API Analytics vs Apiable

API Analytics monitors API activity and gives teams usage and performance data through a real-time dashboard, active monitoring, and error notifications. Setup examples cover frameworks including FastAPI, Flask, Django, Express, Gin, Rails, and ASP.NET Core. Its middleware can record request method, endpoint, user agent, timestamp, response status and time, API hostname, and framework identifier. IP collection is configurable: addresses can be stored, discarded after use, or never accessed or collected. An optional custom user ID can be attached to requests and used to filter information from the data API, which returns raw request records with filters such as date, hostname, status, location, and user ID. The service is available on the web and through an API, and it can be self-hosted. Its free plan costs nothing and supports up to 1 million stored requests per user; new requests replace older ones after the limit. The FAQ advises against production self-hosting while the project remains under development and testing.

Apiable provides a branded API portal plus partner onboarding and monetization layer connected to an existing API gateway. Teams can package APIs into products with plans, pricing, usage limits, and approval flows. Supported commercial models include usage-based, prepaid, postpaid, credit packs, flat fees with overage, and contract pricing, with Stripe integration for billing and payments. Partners use a self-service portal to create accounts, obtain credentials, read documentation and code samples, and test in a sandbox. Portals can include custom domains, branding, usage metrics, team access, and subscription management. Named gateway integrations are Amazon API Gateway, Kong, Apigee, and Azure API Management. Apiable says requests and responses do not pass through its infrastructure; gateway logs can be read for usage and billing. Managed SaaS runs on AWS in Frankfurt, with a dedicated portal instance and database per customer. Self-hosting is available in a customer’s AWS account as an enablement-package item. Customer-account Azure or GCP, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments are not offered. Pricing is quoted by portal count and connected gateways.