Azure API Management is Microsoft's managed service for publishing, securing, and analyzing APIs across the Azure ecosystem. Its Consumption tier is pay-per-call with a free monthly call grant, while other tiers carry fixed monthly fees, so overall pricing is usage-based; a non-production Developer tier is also available. It provides rate limiting, authentication management, and a developer portal. The core service is neither open-source nor self-hostable, though a self-hosted gateway add-on exists. Founded around 2016, it carries SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS attestations and fits teams managing APIs on Azure.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2016
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
API gateway
- Free tier
- Yes: Consumption tier includes a free monthly call grant; Developer tier is non-production.
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Rate limiting
- Yes
- Auth management
- Yes
- Developer portal
- Yes