What does API management actually cost per month in 2026?

At 100 million calls a month on published list prices, the gateway line is $100 on AWS API Gateway HTTP API ($1.00 per million), $720.03 on Azure API Management Basic v2 across three environments (three instances at $150.01, 10 million requests included, then $3 per million), $2,895 on Apigee X Pay-as-you-go with three Base environments ($365 each plus $20 per million Standard proxy calls to 50 million and $16 above), and a flat $2,500 on Gravitee Planet. Kong Konnect Plus caps at 10 million requests a month, so 100 million is a Kong Enterprise quote. Tyk and Solo.io are quote-only, and MuleSoft publishes only a $2,000 a month package floor. Egress, ops time and support come on top; the calculator adds them.

Which API management vendors publish list prices?

AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, Apigee X (Pay-as-you-go), Kong Konnect Plus and Kong AI Gateway, Cloudflare, Gravitee (Planet), WSO2 Developer Platform (Team), Fastly and Portkey publish list prices. MuleSoft publishes a package floor of $2,000 a month billed annually but not its credit rates. Tyk, Solo.io, KrakenD Enterprise, Apigee subscriptions and Kong Enterprise publish no price.

What hidden costs are not in the gateway sticker price?

Egress, log shipping to a SIEM, developer portal seats, mTLS, custom domains, WAF, multi-region replication, cold-start mitigation on consumption tiers, and premium support. Egress alone at 100 million calls a month with 5 KB responses is 500 GB, or $45 at the AWS data transfer out rate of $0.09 per GB.

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API management cost, 14 vendors, one TCO calculator

An independent reference for what API management actually costs in 2026. Calculator-first. Quote-only vendors render as quote. We do not infer rates we cannot source.

Verified 20 October 2026

By Oliver Wakefield-Smith

Founder, Digital Signet

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Response 200 OK median monthly

$3,794

across 7 vendors with public pricing

GET/v1/tco.matrix

vendor	gateway	per-call	egress	ops FTE	total / mo	/yr at 20% off
AWS API Gateway HTTP API per-request meter	$0	$100	$45	$3,646	$3,794	$36.4K
Azure API Management Basic v2, 3 instance(s)	$450	$270	$45	$3,646	$4,432	$42.6K
Apigee X PAYG Base, 3 env-region(s)	$1,095	$1,800	$45	$3,646	$6,673	$64.1K
Kong Konnect above Konnect Plus's 10M request cap	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote
MuleSoft Anypoint floor published, credit rates not	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote
Cloudflare API Gateway Workers Paid + 1 Pro zone, CPU time excluded	$30	$27	$45	$3,646	$3,749	$36.0K
Tyk Cloud no published price	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote
WSO2 Choreo above Team's 5M request limit	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote
Gravitee Planet, gateway-based	$2,500	$0	$45	$3,646	$6,266	$60.2K
KrakenD Community Edition, self-hosted	$0	$0	$45	$3,646	$3,691	$35.4K
Solo.io no published price	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote
Fastly API Gateway Compute request meter only	$0	$45	$45	$3,646	$3,737	$35.9K
Portkey AI Gateway above Production's 3M request limit	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote
Kong AI Gateway above Konnect Plus's 10M request cap	quote	quote	$45	$3,646	quote

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Vendor endpoints

14 vendor reference pages

One page per vendor, structured as an endpoint reference. The right gutter shows the cheapest published rate. Quote-only vendors are marked quote and we will not invent a number to fill the cell.

POST/vendors/aws-api-gatewayAWS API Gateway·$0.90 per million HTTP API requests after the first 300M/month at $1.00/M

PUT/vendors/azure-api-managementAzure API Management·Basic v2 lists at $150.01 per month per unit, with 10M API requests included

PUT/vendors/apigee-xApigee X·$365 per month per region for a Pay-as-you-go Base environment, before per-call charges

PATCH/vendors/kong-konnectKong Konnect·Plus starts at $25 per month for a serverless gateway control plane

DELETE/vendors/mulesoft-anypointMuleSoft Anypoint·Packages start at $2,000 per month, billed annually

POST/vendors/cloudflare-api-gatewayCloudflare API Gateway·Cloudflare Pro is $25 per month billed monthly ($20 billed annually)

DELETE/vendors/tyk-cloudTyk Cloud·quote

GET/vendors/wso2-choreoWSO2 Choreo·Team is $150 per component per month, up to 5 million API requests a month

PATCH/vendors/graviteeGravitee·Planet is $2,500 per month, gateway-based or consumption-based

GET/vendors/krakendKrakenD·KrakenD CE is open source and free

DELETE/vendors/solo-glooSolo.io·quote

POST/vendors/fastly-api-gatewayFastly API Gateway·Compute requests are free to 10M a month, then $0.50 per million to 500M

POST/vendors/portkey-ai-gatewayPortkey AI Gateway·Developer is free with 10K recorded logs a month

PATCH/vendors/kong-ai-gatewayKong AI Gateway·$100 per month per model on Konnect Plus, capped at 5 model proxies

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DELETEMuleSoft

no published price≡packages from $2,000/mo billed annually, Mule Credits

2026-09-23

PATCHKong Konnect

Plus $250/mo for 5 services; Free tier≡Plus per control plane from $25/mo; 30-day trial only

2026-09-23

PATCHKong AI Gateway

model proxy bundled on Plus▲$100/mo per model proxy on Plus, max 5

2026-09-23

POSTAWS API Gateway

no published Portals line≡Portals $125/mo, extra PortalProducts $12.50/mo

How this site is written

One author. Quarterly refresh. Every price links to the vendor's own pricing page with a tick like that one. Quote-only vendors render as quote. Read the methodology for the per-line formulae.

Vendor prices re-checked 20 October 2026 By Oliver Wakefield-Smith, Founder, Digital Signet