Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway is a cloud service for publishing, securing, and governing web APIs and SOA-based systems.
What Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway is
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway is a cloud service for publishing, securing, and governing web APIs and SOA-based systems. Teams can create private endpoints and optionally expose them through public IP addresses. Policies support API validation, request and response transformation, CORS, authentication, authorization, and request limiting. A gateway can route traffic to several back ends, including load balancers, compute instances, and OCI Functions, while API descriptions can use OpenAPI. Authentication options include OCI IAM, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Remote JWKS, static keys, authorizer functions, and mutual TLS. Oracle also names Oracle Identity Cloud Service, Okta, and Auth0 as JWT identity providers. Usage plans provide access tiers, subscriptions, entitlements, and traffic analytics. Access is available through the OCI Console, REST API, or OCI CLI. The paid service lists $3.93, paid once, billed per 1,000,000 API calls, and offers a 30-day Oracle Cloud trial.
Good
- Supports HTTP and HTTPS
- Multiple authentication methods
- Rate limiting and request transformation
- Routes to several back-end services
- 30-day cloud trial
Watch out
- Paid usage-based pricing
- Regional service limits apply
- Customers must configure cloud resources securely
Who it suits
This gateway suits teams managing HTTP or HTTPS APIs that need authentication, traffic controls, transformations, usage plans, and OCI back-end routing. It is a cloud deployment accessed through Oracle tools.
Verdict
OCI API Gateway brings publishing, security, routing, and subscription controls together for cloud API operations. Its broad authentication support and OCI integrations are useful when those controls match a team’s architecture.
Plans and prices
From Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| API Gateway | $3.93, paid once | Usage-based pricing · SKU B92072 · Per 1,000,000 API calls |
The facts
Each one read from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access methods
- The service can be accessed through the browser-based OCI Console, REST API, or OCI CLI.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API standards
- OCI API Gateway supports API descriptions in OpenAPI format.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Back ends
- A single API gateway can route traffic to multiple back-end services, including load balancers, compute instances, and OCI Functions.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Endpoints
- It lets users publish APIs with private endpoints and optionally expose them with public IP addresses for internet traffic.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Identity integrations
- The product page names Oracle Identity Cloud Service, Okta, and Auth0 as identity providers that can provide JSON Web Tokens for API security.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Regional service limits control the number of API gateways, API resources, and API Gateway certificate resources; default limits vary by payment method and can be increased by request.checked 8 Oct 2026
- OCI integration
- API Gateway integrates with OCI Identity and Access Management for authentication and authorization.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Policies
- Endpoints support API validation, request and response transformation, CORS, authentication and authorization, and request limiting.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway provides integration, governance, and security for API and SOA-based systems so teams can manage and deliver web APIs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security responsibility
- Oracle describes cloud security as a shared responsibility: Oracle secures cloud infrastructure and operations, while customers are responsible for securely configuring their cloud resources.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Traffic protection
- Rate-limiting policies can throttle traffic to back-end services and help protect against denial-of-service attacks.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Oracle's company history page says Software Development Laboratories was founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1977checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial
- Oracle's API Management page offers 30 days of access to Oracle Cloud as a free trial.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Usage plans
- API managers can define API access tiers, manage subscriptions and entitlements, and monitor API traffic and analytics by plan and subscription.checked 8 Oct 2026
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