Best API Management · FREE
Best free API Management (2026)
6 api management that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Apigee (Google Cloud) at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Apigee (Google Cloud), Kong Konnect, Postman, Stoplight, Tyk, Zuplo.
- Data current through: 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 2 of 6 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | API Management | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apigee (Google Cloud) | $0/mo | No | Yes | — | Enterprise Google Cloud workloads | cloud.google.com |
| 2 | Kong Konnect | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | API gateway management | konghq.com |
| 3 | Postman | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | API development teams | postman.com |
| 4 | Stoplight STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | API design-first teams | stoplight.io |
| 5 | Tyk STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Teams wanting open-source first with optional cloud | tyk.io |
| 6 | Zuplo | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Edge API gateway | zuplo.com |