Apigee API Management
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Features
18 features across 14 categories
AI/Development(1)
AI-powered code assistance that generates OpenAPI specifications from natural language, creates mock servers, and provides tailored recommendations using your organization's API ecosystem.
API Development(1)
Reusable flow components for building complex API orchestration and transformation logic.
API Governance(2)
Consolidates API specifications built or deployed anywhere into a single catalog, allowing developers to access and govern APIs to consistent quality standards.
Bundle multiple APIs into logical product units addressing specific use cases for developers and partners.
API Proxies(2)
Fully programmable proxy with unrestricted access to all Apigee policies and capabilities for complex transformations and orchestration.
Lightweight proxy with low footprint accessing a subset of Apigee policies, ideal for low-complexity traffic at reduced cost.
Analytics(1)
Built-in and customizable dashboards for investigating performance spikes, analyzing API traffic, and measuring developer engagement.
Deployment(1)
Enables deployment of APIs in any environment including on-premises data centers or public clouds using containerized Kubernetes clusters.
Developer Experience(2)
Integrated or customizable developer portals for publishing API products, onboarding developers and partners, and managing API consumption.
Support for building customized developer portal experiences using Drupal framework.
Infrastructure(1)
Three environment tiers (Base, Intermediate, Comprehensive) with varying capacity and SLA levels for different use cases.
Integration(1)
Proxy internal microservices managed in service meshes as REST APIs for enhanced security and management.
Monetization(1)
Create rate plans and implement complex billing models including payment processing and revenue share configurations for API products.
Monitoring(1)
Near real-time monitoring with transaction-level debugging, performance investigation, and anomaly detection with Advanced API Operations.
Performance(1)
Orchestrates and manages traffic for demanding applications with support for REST, gRPC, SOAP, and GraphQL architectural styles.
Security(2)
ML-based abuse detection that identifies undocumented APIs, assesses managed APIs against security standards, and provides recommended remediation actions.
Comprehensive multi-layer security combining Apigee, Cloud Armor, and reCAPTCHA Enterprise for protection against vulnerabilities, DDoS, and bot attacks.
Traffic Management(1)
Provides 50+ pre-built policies for security, rate limiting, transformation, mediation, and custom scripts without code modifications.
Pricing
Free Trial
- ✓60-day sandbox access
- ✓Full product evaluation
Pay-As-You-Go
- ✓Standard API Proxy: $20 per 1M calls (up to 50M), $16 (50M-500M), $13 (above 500M)
- ✓Extensible API Proxy: $100 per 1M calls (up to 50M), $80 (50M-500M), $64 (above 500M)
- ✓Base environment: $365/month per region
- ✓Intermediate environment: $1,460/month per region
- ✓Comprehensive environment: $3,431/month per region
- ✓Add-ons available: API Analytics, Advanced API Security
- ✓No upfront commitment
Standard
- ✓Up to 1.25B Standard API Proxy calls or 250M Extensible API Proxy calls
- ✓Three environments
- ✓250 deployments of API proxies/shared flows
- ✓Up to 250M API calls for Analytics with 14 months data retention
- ✓Up to 99% SLA
- ✓Hybrid entitlements available
- ✓Add-on access: Monetization, API Analytics, Advanced API Security
Enterprise
- ✓Up to 7.5B Standard API Proxy calls or 1.5B Extensible API Proxy calls
- ✓Six environments
- ✓500 deployments of API proxies/shared flows
- ✓Up to 1.5B API calls for Analytics with 14 months data retention
- ✓Up to 99.9% SLA
- ✓Hybrid entitlements available
- ✓Add-on access: Monetization, API Analytics, Advanced API Security
Enterprise Plus
Popular- ✓Up to 75B Standard API Proxy calls or 15B Extensible API Proxy calls
- ✓12 environments
- ✓1,500 deployments of API proxies/shared flows
- ✓Up to 15B API calls for Analytics with 14 months data retention
- ✓Up to 99.99% SLA
- ✓Hybrid entitlements available
- ✓Add-on access: Monetization, API Analytics, Advanced API Security
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Integrations
8 known integrations