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Build GraphQL APIs & MCP Servers for all your data sources in minutes, deploy them in seconds, and run them securely and efficiently as fully managed SaaS. Whether backends are public or private, SQL or NoSQL, REST or SOAP/XML, or other GraphQL APIs, your team can deliver a flexible GraphQL API layer in days, not weeks or months. APIs are concise and declarative; they run as SaaS with built-in performance, cost, and reliability optimizations.
Overview
IBM API Connect for GraphQL as a Service is a modern API platform that lets you build GraphQL APIs and MCP Servers for all your data sources using a declarative approach. APIs run in an in-memory Golang based GraphQL engine deployed into Kubernetes, and are highly responsive to application needs. Delivered as a fully managed SaaS, it enables developers to create concise, performant GraphQL APIs and agent ready MCP servers in minutes, deploy in seconds, and run securely without managing infrastructure. APIs are built using a declarative approach, allowing developers to compose GraphQL schemas, federated graphs (supergraphs), and MCP endpoints by combining building blocks that describe your enterprise data. Strong introspection and schema composition mean you can model and expose your data; for applications, agents, or AI; with just a few lines of code. The platform runs on a high-performance, in memory Golang based engine deployed to Kubernetes, delivering low latency, high throughput, and minimal backend load. At runtime, it optimizes queries and orchestrates access to your backends, whether they are public or private, SQL, NoSQL, REST, SOAP/XML, or even other GraphQL APIs. Build modern APIs for any data source. Concise, declarative APIs and MCP Servers ready for applications and AI agents alike. Any data source. Any sized graph or schema. Learn more: https://stepzen.com/product/build Deploy & Run at scale. Fully managed Golang-based query optimization engine. Scale, secure, and optimize APIs and backends; no servers to manage. Learn more: https://stepzen.com/product/run-serverless Federate your data. The only declarative approach for federated GraphQL and agent ready data access. Learn more: https://stepzen.com/product/federationÂ
Highlights
- Build GraphQL APIs & MCP Servers for all your data sources in minutes, deploy them in seconds, and run them securely and efficiently as fully managed SaaS.
- Unparalleled flexibility to retrieve data wherever it resides. Connect data from any backend data source: SQL, NoSQL, REST, SOAP/XML, GraphQL etc. Declarative, consistent approach reduces backend complexity. IBM API Connect Essentials as a Service's declarative approach to GraphQL results in smaller and more intuitive code, better runtime performance, and faster time to value.
- Automatic performance optimizations. Because the API is defined declaratively, IBM API Connect Essentials as a Service's runtime engine can parse the backend calls and create an optimal execution plan that includes caching, memorization, parallelization's, and combining multiple calls into one (N+1 problem). Furthermore, the runtime is a carefully designed thread-safe implementation in Golang, resulting in only a few milliseconds overhead.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Enterprise | 1 Location, 5 Environments, and 100M API Calls per year | $37,500.00 |
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Francis C.
A solid API management platform that works well for basic to moderately complex solutions
Reviewed on Jun 17, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
- It offers a good balance of features, security, and usability.
- It has a User-Friendly Interface.
- Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases
- It has a User-Friendly Interface.
- Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve for New Users is a little high. While the interface is well-structured, beginners or those without prior exposure to IBM’s ecosystem may find the initial learning curve steep.
Occasional Bugs:
The platform does occasionally exhibit bugs or inconsistencies, which can impact the developer experience. Most issues are manageable, but they can be frustrating during critical development phases.
Occasional Bugs:
The platform does occasionally exhibit bugs or inconsistencies, which can impact the developer experience. Most issues are manageable, but they can be frustrating during critical development phases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly centralized API management, Security and Access control.
Satish K.
I am a senior software developer. I have worked as full stack developer and DevOps Engineer
Reviewed on Dec 07, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I love security features and features like rate limiting and throttling
What do you dislike about the product?
UI can be improved and pricing is a bit higher comparatively
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall API creation and management. It helps us in security and scalability of our APIs.
Kiran D.
best for API Management life cycle
Reviewed on Nov 28, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM API Connect is IBM Cloud based technology useful for API management lifecycle including development and administration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations of Analytics data extraction
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For SOAP and RESTful APIs, API development and management is easy with IBM API connect. IBM Analytics helps to keep the data for monitoring and troubleshooting.
Harshit B.
Clean and organised monitoring of API!
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Recently i got the oppurtunity to work with IBM API Connect, It comes very handly for management and deployments of API's.It provides seamless tools for API managing and developement, thoughout the API lifecycle starting from design to deployment and deprecation of API.
What do you dislike about the product?
Though it provision end to end platform for management of API but still i feel more tutorials and walkthroughs can help beginners to learn the API integration faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using the build in tools offered by IBM API connect, we designed API for accessing product details and fetch order history, the design phase was quite easy, special thanks to OpenAPI support and also it helped us to deploy API gateway.
Laxman Kumar P.
IBM API Connect - Enhance & Secure your APIs
Reviewed on Nov 26, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM API Connect is a single API Management solution where it provides the high security, easy to develop the APIs, we can publish the APIs to socialize. IBM API Connect will be integrated with IBM DataPower Gateway where it will acts as gateway which provides high securtiy where it will be acts as a proxy. In the latest version of API Connect the advanced features are released where we can discover the APIs before moving to API lifecycle and we can governance the APIs using API & Product level rulesets.
And the implementation for the administartor is quite easy and the support provided by the IBM Support center will be helpful which facing any production down issues.
And the implementation for the administartor is quite easy and the support provided by the IBM Support center will be helpful which facing any production down issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
IBM API Connect in the latest version for the analytics server the deployment profile was deprecated which will needs to increase the additional RAM for the servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Developing of APIs and publishing through the developer portal site is helping the APIs to reach more in the society and publicity.