Guides
One page per question, with the direct answer first and the numbers we measured ourselves. Each guide is dated, signed and revised when the facts change.
Vendors price MCP gateways in four ways: open source that you host yourself, a price for each user, a price for each organization, and a price for each tool call. This guide lists the published prices of ten products on 6 October 2026. It calculates the cost for a team of 25 people. It also names the costs that are not on any price list.
MCP servers do not speak SAML or SCIM. A gateway in front of them does. This guide shows the four parts of the setup and the steps in Gatana. It also shows what nine gateway vendors publish about SAML, OIDC and SCIM support as of October 2026.
Agents write logs on laptops. MCP servers see tokens, and not people. Only a gateway can make one record for each tool call with the person behind it. This guide shows what a record must contain. It also shows how to stream the records to Splunk, Falcon LogScale, Elastic or Sentinel, and what the delivery guarantees are.
An MCP gateway holds three kinds of sensitive data: stored credentials, the content of tool calls, and the audit trail. This guide shows where Gatana Cloud processes each kind. It also shows which sub-processors touch the data, what crosses the EU border, and how to keep all of the data inside your own network.
Not every system has an MCP server or an OpenAPI specification. A gateway that hosts code lets you write a function and expose it as a tool. This guide shows the three ways to do it. It also shows how Runnable Code servers work in Gatana and the limits to know before you select a method.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and most coding agents read the same SKILL.md format, but from different folders on each machine. This guide shows where each agent reads skills. It also shows how to share one set of skills in a team with a git repository or a registry, and how to keep every machine current.
An MCP gateway is one server between your AI agents and the MCP servers, APIs and functions that they call. It handles identity, credentials, access rules and audit for all of them. This guide explains what a gateway does and when a team needs one. It also gives the cost in latency and tokens, and how the options differ.