What is Grafbase?
Enterprise-grade GraphQL Federation platform providing governance, control, and observability for APIs and AI stacks with performance optimizations and flexible deployment.
Grafbase 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.
Free tier available. Enterprise custom pricing. Annual billing available upon request.
Open Source
FreeHigh performance Rust gateway, open-source license, no feature gating, community support
- High performance Rust gateway
- Open-source license
- No feature gating
- Community support
Enterprise
Contact salesFully self-hostable with custom pricing, dedicated customer success team, 99.99% SLA
- Custom pricing
- Fully self-hostable
- Roadmap influence
- Dedicated customer success team
- Slack Connect channel
- 24/7/365 enterprise support
- Up to 99.99% SLA
- Unified schema composition
- Change management
- Performance optimizations
- Enterprise security
- Flexible hosting
What Grafbase 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.
- Role
- Gateway / federation
- Primary language
- -
- Schema approach
- Schema-first
- Federation / subgraph composition
- ✓
- Real-time subscriptions
- -
- Response / edge caching
- ✓
- Typed code generation
- -
- Generates API from a database
- ✓
- Built-in authz / permissions
- ✓
- Official hosted offering
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Air-gapped
- Self-hosted
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Snowflake
- Postgres
- Kafka
- NATS
- gRPC
- REST
- JWT
Grafbase alternatives
Other graphql tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- RelayThe GraphQL client that scales with you.low · 39%
- Strawberry GraphQLA modern GraphQL library for Pythonlow · 35%
- HasuraCreator of PromptQL, Data Delivery Network & GraphQL Enginelow · 31%
- GraphQL MeshUnify your API landscape with Mesh's federated architecture, integrating any API service into a cohesive graph.low · 38%
- WunderGraphGraphQL Federation, built to governmedium · 58%
- PostGraphileBuilds a powerful, extensible and performant GraphQL API from a PostgreSQL schema in secondslow · 34%
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 Grafbase, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 16.00 | 1298.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 100 | 8.00 | 796.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 40 | 13.00 | 520.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 6.00 | 480.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 8.00 | 207.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
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 | {"role":"gateway","caching":true,"federation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"auth_directives":true,"schema_approach":"schema_first","db_introspection":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | lowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48% |