Pricing trends for API Gateway: 8 tracked pricing changes across 6 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

API Gateway Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

6
Vendors
2%
of All Tracked Changes
2
At-Risk Vendors
model change 3 reduced 2 new 1 restructured 1 removed 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

new Kong discovered 2026-09-25 · effective date unknown high
The OSS tier information is no longer directly represented. Kong Konnect offers a free trial for 30 days with no credit card required, including access to all features. It is time-limited. Is not reflected in the current pricing page. Source ↗
reduced Zuplo discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now has a limit of 100K requests/month, not 1M. The free tier also does not include custom domains. Source ↗
reduced Unkey discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
Log retention on the free plan narrowed from 7 days to 1, and audit log retention from 30 days to 3. Keys, requests and APIs are unchanged and the plan is still priced at nothing. Source ↗
restructured Tyk discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The free tier information has been updated. An open-source option is still mentioned, the page now prominently features a 48-hour free trial of Tyk Cloud and three paid tiers: Core, Professional, and Enterprise. Source ↗
model change X (Twitter) effective 2026-04-20 high
X API per-request pricing overhaul: Owned Reads now $0.001/request; writes raised to $0.015/post (from ~$0.01); URL-containing posts now $0.20/post (massive increase). Following, likes, and quote-posts via API removed from all self-serve tiers. Announced on X Developer Community. Source ↗
model change Xero Developer API effective 2026-03-02 high
Xero retiring revenue-share model, moving to 5-tier connection+egress pricing. No more free API access for developers. Costs jumping from ~$0 to $17K+/year for some. Also banning API data use for AI/ML model training Source ↗
model change X (Twitter) effective 2026-02-06 high
Pay-per-use pricing model introduced alongside existing fixed tiers. Legacy free tier users migrated to pay-per-use with $10 voucher. Free tier effectively reduced to proof-of-concept only (~500 posts/month read, no search) Source ↗
removed X (Twitter) effective 2026-02-01 high
X/Twitter API eliminated free tier in February 2026, replacing it with a pay-per-use credit model. Active free-tier users receive a $0 voucher. 'For-good' utility apps remain free. Basic fixed tier remains at $200/month Source ↗

We hold 2 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 2 of the 6 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 1 of the 6 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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