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Apigee
API management platform for designing, securing, and scaling APIs
As of 30 August 2026, Apigee starts at $500/monthly. Apigee (by Google Cloud) is an enterprise API management platform that helps organizations design, secure, publish, and analyze APIs. Softwr lists it under APIs. Apigee is made by Google Cloud, launched in 2006, available on Web, Self-hosted.
Overview
What Apigee does
Apigee (by Google Cloud) is an enterprise API management platform that helps organizations design, secure, publish, and analyze APIs. It provides comprehensive tools for API governance, security, and analytics.
What people use it 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
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Apigee.
- The free evaluation is a sandbox limited to 60 days
- Pay-as-you-go has no SLA available at all
- Pay-as-you-go bills environments separately from API calls, with a Base environment costing $365 per month per region
- The Base environment is capped at 50 QPS with an SLA of up to 99%
- Standard API Proxy calls are billed at $20 per 1M calls up to 50M, and Extensible API Proxy calls at $100 per 1M calls up to 50M
- API Analytics is a paid add-on at $20 per 1M API calls and cannot be bought on a Base environment
- Advanced API Security is a paid add-on at $350 per 1M API calls and cannot be bought on a Base environment
- Monetization is unavailable on pay-as-you-go and requires a subscription tier
- Additional API proxy deployments beyond those included cost $0.04 per hour per region on a Comprehensive environment
- Subscription tiers Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus are quote only with no published price
- Google Cloud networking charges for IP addresses, data transfer out and forwarding rules are billed on top of Apigee usage
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Pricing
What Apigee costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Starter
$500 /mo
- API gateway
- Analytics
- Developer portal
Professional
$2,500 /mo
- Advanced security
- Traffic management
- Monetization
Enterprise
On request
- Custom deployment
- SLA
- Dedicated support
Capabilities
Features
API Gateway
API Analytics
Developer Portal
Google Cloud services
Integration with Google Cloud services
Azure
Integration with Azure
AWS
Integration with AWS
Okta
Integration with Okta
Cloud support
Available on Cloud
Hybrid support
Available on Hybrid
On-premises support
Available on On-premises
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Does Apigee offer a free tier?
Yes, Apigee offers an always-free tier with access to 20+ products for common API management use cases, and a separate free trial providing $300 in credit for proof-of-concept projects.
SourceWhat is Apigee's pricing model?
Apigee uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model where customers pay based on API calls and usage, with a new pay-as-you-go model designed to optimize costs.
SourceIs there a commitment required to start with Apigee?
No. The free trial provides $300 in credit with no automatic charges or commitment required, allowing customers to evaluate the platform risk-free.
SourceAre there usage limits I should know about?
Apigee documentation includes a limits page covering usage constraints, though specific limits are not detailed in the pricing section.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Apigee
- Company
- Google Cloud
- Based in
- Mountain View, California, USA
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