Apigee API hub
Apigee API hub brings an organization’s API information into a catalog for API consumers, producers, and platform teams to discover, assess, organize, and ma…
What Apigee API hub is
Apigee API hub brings an organization’s API information into a catalog for API consumers, producers, and platform teams to discover, assess, organize, and manage. Catalog entries can describe versions, specifications, operations, deployments, dependencies, and lifecycle details. Users can search definitions with filters or free-text queries, including LLM-based search. The hub parses OpenAPI specifications into definitions and operations and can provide linting feedback on imported specifications. It can import proxy information from Apigee and Apigee hybrid projects, with synchronization scheduled every six hours, and connect to other listed gateways or custom sources. VPC Service Controls help constrain ingress and egress; instance and search-data locations can be selected during provisioning. Advanced API Security is a separate add-on for risk assessment across Apigee organizations, environments, and gateways, with some multi-gateway capabilities excluded. The dashboard appears only after at least five APIs are registered. A free plan is available at no additional cost for eligible Apigee organizations in supported regions; pricing is also listed from $13 with a 60-day trial.
Good
- Catalog covers API versions, deployments, and lifecycle details.
- Search supports filters and LLM-based free text.
- Parses OpenAPI specifications and offers linting feedback.
- Custom plugins connect on-premises or multicloud sources.
- Supports instance and search-data location selection.
Watch out
- Dashboard requires at least five registered APIs.
- Free plan is limited to eligible organizations in supported regions.
- Advanced API Security is an additional add-on.
- Multi-gateway add-on lacks some abuse detection and response features.
Who it suits
It suits API consumers, producers, and platform teams managing an organization's API portfolio. Teams should check regional eligibility and the five-API dashboard threshold.
Verdict
Apigee API hub combines API cataloging, specification handling, search, and integrations for teams managing an API portfolio. Check regional eligibility, dashboard thresholds, and the separate security add-on limits against your needs.
Plans and prices
From Apigee API hub's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Apigee API hub | Free | For Apigee and Apigee hybrid · API hub-supported region required · Available at no additional cost for eligible Apigee organizations in supported regions |
The facts
Each one read from Apigee API hub's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Add-on limits
- Multi-gateway Advanced API Security does not support abuse detection, security reports, or security actions across multiple organizations and gateways.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Apigee integration
- API hub can connect to Apigee and Apigee hybrid projects to import proxy information, with scheduled synchronization described as occurring once every six hours.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Custom sources
- API hub supports custom plugins for connecting custom on-premises or multicloud API sources.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Dashboard threshold
- The API hub dashboard requires at least five registered APIs to display.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Data residency
- API hub supports data residency by letting users select locations for the instance and search data during provisioning.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Gateway integrations
- Supported sources include Apigee, Apigee hybrid, Google Cloud API Gateway, Apigee Edge, and preview plugins for AWS API Gateway and Azure API Management.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- The product is aimed primarily at API consumers, producers, and platform teams that need to find, evaluate, and manage an organization's API portfolio.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Lifecycle catalog
- The catalog can include API versions, specifications, operations, deployments, dependencies, and lifecycle details.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Apigee API hub centralizes API information so teams can discover, evaluate, organize, and manage APIs.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Search
- API hub supports filter-based and LLM-based free-text search across API definitions.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security add-on
- Advanced API Security is an additional add-on for assessing API security risk across multiple Apigee organizations, environments, and gateways.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security perimeter
- API hub integrates with VPC Service Controls to constrain ingress and egress and help mitigate unauthorized access and data exfiltration.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Specifications
- It can parse OpenAPI specifications into definitions and operations, and provide linting feedback for imported specifications.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Google's release notes direct users to contact Google Cloud Support for questions or assistance.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1998checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, USAchecked 23 Sep 2026
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