F5 has introduced enhancements to its F5 AI Gateway and integrated the solution into the F5 AI Security Platform, providing enterprises with a unified control plane for governing AI models, agents, and tools while managing costs as AI usage scales. The update addresses growing governance challenges as organizations move beyond experimentation, with F5 reporting that 77% of organizations now identify inference as their dominant AI activity and manage an average of seven AI models. The enhanced AI Gateway brings together a Model Gateway for model access and cost optimization, an MCP Gateway for agent-to-tool governance, and AI Guardrails for protecting prompts and responses. This provides the AI, Security, and Finance departments with an integrated way of viewing the usage of AI technology.
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“We’re watching enterprises race to deploy AI while struggling to control it,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “Every AI request carries economic, security, and governance implications, yet most organizations are relying on fragmented tools that address only part of the problem. The result is rising costs, increased risk, and operational complexity. F5 AI Gateway, integrated into the F5 AI Security Platform, provides a single control point for managing AI across models, clouds, agents, and applications. We believe every enterprise will need an intelligent control layer for AI. F5 is building that foundation, helping customers accelerate innovation while maintaining visibility, security, and control.” The platform lets companies centrally define budgeting schemes, routing policies, and agent access policies and implement them in a distributed AI infrastructure.