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AWS API Gateway pricing
AWS API Gateway 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.
As of 30 August 2026, AWS API Gateway pricing is free, then $1/per million HTTP API calls across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $1/per million HTTP API calls
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 4
- 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 (12 months) | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| HTTP APIs | $1/per million requests (first 300M) | 3 | +$1/per million requests (first 300M), 3 more features |
| WebSocket APIs | $1/per million messages | 2 | +$0/per million messages, 2 more features |
| REST APIs | $3.5/per million API calls | 3 | +$2.5/per million API calls, 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 (12 months)
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1m rest api calls per month, 1m http api calls per month, 1m websocket messages plus 750k connection minutes per month.
HTTP APIs
$1/per million requests (first 300M)Over Free Tier (12 months), this tier adds:
- First 300M: $1.00 per million
- Next 132M: $0.90 per million
- Data transfer varies by volume
WebSocket APIs
$1/per million messagesOver HTTP APIs, this tier adds:
- Messages: $1.00 per million
- Connection minutes: $0.25 per million minutes
REST APIs
$3.5/per million API callsOver WebSocket APIs, this tier adds:
- Edge Optimized and Regional: $3.50 per million (first tier)
- Higher volumes: $2.80 then $2.38 per million
- Data transfer: $0.09 per GB
Where AWS API Gateway stops being free
Free Tier (12 months), Free
- 1M REST API calls per month
- 1M HTTP API calls per month
- 1M WebSocket messages plus 750K connection minutes per month
HTTP APIs, $1/per million requests (first 300M)
The first thing you pay for:
- First 300M: $1.00 per million
- Next 132M: $0.90 per million
- Data transfer varies by volume
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.
Other
- 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 APIs
Too few apis 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, then $1/per million HTTP API calls | usage-based | - | |
| Mambu | On request | quote | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Fintech Farm | On request | quote | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Flybits | On request | quote | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Neonomics | On request | quote | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Brite Payments | On request | quote | - | vs AWS API Gateway |
| Meniga | On request | quote | - | 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: 4 tiers between Free and $3.5/per million API calls, 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 apis tools.
AWS API Gateway pricing questions
- How much does AWS API Gateway cost?
- AWS API Gateway publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free Tier (12 months) up to $3.5/per million API calls for REST APIs. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does AWS API Gateway have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Tier (12 months) tier costs nothing and covers 1m rest api calls per month, 1m http api calls per month, 1m websocket messages plus 750k connection minutes per month. Paying starts at $1/per million requests (first 300M) for HTTP APIs.
- What is the difference between Free Tier (12 months) and HTTP APIs on AWS API Gateway?
- HTTP APIs costs $1/per million requests (first 300M) against Free, and adds first 300m: $1.00 per million, next 132m: $0.90 per million, data transfer varies by volume.
- Is the REST APIs plan on AWS API Gateway worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is edge optimized and regional: $3.50 per million (first tier), higher volumes: $2.80 then $2.38 per million, data transfer: $0.09 per gb. It costs $3.5/per million API calls against $1/per million requests (first 300M) for HTTP APIs. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with AWS API Gateway?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, 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 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 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 apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with AWS API Gateway covering price, platforms and features.