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Apigee pricing
Apigee publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $500/monthly
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Apigee plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $500/monthly | 3 | Entry tier |
| Professional | $2500/monthly | 3 | +$2000/monthly, 3 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Starter
$500/monthlyThe entry tier. It covers api gateway, analytics, developer portal.
Professional
$2500/monthlyOver Starter, this tier adds:
- Advanced security
- Traffic management
- Monetization
Enterprise
On requestOver Professional, this tier adds:
- Custom deployment
- SLA
- Dedicated support
What the product covers
The full Apigee feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- API Gateway
- API Analytics
- Developer Portal
Integrations
- Google Cloud services
- Azure
- AWS
- Okta
Platform
- Cloud support
- Hybrid support
- On-premises support
People bring Apigee in for publishing, securing and versioning apis for an enterprise api program, monetizing apis and running a developer portal, analyzing api traffic and defending apis against bots and abuse. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apigee are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in API Management
Across the 4 api management tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $757.5/month. Apigee starts at $500/monthly, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apigee (this page) | $500/monthly | subscription | - | |
| Backendless | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Apigee |
| Asyncapi | Free | open-source | - | vs Apigee |
| Akana | $2500/monthly | subscription | - | vs Apigee |
| Boomi API Management | $1500/monthly | subscription | - | vs Apigee |
| AWS API Gateway | Free | usage-based | - | vs Apigee |
| Appwrite | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Apigee |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Apigee badges page.
Before you pay for Apigee
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $500/monthly and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Apigee against the tools that do have one before committing.
Apigee runs on cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and is published by Google Cloud of Mountain View, California, USA. The full record is on the Apigee review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.
Apigee pricing questions
- How much does Apigee cost?
- Apigee publishes 3 tiers, from $500/monthly for Starter up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $500/monthly.
- Does Apigee have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Apigee is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Starter and Professional on Apigee?
- Professional costs $2500/monthly against $500/monthly, and adds advanced security, traffic management, monetization.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Apigee worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom deployment, sla, dedicated support. It costs On request against $500/monthly for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Apigee expensive for a api management tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 api management tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $757.5/month; Apigee starts at $500/monthly.
- Which api management tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 7 api management tools listed alongside Apigee have a free tier: Backendless, Asyncapi, AWS API Gateway, Appwrite, Microsoft Azure API Management.
- What am I actually paying for with Apigee?
- The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for publishing, securing and versioning apis for an enterprise api program, monetizing apis and running a developer portal, analyzing api traffic and defending apis against bots and abuse.
- Does Apigee charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Apigee prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Apigee against before paying?
- The closest api management tools in this directory are Backendless, Asyncapi, Akana, Boomi API Management. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Apigee covering price, platforms and features.