Lunar.dev

Security for AI Governance Risk ComplianceIdentity Access also known as Lunar, Lunar Run Ltd.

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure.
Founded 2022
Last updated 2026-07-16

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Executive Summary

Lunar.dev sells a self-hosted gateway that governs how a company’s AI agents reach tools, data, and AI models, a pivot from the API cost-management tool it started with in 2022. The company shows almost all of its outside validation on pages it controls: the Gartner listings, the industry awards, and two security-chief testimonials, only HiBob's naming the gateway, all appear on its own site. The independent press coverage, reporting a $6 million seed in 2023, described the older API tool. Its three published case studies describe that same original product. What a buyer can check directly is solid: public documentation, an open-source core, a stated SOC 2 Type II certification, and a free tier for up to 50 users. Watch for a detailed gateway case study to follow the HiBob testimonial.

Sourced Details

Description Lunar.dev sells a self-hosted gateway that governs how enterprise AI agents reach MCP servers, LLM providers, and third-party APIs, with access control, audit trails, and policy enforcement. [f1]
Founded 2022 [f2]
Latest funding $6M seed (November 2023) [f3]

Products

Product What it does
Lunar MCPX Self-hosted MCP gateway that aggregates MCP servers behind one endpoint and applies per-agent access control, OAuth authentication, tool-level policies, and audit logging.
Lunar AI Gateway Self-hosted gateway for LLM traffic that routes calls across model providers with token budget controls, failover, and usage observability.
Lunar Gateway API consumption gateway that manages outbound third-party API traffic with client-side rate limiting, retries, and cost policies.

Matrix Coverage

AI Defense Matrix

GovernIdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain.
AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices.
AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD.
AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic.
AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes.
Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning.
Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history.
AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools.

Lunar MCPX aggregates an enterprise's MCP servers behind one self-hosted endpoint and applies per-agent access control, authentication, and tool hardening to agent traffic. These capabilities are mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f4]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Established 25 /40 Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
Dimension Score
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. 3/5
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 4/5
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 3/5
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 3/5
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 3/5
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 3/5
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 3/5

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Business Risks
Problem & Market
Product Capabilities
Competitive Positioning
Go-to-Market & Traction
Team & Credibility
Trust Readiness
Competitors

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Contested 13 /21 Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure. reinforce or reposition

Dimension Score
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 1/3
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 2/3
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 3/3
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3

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Strategic Market Segmentation
Product Capabilities & AI Advantages
Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market
Pricing Model
Product Delivery & Operations
Earning Customers' Trust
Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning
Team & Execution Capability

Sources

Company Detail Sources (4)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 Lunar.dev homepage: Enterprise MCP Gateway and AI Control Plane official 2026-07-03
f2 Calcalist CTech: Lunar.dev raises $6 million in Seed for its API Consumption Management solution press 2026-07-03
f3 TechCrunch: Lunar.dev wants to help developers take control of third-party API costs (2023-11-09) press 2026-07-03
f4 Lunar MCPX (AI Defense Matrix Catalog) other 2026-07-03
Profile Analysis Sources (16)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Lunar.dev homepage: Enterprise MCP Gateway and AI Control Plane (HiBob CISO testimonial on MCPX, logo wall with Bilt, Elementor, Cycode)
“Lunar.dev is proud to be recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor in both AI Gateways (2024, 2025) and MCP Gateways (2025) categories.”
official 2026-07-03
s2 About Lunar.dev (team and investors, site banner announces the MCP Risk Score Engine beta)
“Proudly backed by Uncork Capital, Angular Ventures, DarkMode Ventures, Irregular Expressions VC, OperAngels, and additional Angel investors.”
official 2026-07-03
s3 Lunar.dev security page (audit export to Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, and S3, plus secret management and the SOC 2 Type II statement)
“Lunar provides the controls required for SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS compliance. Immutable audit trails, identity attribution, PII redaction, and secret management align to common control frameworks. Lunar itself is SOC 2 Type II certified.”
official 2026-07-03
s4 Lunar.dev pricing: Free Plan up to 50 users, Pro Plan up to 100 users, Enterprise Plan custom
“Licensed per seat. Fully self-hosted.”
official 2026-07-03
s5 Lunar Docs: Welcome to Lunar.dev MCPX (Docker quick start, OAuth, audit logs, MCP Evaluation Sandbox, Risk Scoring, OpenAI Agent Builder Integration)
“Lunar.dev MCPX is a lightweight, unified MCP gateway for orchestrating and securing AI agents and applications across multiple MCP servers.”
official 2026-07-03
s6 GitHub API: TheLunarCompany/lunar repository metadata (MIT license, 464 stars, created 2023-08-15, not archived)
“lunar.dev: Agent native MCP Gateway for governance and security”
official 2026-07-03
s7 TechCrunch: Lunar.dev wants to help developers take control of third-party API costs (2023-11-09, eight employees in Tel Aviv and San Francisco)
“The $6 million seed was led by Uncork Capital with participation from Angular Ventures.”
press 2026-07-03
s8 Calcalist CTech: Lunar.dev raises $6 million in Seed for its API Consumption Management solution (Boarding Pass interview, Year of Founding: 2022)
“Roy Gabbay, is the CTO and Co-Founder of Lunar.dev and a seasoned cyber security expert with over 10 years of hands-on experience as a cloud engineer and group manager at cyber security companies, including Check Point.”
press 2026-07-03
s9 Lunar MCPX (AI Defense Matrix Catalog)
“Self-hosted MCP gateway that aggregates MCP servers behind one endpoint and applies per-agent access control, OAuth and API key authentication, and tool hardening.”
other 2026-07-03
s10 Lunar.dev customer case studies (BitDam, HiredScore, and Postscript)
“How Postscript Reduced Thousands of Redundant Retries per second”
official 2026-07-03
s11 Lunar.dev in the news (Gartner Hype Cycle mention, Google Cloud Partner Advantage, Globee and Intellyx awards)
“Lunar.dev is mentioned in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for APIs, 2024 as a sample Vendor.”
official 2026-07-03
s12 Lunar.dev AI Gateway product page
“Lunar.dev’s AI Gateway provides granular controls for all AI-generated API traffic.”
official 2026-07-03
s13 Composio: 10 Best MCP Gateways for Developers in 2026 (rival's roundup naming Lunar.dev MCPX, TrueFoundry, Docker MCP Gateway, Obot, MintMCP)
“Teams needing full data control should look at Docker MCP Gateway and Obot, the top open-source, self-hosted solutions.”
official 2026-07-03
s14 Lunar.dev Terms of Use (legal entity Lunar Run Ltd., site footer lists comparison pages for TrueFoundry, Kong, Runlayer, and Obot)
“These Terms of Use are a binding agreement between Lunar Run Ltd.”
official 2026-07-03
s15 Probe of Lunar.dev trust surfaces via curl on 2026-07-03: trust and security subdomains do not resolve, /trust and /compliance return 404 other 2026-07-03
s16 Nordic APIs: Who Will Take Ownership of API Consumption Management? (contributed article authored by Lunar.dev CEO Eyal Solomon)
“Who Will Take Ownership of API Consumption Management? Posted in Strategy Eyal Solomon December 4, 2024”
official 2026-07-03
Deep-Dive Sources (16)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Lunar.dev homepage: Enterprise MCP Gateway and AI Control Plane (HiBob CISO testimonial on MCPX, logo wall with Bilt, Elementor, Cycode)
“Lunar.dev is proud to be recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor in both AI Gateways (2024, 2025) and MCP Gateways (2025) categories.”
official 2026-07-03
s2 About Lunar.dev (team and investors, site banner announces the MCP Risk Score Engine beta)
“Proudly backed by Uncork Capital, Angular Ventures, DarkMode Ventures, Irregular Expressions VC, OperAngels, and additional Angel investors.”
official 2026-07-03
s3 Lunar.dev security page (audit export to Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, and S3, plus secret management and the SOC 2 Type II statement)
“Lunar provides the controls required for SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS compliance. Immutable audit trails, identity attribution, PII redaction, and secret management align to common control frameworks. Lunar itself is SOC 2 Type II certified.”
official 2026-07-03
s4 Lunar.dev pricing: Free Plan up to 50 users, Pro Plan up to 100 users, Enterprise Plan custom
“Licensed per seat. Fully self-hosted.”
official 2026-07-03
s5 Lunar Docs: Welcome to Lunar.dev MCPX (Docker quick start, OAuth, audit logs, MCP Evaluation Sandbox, Risk Scoring, OpenAI Agent Builder Integration)
“Lunar.dev MCPX is a lightweight, unified MCP gateway for orchestrating and securing AI agents and applications across multiple MCP servers.”
official 2026-07-03
s6 GitHub API: TheLunarCompany/lunar repository metadata (MIT license, 464 stars, created 2023-08-15, not archived)
“lunar.dev: Agent native MCP Gateway for governance and security”
official 2026-07-03
s7 TechCrunch: Lunar.dev wants to help developers take control of third-party API costs (2023-11-09, eight employees in Tel Aviv and San Francisco)
“The $6 million seed was led by Uncork Capital with participation from Angular Ventures.”
press 2026-07-03
s8 Calcalist CTech: Lunar.dev raises $6 million in Seed for its API Consumption Management solution (Boarding Pass interview, Year of Founding: 2022)
“Roy Gabbay, is the CTO and Co-Founder of Lunar.dev and a seasoned cyber security expert with over 10 years of hands-on experience as a cloud engineer and group manager at cyber security companies, including Check Point.”
press 2026-07-03
s9 Lunar MCPX (AI Defense Matrix Catalog)
“Self-hosted MCP gateway that aggregates MCP servers behind one endpoint and applies per-agent access control, OAuth and API key authentication, and tool hardening.”
other 2026-07-03
s10 Lunar.dev customer case studies (BitDam, HiredScore, and Postscript)
“How Postscript Reduced Thousands of Redundant Retries per second”
official 2026-07-03
s11 Lunar.dev in the news (Gartner Hype Cycle mention, Google Cloud Partner Advantage, Globee and Intellyx awards)
“Lunar.dev is mentioned in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for APIs, 2024 as a sample Vendor.”
official 2026-07-03
s12 Lunar.dev AI Gateway product page
“Lunar.dev’s AI Gateway provides granular controls for all AI-generated API traffic.”
official 2026-07-03
s13 Composio: 10 Best MCP Gateways for Developers in 2026 (rival's roundup naming Lunar.dev MCPX, TrueFoundry, Docker MCP Gateway, Obot, MintMCP)
“Teams needing full data control should look at Docker MCP Gateway and Obot, the top open-source, self-hosted solutions.”
other 2026-07-03
s14 Lunar.dev Terms of Use (legal entity Lunar Run Ltd., site footer lists comparison pages for TrueFoundry, Kong, Runlayer, and Obot)
“These Terms of Use are a binding agreement between Lunar Run Ltd.”
official 2026-07-03
s15 Probe of Lunar.dev trust surfaces, re-run 2026-07-16: trust and security subdomains NXDOMAIN, /trust and /compliance return 404, no inspectable portal reachable other 2026-07-16
s16 Nordic APIs: Who Will Take Ownership of API Consumption Management? (contributed article authored by Lunar.dev CEO Eyal Solomon)
“Who Will Take Ownership of API Consumption Management? Posted in Strategy Eyal Solomon December 4, 2024”
other 2026-07-03

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