# Zuplo

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

A programmable API gateway deployed to the edge, billed per request with a free tier that does not expire.

## Who it suits

Getting an API behind a gateway without a procurement conversation: 100,000 requests a month free forever, no card, with the developer portal, AI gateway and MCP gateway included rather than sold as tiers.

Consider something else if Volume is the point. Builder bills $100 per additional 100,000 requests — $1,000 per million against AWS at $1.00 and Apigee at $20 — so the pricing is built for low traffic and gets expensive quickly above it.

## iScore

71 / 100 (80% interval 67–74), rank 1 of 4 in api-gateway — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

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/zuplo/alternatives/

- Price: 66 (60–73), weight 50%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 58 (52–64), weight 30%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Evidence: 100 (100–100), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: 100,000 requests a month, one day of analytics, live logs and traces, up to two developer seats and GitOps from GitHub. No card, and no expiry — the only standing free tier in this category rather than a trial or a credit. ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $25 a month for Builder, which includes 100,000 requests and then charges $100 per additional 100,000. Enterprise starts at $1,000 a month on an annual contract. ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per request, in blocks: Builder includes 100,000 a month and bills $100 per 100,000 beyond it, which works out far above the per-million rates AWS and Apigee quote and is aimed at low volume rather than scale. The MCP gateway, AI gateway and developer portal are included on every plan rather than sold separately. ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Infrastructure

- Uptime SLA: 99.5% as the baseline, rising to as much as 99.999% on Enterprise. The lowest published floor in this category and the highest published ceiling, both on the same page. ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Auth

- SAML single sign-on: Supported — Enterprise tier, with RBAC alongside it ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Audit logs: A full management audit trail, listed as an Enterprise-tier feature. ([source](https://zuplo.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [Zuplo vs Amazon API Gateway](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aws-api-gateway-vs-zuplo/)
- [Zuplo vs Kong Konnect](https://inetgeek.com/compare/kong-konnect-vs-zuplo/)
- [Zuplo vs Apigee](https://inetgeek.com/compare/zuplo-vs-apigee/)