Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale
Azure API Management allows organizations to publish APIs hosted on Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds more securely, reliably, and at scale. Use API Management to drive API consumption among internal teams, partners, and developers while benefiting from business and log analytics available in the admin portal. This service helps provide the tools your organization needs for end-to-end API management—everything from provisioning user roles, creating usage plans and quotas, applying policies for transforming payloads, throttling, analytics, monitoring, and alerts.
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US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
API Management (v2 tiers)
| Basic v2 | Standard v2 | Premium v2 (in preview) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | API management for teams and projects | Start your organizational API program and scale as it takes off | Operate an enterprise-grade API program |
| Price1 | $- | $- | $- |
| Scale-out (per additional unit) | $- | $- | $- |
| API requests2 (per month) |
10M included
$- per 1M additional API requests |
50M included
$- per 1M additional API requests |
Unlimited included |
| Cache, built-in (per region) | 250 MB | 1 GB | 5 GB |
| Cache, external3 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SLA | 99.95% | 99.95% | 99.99%5 |
| Multiple custom domain names4 | No | No | No |
| Virtual Network | No | VNET integration6 |
VNET integration6
VNET injection7 |
| Self-hosted gateway | No | No | No |
API Management (classic tiers)
| Consumption | Developer | Basic | Standard | Premium | IsolatedPreview | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution | Non-production use cases and evaluations | Entry-level production use cases | Medium-volume production use cases | High-volume or enterprise production use cases | Enterprise production use cases requiring high degree of isolation |
| Price (per unit) | 0-1 million API operations8 per subscription - Included Unlimited - $- per 10,000 API operations8 1+ million API operations8 - $- per 10,000 API operations8 | $- | $- | $- |
$- Unit cost of incremental units (>1) of the same service instance charged at 50% of the first unit purchased. |
TBA7 |
| Cache (per unit) | External only | 10 MB | 50 MB | 1 GB | 5 GB | 5 GB |
| Scale-out (units) | N/A (automatic scaling) | 1 | 2 | 4 |
12 per region (call support to add more) |
12 per region (call support to add more) |
| SLA | 99.95% | No | 99.95% | 99.95% | 99.99%1 | 99.99% |
| Isolation | Shared | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private |
| Usage limits | Limits apply | No | No | No | No | No |
| Cache, external3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Developer portal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple custom domain names4 | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Active Directory integration in developer portal | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Availability Zone support | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Virtual Network support | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-region deployment | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted gateway | No | Yes5 | No | No | Yes6 | Yes |
| Workspaces | No | No | No | No | Yes9 | No |
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Estimated maximum throughput2 (per unit) |
N/A (automatic scaling) | 500 requests/sec | 1,000 requests/sec | 2,500 requests/sec | 4,000 requests/sec | 4,000 requests/sec |
| Compute isolation | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Gateway
The gateway resource ensures runtime isolation and supports hybrid and multi-cloud API deployments. Learn more about gateways.
| Workspace gateway premium | Self-hosted gateway | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Use as a managed data plane for workspaces in the Premium tier. | Use as a self-hosted data plane for APIs deployed on premises or in other private and public clouds. |
| Price | $- | $-1 |
| Workspaces | $-2 | Not available |
API Center
| Free | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | 90-day free plan for non-production use cases and evaluation | Enterprise production use cases |
| Price |
$- Time limit: 90 days |
$- |
| API Inventory |
Yes Register up to 200 APIs |
Yes2 Register up to 10,000 APIs |
| API Governance | Yes1 | Yes2 |
| API Discovery | Yes1 | Yes2 |
1Full feature capabilities for the first 5 APIs.
2For more details see service limits.
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Frequently asked questions
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The Developer tier does not offer an SLA. Therefore, it is not suitable for production use. The Developer tier should be used for evaluations, development, and test.
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Yes. The new self-hosted gateway feature enables on-premises as well as multi-cloud deployments. The feature is available for production use in the Premium tier and evaluation purposes in the Developer tier. Please see the product page as well as the pricing section above for more details.
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Customers can scale API Management by adding and removing units. Each unit has certain request processing capacity that depends on the service’s tier. For example, a unit of the Standard tier has an estimated maximum throughput of approximately 2,500 requests per second. As you add or remove units, capacity scales proportionately. For example, two units of the Standard tier provide an estimated throughput of approximately 5,000 requests per second.
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All nodes within the gateway deployment share the location properties and configuration, for example, the custom domain name(s) and assigned APIs. Each gateway deployment corresponds to a gateway resource that can be created either via the Azure portal on the Gateways blade inside an API Management service or programmatically via management API.
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The purpose of the Isolated tier is to enable use of all the features of API Management Premium tier in highly-regulated industries where compute environment isolation is a requirement.
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Consumption SKU charges based on the number of API requests processed by the service. It counts a single API operation within an HTTP request as a billing unit. For traditional REST and SOAP APIs, a single HTTP request contains just one operation. However, Synthetic GraphQL allows multiple operations to be combined in a single HTTP call. To accommodate Synthetic GraphQL requests, the Consumption SKU introduces a per API operation billing unit, which counts each individual operation within a single HTTP request as a separate billing unit.
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