Current name
GA
Unity Gateway
Unity Gateway is the current Databricks name, previously Unity AI Gateway (since September 2026).
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Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog: the control plane over the models, MCP servers, agents, and tools an organization uses, setting permissions, rate limits, spend limits, payload logging, and safety guardrails on every request.
- The "AI" fell out of the name but not out of the address - the docs still live at /ai-gateway/, under a page now titled "AI governance with Unity Gateway".
- The rename was applied backwards through the archive - the August 4, 2026 release note now reads "Unity Gateway is now generally available", while the blog post published that same day is still titled "Unity AI Gateway is Generally Available".
- It is big enough to have its own release-notes page apart from the platform notes, which introduces it as the enterprise control plane for governing AI cost, security, and access.
- Category
- AI / ML
- Also known as
- Gateway, Unity Catalog gateway
- Verified
- 2026-09-06
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs
- Official Databricks docs: Unity Gateway release notes
- Official Databricks release notes: the first month written under the Unity Gateway name (September 2026)
- Official Databricks Blog: the August 4, 2026 GA post, still under the previous name
- Official Databricks product page: Unity Gateway - Multi-AI governance and cost control
- Official Databricks Developer portal: still titled Unity AI Gateway after the docs rename (as of September 6, 2026)