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AWS API Gateway pricing
AWS API Gateway publishes 2 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
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
AWS API Gateway 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 Tier | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Pay-as-you-go | $3.5/per 1M requests | 3 | +$3.5/per 1M requests, 3 more features |
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 Tier
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1m requests per month, basic api management.
Pay-as-you-go
$3.5/per 1M requestsOver Free Tier, this tier adds:
- Unlimited requests
- HTTP APIs
- REST APIs
Where AWS API Gateway stops being free
Free Tier, Free
- 1M requests per month
- Basic API management
Pay-as-you-go, $3.5/per 1M requests
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited requests
- HTTP APIs
- REST APIs
What the product covers
The full AWS API Gateway 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
- REST APIs
- WebSocket APIs
- HTTP APIs
Integrations
- Lambda
- EC2
- DynamoDB
- CloudWatch
- IAM
Platform
- AWS Cloud support
People bring AWS API Gateway in for fronting lambda functions with an http endpoint, rest and http api management with throttling and keys, websocket apis for real-time clients, private apis reachable only inside a vpc, publishing a developer portal for api consumers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to AWS API Gateway are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in API Management
Too few api management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS API Gateway (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| Backendless | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Asyncapi | Free | open-source | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Akana | $2500/monthly | subscription | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Boomi API Management | $1500/monthly | subscription | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Appwrite | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Apigee | $500/monthly | subscription | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
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 AWS API Gateway badges page.
Before you pay for AWS API Gateway
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: 2 tiers between Free and $3.5/per 1M requests, 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.
AWS API Gateway runs on aws cloud, and is published by Amazon Web Services of Seattle, Washington, USA. The full record is on the AWS API Gateway review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.
AWS API Gateway pricing questions
- How much does AWS API Gateway cost?
- AWS API Gateway publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Tier up to $3.5/per 1M requests for Pay-as-you-go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does AWS API Gateway have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Tier tier costs nothing and covers 1m requests per month, basic api management. Paying starts at $3.5/per 1M requests for Pay-as-you-go.
- What is the difference between Free Tier and Pay-as-you-go on AWS API Gateway?
- Pay-as-you-go costs $3.5/per 1M requests against Free, and adds unlimited requests, http apis, rest apis.
- Which api management tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 7 api management tools listed alongside AWS API Gateway have a free tier: Backendless, Asyncapi, Appwrite, Microsoft Azure API Management.
- What am I actually paying for with AWS API Gateway?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for fronting lambda functions with an http endpoint, rest and http api management with throttling and keys, websocket apis for real-time clients.
- Does AWS API Gateway charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 AWS API Gateway 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 AWS API Gateway 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 AWS API Gateway covering price, platforms and features.