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Apigee

iScore64–72 · #3/4
cloud.google.com/apigee · API gateways
SEPT 2026 audit

Google Cloud's API management platform, billed per million API calls at a rate set by which proxy type handles them.

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Entry paid plan$365 a month per region for a Base environment, plus $20 per million API calls on a Standard proxy. Pay-as-you-go means no contract, not no floor — calls are served by an environment and the cheapest environment carries that monthly charge whether traffic arrives or not. The most expensive entry in this category by an order of magnitude.
Free tierYes
CategoryAPI gateways

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

API programmes that need policy depth and are already on Google Cloud, with 60 days of sandbox evaluation before any commitment and volume rates that fall to $13 per million calls above 500 million.

Consider something else if…

Cost at the bottom end decides it. The floor is $365 a month per region for a Base environment before a single call is served, against $25 at Kong and Zuplo and nothing at all at AWS — and an Extensible proxy, the one that unlocks the full policy set, is $100 per million against a Standard proxy at $20.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Pricing
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Free tierYes
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  • Apigee pricing ↗

    “Evaluate Apigee in your own sandbox at no cost for 60 days”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Kind of free offerFree trial
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  • Apigee pricing ↗

    “in your own sandbox at no cost for 60 days”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Entry paid plan$365 a month per region for a Base environment, plus $20 per million API calls on a Standard proxy. Pay-as-you-go means no contract, not no floor — calls are served by an environment and the cheapest environment carries that monthly charge whether traffic arrives or not. The most expensive entry in this category by an order of magnitude.
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  • Apigee pricing ↗

    “$365 per month per region Up to 50 QPS”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Pricing modelPer million API calls, at a rate set by which of two proxy types serves them. A Standard proxy is $20 per million up to 50 million, $16 to 500 million and $13 above that; an Extensible proxy, which unlocks the full policy set, is $100, $80 and $64 across the same bands — five times the price for the same call volume. Choosing the proxy type is therefore a pricing decision as much as a capability one.
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  • Apigee pricing ↗

    “Costs provided are per 1M API calls.”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Infrastructure
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Uptime SLA99.99% for Pay-as-you-go, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus subscriptions; 99% for Apigee Standard. The pricing page states it differently again, capping a Base environment at "up to 99%" — so a pay-as-you-go customer holds a 99.99% commitment while deploying into environments the price table rates at 99%, and neither page reconciles the two.
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Inference
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Rate limits50 queries per second on a Base environment. Throughput is a property of the environment type rather than a usage line you can raise, so more requests per second means a more expensive environment rather than a larger bill for the same one.
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