Apigee
Manage APIs with unmatched scale, security, and performance
- Also known as
- apigee
What is Apigee?
Google Cloud's native API management tool to build, manage, and secure APIs for any use case, environment, or scale. Supports REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC architectural styles with flexible deployment options.
Apigee pricing
We don't have Apigee's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Pay-as-you-go or subscription pricing; 60-day free sandbox trial
What Apigee does
The capabilities that matter for api gateways, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Kubernetes-native
- ✓
- Rate limiting
- ✓
- Request/response transformation
- ✓
- OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
- -
- Mutual TLS
- -
- GraphQL gateway
- ✓
- gRPC support
- ✓
- Developer portal
- ✓
- Monetization
- -
- Plugin ecosystem
- Extensive
- Observability
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- ChatGPT
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Apigee alternatives
Other api gateways we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WSO2 API ManagerThe Open Platform to Control APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 50%
- ZuploThe Unified Gateway for APIs, AI, and MCPmedium · 60%
- IBM API ConnectSeamlessly develop, manage, secure and socialize all your API types, wherever they live.low · 2%
- Traefiklow · 22%
- Tyklow · 44%
- EmissaryA Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxylow · 24%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Apigee, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 12.00 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 16.00 | 219.5 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","k8s_native":true,"grpc_support":true,"observability":true,"rate_limiting":true,"graphql_gateway":true,"developer_portal":true,"plugin_ecosystem":"extensive","request_transformation":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |