Amazon API Gateway Pricing in 2026
6 plans, paid from $1, and a free plan.
Pay-as-you-go
Billed Usage-based: API calls and data transferred out for HTTP and REST APIs; messages and connection minutes for WebSocket APIs.
No minimum fees or upfront commitments · Private APIs have no data transfer out charge · Additional charges may apply for other AWS services
Free tier
Billed monthly for up to 12 months for new AWS customers
1M REST API calls/month · 1M HTTP API calls/month · 1M WebSocket messages/month · 750,000 WebSocket connection minutes/month
HTTP APIs
Billed per million requests; tiered
$1.00 per million for first 300M requests · $0.90 per million above 300M in example
WebSocket APIs
Billed per million messages plus $0.25 per million connection minutes in example
Messages up to 128 KB · metered in 32 KB increments
REST APIs
Billed per million API calls in example regions
$3.50 per million first tier · $2.80 per million next tier · $2.38 per million highest shown tier
API Gateway Portals
Billed monthly portal charge in example
Includes 10 PortalProducts · up to 40 ProductRestEndpoints per PortalProduct
From $1 Read from Amazon API Gateway's pricing page on 5 Oct 2026.
What the alternatives cost
| Product | Free | Paid from |
|---|---|---|
| Gravitee API Gateway | Free plan | $2,500 |
| Algolia | Free plan | $0.50 |
| Kong Gateway | Free plan | — |
| Hasura | Free plan | $1.50 |
| Google Cloud Endpoints | Free plan | $1.50 |
| Fusio | Free plan | — |