# Grafbase vs WunderGraph

**Leader by Vioscale score:** WunderGraph

| Attribute | Grafbase | WunderGraph |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.2 (73% (medium)) | 71.1 (68% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A GraphQL Federation platform providing enterprise-grade governance, control, and observability for unified API management. Supports cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployment with AI-native capabilities. | An enterprise-grade solution for building and managing federated supergraphs with schema composition, governance enforcement, breaking-change detection, security controls, and real-time analytics. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"gateway","caching":true,"language":"GraphQL","federation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"subscriptions":true,"auth_directives":true,"schema_approach":"schema_first","db_introspection":true}` | `{"role":"gateway","language":"GraphQL","federation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"subscriptions":true,"auth_directives":true,"schema_approach":"schema_first"}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 15 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"NATS"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"REST"},{"name":"JWT"}]` | `[{"name":"Apollo Federation"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"OpenID Connect"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"NATS"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"Azure AD"}]` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","features":["High performance Rust gateway","Open-source license","No feature gating","Community support"],"description":"High performance Rust gateway with no feature gating","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Unified schema composition","Schema proposal & approval workflows","Entity-level caching","Persisted queries","Intelligent query execution","Rate limiting","Trusted documents","SAML SSO","Fine-grained access control","Cloud, hybrid, or on-prem hosting","Dedicated customer success team","Slack Connect channel","24/7/365 enterprise support","Up to 99.99% SLA"],"description":"Fully self-hostable with dedicated support and 99.99% SLA","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source tier. 60-day free trial. Enterprise pricing available via contact sales.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://grafbase.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T17:05:27.230Z","freeTrialDays":60,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Developer","summary":"Free forever","features":["Self-Hosted Router (1)","Apollo Federation v1 & v2 support","JWT / JWKS Auth","Federated Subscriptions (SSE, WebSockets)","Prometheus Metrics","OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Tracing","Advanced Request Tracing (ART)","Event-Driven Federated Subscriptions (EDFS)","Ludicrous Mode: Singleflight","Cost Control","Community Support","SOC2 & HIPAA compliance"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For individual developers and small projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"plugins":"3","feature_flags":"1","max_subgraphs":"10","federated_graphs":"1","requests_per_month":"10M","data_retention_days":"7"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$499/month","features":["Self-Hosted Router (2)","Apollo Federation v1 & v2 support","JWT / JWKS Auth","Federated Subscriptions (SSE, WebSockets)","Prometheus Metrics","OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Tracing","Advanced Request Tracing (ART)","Event-Driven Federated Subscriptions (EDFS)","Ludicrous Mode: Singleflight","Cost Control","Community Support","Email Support","SOC2 & HIPAA compliance"],"minSeats":10,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Get started with your team","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"plugins":"10","feature_flags":"1","max_subgraphs":"20","federated_graphs":"2","requests_per_month":"250M","data_retention_days":"14"}},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","summary":"$3,499/month. Most popular.","features":["Self-Hosted Router (5)","Apollo Federation v1 & v2 support","JWT / JWKS Auth","Federated Subscriptions (SSE, WebSockets)","Prometheus Metrics","OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Tracing","Advanced Request Tracing (ART)","Event-Driven Federated Subscriptions (EDFS)","Ludicrous Mode: Singleflight","Cost Control","SSO (Single Sign-On)","RBAC (Role-based Access Control)","Standard SLA","Slack Connect","Community Support","Email Support","SOC2 & HIPAA compliance"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":3499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams with growing needs","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"federated_graphs":"5","requests_per_month":"1B","data_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing. Talk to Sales","features":["Custom Self-Hosted Router","Custom number of Federated Graphs","Up to 99.99% uptime SLA","Incident response SLA","Customizable MSA","Dedicated Cloud Environment available","Dedicated Solution Architect & Priority Support"],"description":"Custom solutions tailored to your needs","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"uptime_sla_pct":"99.99"}}],"summary":"From $499/month for teams. Free tier available for individual developers.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://wundergraph.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:34:07.964Z","startingPrice":{"amount":499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (GraphQL Tools)

| Capability | Grafbase | WunderGraph |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Role | Gateway / federation | Gateway / federation |
| Primary language | GraphQL | GraphQL |
| **Modelling** |  |  |
| Schema approach | Schema-first | Schema-first |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Federation / subgraph composition | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Realtime** |  |  |
| Real-time subscriptions | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| Response / edge caching | ✓ | - |
| **DX** |  |  |
| Typed code generation | - | - |
| **Automation** |  |  |
| Generates API from a database | ✓ | - |
| **Security** |  |  |
| Built-in authz / permissions | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Official hosted offering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hostable | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:02:20.159Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*