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Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale

Azure API Management allows organisations 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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API Management (v2 tiers)

¹ Includes one unit.

² A single operation within an HTTP request is a unit of billing. Includes requests across the built-in gateway and workspace gateways.

³ Bring your own Redis-compatible cache, e.g. Azure Redis Cache.

⁴ Available for gateway only. Limit of 20 domain names per instance. Call support to add more.

⁵ Requires deployment of at least one unit in two or more availability zones or regions.

⁶ Allows API Management instance to reach API backends that are isolated in a single connected VNet.

⁷ Provides complete isolation of inbound and outbound traffic without needing to open traffic to API Management's internal dependencies.
Not available	Basic v2	Standard v2	Premium v2 (in preview)
Purpose	API management for teams and projects	Start your organisational API programme and scale as it takes off	Operate an enterprise-grade API programme
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 customised domain names⁴	No	No	No
Virtual Network	No	VNET integration⁶	VNET integration⁶ VNET injection⁷
Self-hosted gateway	No	No	No

API Management (classic tiers)

¹ Requires deployment of at least one unit in two or more availability zones or regions.

² Throughput figures are presented for information only and must not be relied upon for capacity and budget planning. Load test reflecting anticipated production conditions must be conducted to determine expected throughput accurately. Throughput is affected by the number and rate of concurrent client connections, the kind and number of configured policies, payload sizes, backend API performance, and other factors. The numbers presented in the table were obtained by testing with 1,000 concurrent persistent client secure HTTP connections, minimal payload sizes, no policies configured, and a low latency backend API.

³ Bring your own Redis-compatible cache, e.g. Azure Redis Cache.

⁴ Available for gateway only. Limit of 20 domain names per instance. Call support to add more.

⁵ In the Developer tier, the self-hosted gateway feature is available at no additional cost. The number of gateway deployments is not limited, but each deployment is limited to a single gateway replica (instance).

⁶ In the Premium tier, the self-hosted gateway feature is available at an additional cost (see below). The number of gateway replicas (instances) in each deployment is not limited.

⁷ To find out the price or get provision Isolated tier service please call support.

⁸ Consumption SKU billing counts "a single operation within an HTTP request" as a billing unit. The traditional REST and SOAP APIs that contain a single operation within a HTTP request.

⁹ Every workspace must be associated with a workspace gateway. Refer to gateway pricing table for more details.
Not available	Consumption	Developer	Basic	Standard	Premium	Isolated^Preview
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 customised 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
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.

¹ Developer tier deployments are free of charge.

² The first five workspaces are included at no additional cost.
	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 Centre

Not available	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

¹ Full feature capabilities for the first 5 APIs.

² For more details see service limits.

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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.
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.
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.
All nodes within the gateway deployment share the location properties and configuration, for example, the customised 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.
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.
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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