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Apollo GraphQL

The API Orchestration Platform for AI Agents, Web, and Mobile Apps

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What is Apollo GraphQL?

Cloud native API orchestration platform for managing GraphQL APIs with federation, schema management, and developer tooling.

Independently observed

Apollo GraphQL pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

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from $5/moUsage-basedFree tier

Free tier available; Developer plan starts at $5 per million requests with volume discounts. $50 credit for new signups.

Free

Free
Free

For students or hobbyists learning GraphQL

requests_per_minute
60
  • GraphOS - Apollo's complete API management platform
  • Supports any GraphQL API
  • Self-hosted GraphOS Router (limited to 60 requests per minute)
  • GraphQL Federation, Connectors, Response Caching, Federated Subscriptions
  • Schema Proposals with collaboration and approval workflows
  • Single sign-on (SSO)
  • Audit logging
  • Custom MSA
  • Data retention: 1 day
  • Community Support

Developer

$5 per million requests, billed monthly with automatic volume discounts
monthly

For small teams operating production GraphQL APIs

  • GraphOS - Apollo's complete API management platform
  • Supports any GraphQL API
  • Self-hosted GraphOS Router
  • GraphQL Federation support

What Apollo GraphQL does

The capabilities that matter for graphql tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Role
Gateway / federation
Primary language
-
Modelling
Schema approach
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
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

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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 Apollo GraphQL, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 65 / 100
low · 37%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Package Downloads8426.002185.5✓
Capabilities7516.001195.6✓
Pricing Transparency1008.00800.0✓
Price Level806.00480.0✓
Reliability508.00400.0✓
Github Stars785.00390.9✓
Github Activity1018.00170.6✓
Integrations08.000.0-
Release Cadence010.000.0-
Security Posture013.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

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Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d1mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars13,942highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%
Package downloads weekly2,962,139highsource · 2026-08-01 · 85%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"role":"gateway","caching":true,"federation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"subscriptions":true,"schema_approach":"schema_first"}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryTypeScripthighsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxMIThighsource · 2026-08-01 · 99%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 56%
Starting gbp5mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Free tierYeslowsource · 2026-08-01 · 48%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%