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AWS API Gateway

Build and manage APIs securely at any scale

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Also known as
aws-api-gateway

Available worldwide · Popular in: US

What is AWS API Gateway?

A managed cloud service that handles the complete lifecycle of APIs—from creation and deployment to monitoring and security—including traffic management, authorization, throttling, and version control.

Independently observed

AWS API Gateway 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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $1/moUsage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing with no minimum fees or upfront commitments. HTTP APIs: $1.00/million calls; REST APIs: $3.50/million calls; data transfer charges apply. Free tier: 1M API calls per month for 12 months (new AWS customers). $200 free tier credit for new customers as of July 15, 2025.

HTTP APIs

1M free calls/month for 12 months; then $1.00/million (first 300M), $0.90/million above 300M

Pay per API call and data transfer out

free_tier_http_api_calls_per_month
1M for 12 months (new AWS customers)
  • 1M free API calls per month for 12 months
  • Tiered pricing after free tier
  • Data transfer out charges apply

REST APIs

1M free calls/month for 12 months; then $3.50/million API calls (Edge Optimized/Regional)

Pay per API call, data transfer, and optional caching

free_tier_rest_api_calls_per_month
1M for 12 months (new AWS customers)
  • 1M free API calls per month for 12 months
  • $3.50 per million for Edge Optimized/Regional APIs
  • No data transfer charges for Private APIs (PrivateLink charges apply)
  • Optional data caching at hourly rate

WebSocket APIs

1M free messages + 750k connection minutes/month for 12 months

Pay for messages sent/received and connection minutes

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1M for 12 months (new AWS customers)
free_tier_connection_minutes_per_month
750000 for 12 months (new AWS customers)
  • 1M free messages per month for 12 months
  • 750k free connection minutes per month for 12 months
  • Messages up to 128KB, metered in 32KB increments
  • Control frames (ping/pong) not metered

API Gateway Portals

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Managed developer portals for API discovery and governance

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10 per month
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40 per product
  • Developer portal hosting
  • 10 PortalProducts with 40 REST endpoints each included monthly
  • Additional PortalProducts billed separately
  • API discovery and documentation
  • Centralized governance
  • Prorated monthly charges

What AWS API Gateway 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.

Deployment
Hosting
Cloud only
Kubernetes-native
✗
Traffic
Rate limiting
✓
Request/response transformation
✓
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
-
Mutual TLS
-
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
✗
gRPC support
✗
Delivery
Developer portal
✓
Monetization
-
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
-
Insight
Observability
✓
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Platform & deployment

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Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (10)

Independently observed
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon VPC
  • AWS PrivateLink
  • AWS Serverless Application Model
  • AWS IoT

AWS API Gateway alternatives

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Compare AWS API Gateway

Side by side against other api gateways, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.

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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 AWS API Gateway, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 55 / 100
low · 41%updating
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing transparency1000.066.3✓
Price level800.043.4✓
Capabilities670.053.4✓
Security posture250.122.9✓
Integrations300.051.5✓
Reliability00.160.0-

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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

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesHosting: cloud · K8s native: No · Grpc support: No · Observability: Yes · Rate limiting: Yes · Graphql gateway: Nomediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count10mediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityHqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-16 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60%
FedrampYeshighsource · 2026-08-16 · 75%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-16 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-16 · 75%