# Stacklok Reviews
**Vendor:** Stacklok  
**Category:** [AI Gateways Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/ai-gateways)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Stacklok
Stacklok offers a self-hosted, Kubernetes-native platform for AI agent hosting and governance. Stacklok helps leaders across functions deepen AI agent adoption by their teams. At our customers, Engineering leaders are surfacing new measures of AI impact, HR leaders are shifting time from low-value operations to high-impact people programs, and Finance leaders are closing quarters in a fraction of the time. That's because we're connecting their AI agents to their sensitive business data and systems, so they're more powerful and better governed. And our Applied AI Engineers embed with customers at every step, ensuring they achieve their business objectives and use AI agents as a competitive advantage. In a market with a lot of hype, Stacklok is proving it understands real enterprise requirements. Our CEO, Craig McLuckie and CTO, Joe Beda were co-creators of Kubernetes and co-founders of Heptio. We are maintainers of the official Model Context Protocol registry. Our own popular open source MCP platform, ToolHive, has external maintainers and a growing community of contributors. And our platform is trusted to run AI agents in production at multiple Global 2000 enterprises.




## Stacklok Reviews
  ### 1. Toolhive’s Registry Makes MCP Server Orchestration Simple

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2026

**What do you like best about Stacklok?**

I currently use the Toolhive solution to orchestrate MCP server connections on my device. The registry feature makes it easy to register different AI agents and helps Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code discover them. I also count on an interface that greatly simplifies the management and discovery of MCP servers through a dedicated registry. The overall performance is good, it is an open source solution that we can contribute and also receive support from the community with no charges. Really great solution.

**What do you dislike about Stacklok?**

I really appreciate Stacklok and their team, but I do think that the MCP protocol is still not entirely designed to facilitate the integration for users that are less technical. I believe that with the enhancement of Toolhive UI some of these challenges would be solved.

**What problems is Stacklok solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Toolhive auto register the AI agents that I use and make it easy to discover and run new MCP servers through the custom register.

  ### 2. Open-Source AI Tooling That Enables MCP

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2026

**What do you like best about Stacklok?**

The open source parts on AI tooling as an enabler of mcp

**What do you dislike about Stacklok?**

The lack of specialised solutions ready to make use of

**What problems is Stacklok solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The easy and secure way to make use and deploy mcp servers



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## Stacklok Integrations
  - [Atlassian Atlas](https://www.g2.com/products/atlassian-atlas/reviews)
  - [Cursor.sh](https://www.g2.com/products/cursor-sh/reviews)

## Stacklok Features
**Traffic Management & Performance - AI Gateways**
- Token-Aware Rate Limiting
- Semantic Caching
- Multi-Model Routing & Fallbacks

**Governance & Observability - AI Gateways**
- Data Privacy
- Cost Tracking
- Centralized API Key Security

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