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Apollo GraphQL pricing
Apollo GraphQL publishes 4 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
- Free, then $5/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Apollo GraphQL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Developer | $5/month | 4 | +$5/month, 4 more features |
| Standard | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | 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.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers up to 3 developers, 1-day data retention, community support, self-hosted router limited to 60 req/min.
Developer
$5/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- $5 per million requests with volume discounts
- $50 usage credit for new signups
- Up to 10 developers
- 7-day data retention
Standard
On requestOver Developer, this tier adds:
- Up to 30 developers
- 90-day data retention
- Standard support with SLA
- Advanced federation and schema management
Enterprise
On requestOver Standard, this tier adds:
- Unlimited developers
- 18-month data retention
- 24x7x365 support with SLA
- Professional services available
Where Apollo GraphQL stops being free
Free, Free
- Up to 3 developers
- 1-day data retention
- Community support
- Self-hosted router limited to 60 req/min
Developer, $5/month
The first thing you pay for:
- $5 per million requests with volume discounts
- $50 usage credit for new signups
- Up to 10 developers
- 7-day data retention
What the product covers
The full Apollo GraphQL 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.
integration
- Apollo Connectors
core
- GraphOS Router
- Schema registry
- Schema checks
analytics
- Response caching
security
- Audit logging
People bring Apollo GraphQL in for federating multiple backend services into one graphql api, wrapping legacy rest apis for frontend consumption, enterprise api governance with schema checks and audit logs, reducing frontend over-fetching and under-fetching of data. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apollo GraphQL 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 $73.5/month. Apollo GraphQL starts at $5/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo GraphQL (this page) | Free, then $5/month | freemium | - | |
| Treblle | $233/month | subscription | - | vs Apollo GraphQL |
| Stainless | Free | freemium | - | vs Apollo GraphQL |
| Pusher | Free, then $49/month | freemium | - | vs Apollo GraphQL |
| PubNub | Free, then $98/month | freemium | - | vs Apollo GraphQL |
| Moesif | Free | usage-based | - | vs Apollo GraphQL |
| Liveblocks | Free, then $30/month | freemium | - | vs Apollo GraphQL |
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 Apollo GraphQL badges page.
Before you pay for Apollo GraphQL
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: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Apollo GraphQL runs on web, api, and is published by Apollo GraphQL. The full record is on the Apollo GraphQL review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.
Apollo GraphQL pricing questions
- How much does Apollo GraphQL cost?
- Apollo GraphQL publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Apollo GraphQL have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers up to 3 developers, 1-day data retention, community support. Paying starts at $5/month for Developer.
- What is the difference between Free and Developer on Apollo GraphQL?
- Developer costs $5/month against Free, and adds $5 per million requests with volume discounts, $50 usage credit for new signups, up to 10 developers, 7-day data retention.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Apollo GraphQL worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited developers, 18-month data retention, 24x7x365 support with sla, professional services available. It costs On request against $5/month for Developer. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Apollo GraphQL 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 $73.5/month; Apollo GraphQL starts at $5/month.
- Which api management tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 7 api management tools listed alongside Apollo GraphQL have a free tier: Stainless, Pusher, PubNub, Moesif, Liveblocks.
- What am I actually paying for with Apollo GraphQL?
- The record lists 6 features across 4 areas: integration, core, analytics, security. In practice it is brought in for federating multiple backend services into one graphql api, wrapping legacy rest apis for frontend consumption, enterprise api governance with schema checks and audit logs.
- Does Apollo GraphQL charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Apollo GraphQL 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 Apollo GraphQL against before paying?
- The closest api management tools in this directory are Treblle, Stainless, Pusher, PubNub. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Apollo GraphQL covering price, platforms and features.