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
Consumption | Developer | Basic | Standard | Premium | IsolatedPreview | |
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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 operations10 per subscription - Included Unlimited - $- per 10,000 API operations10 1+ million API operations10 - $- per 10,000 API operations10 | $- | $- | $- |
$- 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 Preview | No | Yes8 | No | Yes9 | Yes9 | Yes9 |
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 |
Self-hosted gateway
The self-hosted gateway feature expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Deploying the self-hosted gateway provides a consistent and unified experience, including on Kubernetes or anywhere with Azure Arc. With the self-hosted gateway feature, organizations can deploy a containerized version of the API Management gateway component to the same environments where they host their APIs, while managing them from an associated API Management service in Azure.
Price | $- |
Workspaces
Workspaces allow API providers to safely and securely share a single Azure API Management service across multiple teams or projects.
Price (per increment of five) | $- |
API Center
API Center is available at no cost during preview.
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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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In the Developer tier, the workspaces feature is available at no additional cost. For the Standard, Premium and Isolated tiers, the first five workspaces are included at no additional cost. Additional workspaces can be purchased in increments of five.
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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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