteLLM, OpenRouter, Helicone, TrueFoundry, Merge Gateway, Cloudflare AI Gateway |
| how to revoke an AI agent's API access and credentials instantly | Not cited | AxioRank, Wiplash, WorkOS, Datawiza, Naive |
| MCP server authentication and authorization best practices | Not cited | Descope, Portkey, RTS Labs, Red Hat, Obot |
| open-source self-hosted LLM gateway with per-agent spend caps, Apache licence | Not cited | Bifrost, LiteLLM, Open LLM Gateway |
| *control: SatGate* | Cited | satgate.io/compare |
Method: queries are phrased the way a buyer would ask, run against live AI answer engines on the date shown. “Cited” means the answer named SatGate or drew on its site as a source. The full audit behind this page also records every source domain per query.
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