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A load balancer distributes traffic across servers, keeping things fault-tolerant and scalable without inspecting request content. An API gateway inspects each request (headers, tokens, body) to control security and routing, deciding what reaches your backend and how. Check out our guide to discover the differences between an API gateway vs. Load balancer.

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