Compare 6 free api gateway tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 is not a free offer. We could not confirm today's terms for 2 of them: on 1 the page we cite did not answer, and on 1 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Zuplo and more.
What this name holds: Gateways and proxies that sit in front of an API in production, doing routing, keys and rate limits.
2 other names here answer “how do I build and publish an API”, and each holds a different list: API Development (41), Documentation (7).
We track 5 api gateway services with a free tier we hold as current and 1 without. This category has seen some movement — 8 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zuplo | Free | Free tier includes 100K requests / month. Custom domains are $25/mo for 2 domains (max). | 2026-09-24 |
| Kong | OSS | Superseded: As of 2026-09-25, konghq.com/pricing reads: Kong Konnect offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, including access to all features. The free trial includes no gateway limits and analytics retained for 30 days. We are not publishing our stored Kong terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-25, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-09-25 / 2026-07-28 |
| Hookdeck | Developer | Event gateway — 10K events/month, 100K discarded requests, 3-day retention, 5 events/sec throughput. SOC2 compliant | 2026-09-24 |
| Unkey | Free | The "Free" API key management plan is priced at 0 USD / mo and lists "1k API keys", "150K valid requests / mo", "1-day logs retention", "3-day audit log retention" and "Unlimited APIs". | 2026-09-24 / 2026-07-30 |
| X (Twitter) | Pay-per-use (no free tier) | Social media API — free tier eliminated February 2026, replaced with pay-per-use credit model. April 20, 2026 overhaul: Owned Reads (fetching your own posts, followers, likes) now $0.001/request; write cost raised to $0.015/post; URL-containing posts now $0.20/post. Following, likes, and quote-posts via API have been removed from all self-serve tiers. 'For-good' utility apps remain free. Basic fixed tier starts at $200/monthWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-13, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-07-07 · tried 2026-09-13, no read |
| Tyk | Open Source | Open-source API gateway — self-hosted: free forever under MPL-2.0, includes rate limiting, auth, analytics. Cloud: 48-hour free trial only, paid plans usage-based. Dashboard and developer portal includedOur read on 2026-09-28 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-28 / 2026-07-30 |
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