# Amazon API Gateway

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/api-gateway/aws-api-gateway/

AWS's managed API gateway, billed per request at two different rates depending on which API type you deploy.

## Who it suits

APIs that already live in AWS, where the gateway can reach a Lambda or a private VPC service without leaving the account. Nothing is bought in advance: no minimum fee, no upfront commitment, and $1.00 per million HTTP API requests from the first one.

Consider something else if You would pick the wrong API type by accident. REST APIs cost $3.50 per million against HTTP APIs at $1.00 — the same traffic, three and a half times the bill — and the choice is made when you create the API, not when the invoice arrives.

## iScore

67 / 100 (80% interval 64–71), rank 4 of 4 in api-gateway.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every api-gateway peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/api-gateway/aws-api-gateway/alternatives/

- Price: 66 (60–72), weight 50%, 2 of 3 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: minimum_paid_price
- Trust and compliance: 58 (52–65), weight 30%, 1 of 3 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: audit_logs, sso_saml
- Evidence: 85 (85–85), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)
- Kind of free offer: Free credit ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: None. There are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments — you pay per request from the first one, at $1.00 per million for HTTP APIs and $3.50 per million for REST APIs in us-east-1. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per request, and the rate depends on which of two API types you deploy: $1.00 per million HTTP API requests falling to $0.90 above 300 million, against $3.50 per million REST API requests falling to $1.51 above 20 billion. WebSocket APIs are billed separately at $1.00 per million messages plus $0.25 per million connection-minutes. Data transfer out is charged on top, except on Private APIs. ([source](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonApiGateway/current/us-east-1/index.json), read 2026-09-15)

### Infrastructure

- Uptime SLA: 99.95% Monthly Uptime Percentage per region, backed by service credits. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/sla/), read 2026-09-15)

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