Identity & Integration
Exogram vs MuleSoft / API Gateways
“Rate limiting is not action validation.”
What MuleSoft / API Gateways Does
- •API Gateways provide rate limiting, routing, and schema validation for API endpoints.
- •Connects disparate enterprise systems together via standard protocols.
- •Protects APIs from volumetric attacks (DDoS) and malformed requests.
- •Agonstic to the actual business logic of a properly formatted request.
What Exogram Does
- ▸API Gateways check the Format and Frequency of a request. Exogram checks the Intent and Admissibility of an action.
- ▸A perfectly formed, rate-limited request can still be destructive if an AI agent hallucinates a valid but harmful action.
- ▸Exogram provides semantic and deterministic action evaluation at the execution layer, halting logical anomalies.
Key Differences
| Dimension | MuleSoft / API Gateways | Exogram |
|---|---|---|
| Validation Level | Format, Schema, Frequency | Semantic Intent, Admissibility, Policy |
| Hallucination Defense | None | Blocks contextually invalid actions |
The Verdict
Use MuleSoft to manage your API lifecycle and volume. Use Exogram to govern what AI agents intelligently do through those APIs.
Is MuleSoft / API Gateways vulnerable to execution drift?
Run a static analysis on your LLM pipeline below.
STATIC ANALYSIS
Frequently Asked Questions
Don't API Gateways have JSON schema validation?
Yes, but schema validation only confirms the request types match expectations (e.g., string vs integer). It cannot verify if it makes logical business sense for an AI agent to execute that specific mutation at that specific time. Exogram does.