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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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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 In the Developer tier, the workspaces feature is available at no additional cost.

⁹ The first five workspaces are included at no additional cost. Additional workspaces can be purchased in increments of five. Pricing will not take effect until September 1, 2023. See below for details.

¹⁰ 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.
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 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.

Billing applies only for Premium tier deployments. Developer tier deployments are free of charge.
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Workspaces

Workspaces allow API providers to safely and securely share a single Azure API Management service across multiple teams or projects.

Billing applicable only for Standard, Premium and Isolated tier deployments. The first five workspaces are included at no additional cost. Developer tier deployments are free of charge. Pricing will not take effect until September 1, 2023.
Price (per increment of five)	$-

API Center

API Center is available at no cost during preview.

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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 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.
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.
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.
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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Azure API Management Premium ($2.800/month) worth it? Most of it's features can be done in code (caching, cors, etc.). We're using IdentityServer so we don't need it to handle auth. It's more of a nice to have, not a must in my opinion.

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Is Azure API Management worth it? ›

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How much does it cost to host an API in Azure? ›

Azure API Management has 6 pricing edition(s), from $0.04 to $2,795.17.

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How can I reduce my APIM cost? ›

Consider scaling your API Management instance up or down to control costs. You can configure API Management with Autoscale based on a metric or a specific count. Costs depend upon the number of units, which determines throughput in requests per seconds (RPS).

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Does Azure charge for API calls? ›

If you are using the Azure REST API then you should not be charged for calling the management API's.

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What are the drawbacks of API Management? ›

However, they also come with some drawbacks, such as security concerns, complexity, compatibility issues, dependency on third-party developers, and governance and management issues.

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Is Azure certification enough? ›

An Azure Fundamentals Certification can be an excellent way to make your resume stand out to potential employers. Certifications from industry leaders like Microsoft can help demonstrate your knowledge of cloud computing models, cloud governance strategy, cloud migration, and more.

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Is API integration expensive? ›

The cost of building an API can vary depending on the complexity of the project, but it typically ranges from $10,000 to $50,000. There are a number of factors that can affect the cost of API development, including the number of endpoints, the data volume, and the security requirements.

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Can I host my API for free? ›

The first way to host your API is directly from your local computer. Even though this sounds weird, it's pretty easy and for free. While you are developing your API using express or any other library you host it in your localhost:3000 where 3000 is the port through which the network request happens.

Do API requests cost money? ›

For most users, a basic version of the API is available for free up to a certain limit. Once that limit is exceeded, Google charges per API call, which varies based on the specific Maps service used (like Directions, Places, or Roads).

Is Azure APIM free? ›

Self-hosted gateway

Billing applies only for Premium tier deployments. Developer tier deployments are free of charge.

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What is the difference between Azure API Management and app services? ›

Microsoft's Azure API Management supports creation of API. The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling.

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What is the difference between API gateway and APIM? ›

API Management (APIM) is superior to API gateway where it does all the activities of API Gateway and also do additional activities like Service dictionary, Service directory lookup, monitoring services and handle security functionalities to service invocation through SSL certificates.

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How do I scale Azure API management? ›

Customers can scale an Azure API Management instance in a dedicated service tier by adding and removing units. A unit is composed of dedicated Azure resources and has a certain load-bearing capacity expressed as a number of API calls per second.

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What is Azure API management? ›

Azure API Management is a hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments. As a platform-as-a-service, API Management supports the complete API lifecycle.

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How should I charge for my API? ›

One approach is to charge a very small amount every time the user makes an API call. Since API calls happen many times, this amount is usually a fraction of a cent. Products that charge this way often provide discounts for prepaying for API calls. They also usually provide an amount of API calls available for free.

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What is the benefit of Azure API Management? ›

Azure API Management benefits;

Secures backend services access to APIs with API keys. Caches backend responses if set up. Easy authentication and access control for API security and access. Define end-to-end policies for inbound and outbound traffic.

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Why use Azure API Manager? ›

Azure API Management helps customers meet these challenges: Abstract backend architecture diversity and complexity from API consumers. Securely expose services hosted on and outside of Azure as APIs. Protect, accelerate, and observe APIs.