API Management pricing across 10 tracked products: entry-tier median $0, top-tier median $206. Cheapest: AWS API Gateway. Most premium: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. Updated October 2026.
API Management pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; quote-only products are listed but left out of the medians.
Entry-tier median is $0, top-tier median $206 (products with published prices only).
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apigee | $365 | $1,460 | $3,431 | month |
| AWS API Gateway | $0 | $1.75 | $3.50 | month |
| Hoop.dev | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| Kong | $0 | $200 | $500 | month |
| MuleSoft Anypoint Platform | $0 | $75,000 | $150,000 | month |
| Plaid | Custom | Custom | Custom | month |
| Stoplight | $44 | $113 | $362 | month |
| SwaggerHub | $5.00 | $25 | $49 | month |
| Unkey | $0 | $25 | $50 | month |
| Zuplo | $0 | $25 | $25 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier. Custom means the vendor publishes no list price (quote only); those rows are left out of the medians.
Across 10 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $0 and the top-tier median is $206. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
AWS API Gateway has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.