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Apollo GraphOS

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4.7

Overview

Product Information on Apollo GraphOS

Updated 9th January 2026

What is Apollo GraphOS?

Apollo GraphOS is a cloud-native API orchestration platform that enables teams to connect AI agents and apps to GraphQL and REST APIs, query data from anywhere, and ship new experiences with speed and confidence. The platform includes centralized schema management, federation, collaboration workflows, and governance capabilities such as schema checks, contracts, access control, and auditability to coordinate changes across teams. Integrated observability and performance tooling provide end-to-end traceability, usage analytics, and error and latency insights, helping teams ensure API reliability and optimize their graph in production.

Apollo GraphOS Pricing

Apollo GraphOS software offers pricing based on tiered subscription plans, which include a free tier with limited features and usage, as well as paid plans that provide additional capabilities and increased usage limits. Pricing structure may depend on team size, feature access, and usage metrics such as requests and storage.

Overall experience with Apollo GraphOS

IT Associate
3B - 10B USD, Transportation
FAVORABLE

“Apollo Product Integration Enabled Smooth Supergraph Management and Reliable Support”

5.0
Oct 7, 2025
I have worked on bringing the Apollo product over 7 years. We went live in production few years back with their gateway offering and they worked hand in hand with us during the pilot and production rollout. We are currently running multiple routers for alvarious supergraphs. Apollo's support was integral in our success.
Engineer
3B - 10B USD, Banking
CRITICAL

“Navigating Apollo’s Methods Can Be Difficult for General GraphQL Practitioners”

3.0
Oct 7, 2025
Apollo tends to get caught up in its way of solving issues, and as someone who focuses on graphql more generally it's hard to follow

About Company

Company Description

Updated 20th February 2024

Apollo GraphQL helps developers help the world by providing an API platform across teams. It offers both open-source and commercial GraphQL technologies to help customers ship personalized, omnichannel experiences fast with a supergraph – a self-service GraphQL platform that spans any number of backend services. The Apollo GraphOS platform simplifies API development with workflows and infrastructure to build, test, and ship supergraphs at any scale.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
201 - 500
Website
http://www.apollographql.com

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Apollo GraphOS Likes & Dislikes

Like

Their willingness to jump into code to solve problems as well as interest in taking feedback to improve their product.

Like

when you use the features as intended it's fast and saves time

Like

Apollo GraphQL use cases in the summit provided production use cases such as BlockBuilder from WayFair using Apollo federation capabilities with domain and UI configuration routing, Indeed Agentic workflows via Subscriptions

Dislike

Not all of my feature requests have made it into their product. - router subscriptions over event broker - more insights for caching when using the router - insights based on subgraph or dev team in addition to by consumer

Dislike

Apollo almost feels like a separate skill from general graphql quite often

Dislike

Clarity on what are the wrong use cases for GraphQL. Problems with Connectors as a production grade enterprise solution.

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Apollo GraphOS Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(59 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
66%
4 Star
31%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

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4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • IT Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Apollo Product Integration Enabled Smooth Supergraph Management and Reliable Support

    5.0
    Oct 7, 2025
    I have worked on bringing the Apollo product over 7 years. We went live in production few years back with their gateway offering and they worked hand in hand with us during the pilot and production rollout. We are currently running multiple routers for alvarious supergraphs. Apollo's support was integral in our success.
  • Director of Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Summit Explores GraphQL Use in Agentic Experiences and Enterprise Challenges

    5.0
    Oct 8, 2025
    overall, the summit helped me understand how GraphQL enterprise solutions are used for surfacing Agentic Experiences which is the most relevant right now.
  • Principal Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Reliable GraphQL Scalability from Apollo Offset by Challenging Documentation Experience

    5.0
    Oct 7, 2025
    Apollo has delivered what we need, a reliable and scalable solution for GraphQL
  • Director of Commerce Engineering
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Positive Initial Experiences With Apollo’s Support And Product Versatility

    5.0
    Oct 8, 2025
    The Apollo team has been extremely helpful and considerate to our needs. We are still on the free version and the support has been very appreciated.
  • Architect
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Approval Workflows and Metrics Dashboard Support Future-Ready API Strategies

    4.0
    Oct 7, 2025
    i like the workflow especially the attention to details like what would make the user experience less painful and more productive viz the approval workflows , the newly announced metrics dashboard
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