Apollo Studio vs GraphQL Hive
Apollo Studio
apollographql.com
GraphQL Hive
the-guild.devSide by side
| Figure | Apollo Studio | GraphQL Hive |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5/mo | $20/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 3 |
| Spec score · API Design Tools | 9.5 (#2) | 8.5 (#7) |
| Founded | 2016 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Rosh Haayin, Israel |
| Integrations | Studio integrations include Slack and Datadog, while performance alerts can notify Slack or PagerDuty. | The documentation lists integrations or reference implementations for Apollo Gateway, Apollo Router, Apollo Server, GraphQL Yoga, GraphQL Ruby, GQLGen, and OpenTelemetry. |
| Observability | GraphOS collects operation and field metrics from clients, routers and subgraphs and presents usage, latency, errors and traces in Studio Insights. | Hive provides API usage and performance insights, including metrics for identifying slow GraphQL operations. |
| Schema registry | Registering a graph creates a cloud-hosted schema source of truth that tracks schema history and produces changelogs. | Hive Console tracks schema changes, checks schemas, prevents composition errors, and provides a schema explorer. |
| Self-hosting | Paid and free GraphOS plans include a self-hosted GraphOS Router option, with the Free plan rate-limited to 60 requests per minute. | Hive Console is available as a hosted service or can be self-hosted, and the product FAQ says its on-premises version is free and open source. |
| Support | The plans list Community Support for Free, Developer Support 8×5 without an SLA, Standard Support 8×5 with an SLA, and Enterprise Business Support 24×7×365 with an SLA. | Hobby and Pro include GitHub issues and chat support; Enterprise includes a dedicated Slack channel, onboarding, 24/7 support, and a tailored SLA. |
Plans
Apollo Studio
- FreeFree
- Developer$5 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- StandardPriced on request
In their own words
Apollo Studio
Apollo Studio is the interface for Apollo GraphOS, a platform for managing a supergraph and coordinating GraphQL development. Studio Explorer lets developers create, run, and share GraphQL operations, with query linting and autocomplete. GraphOS maintains a central registry of schemas and metadata, generates changelogs, and visualizes graphs. Teams can review proposed schema changes asynchronously and validate them against past requests from registered clients to check for breaking changes. Composition, validation, and approvals can connect to CI/CD pipelines. Access controls include granular roles and filtered graph variants for specific clients or partners. Studio tracks usage by field, client, and operation, showing trends, request volume, rates, errors, and service traces; OpenTelemetry support can send metrics to a chosen APM tool. Rover CLI supports schema publishing, CI checks, and local supergraph testing, while the Platform API enables custom automation. GraphOS supports any GraphQL API, including Federation and Connectors. Free costs nothing, supports up to three developers, and retains checks and insights data for one day. Developer starts at $5 a month, based on $5 per million requests.
GraphQL Hive
GraphQL Hive has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.