Frends vs Zuplo
Frends
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Zuplo
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| Figure | Frends | Zuplo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $25/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · API Developer Portal Software | 6.6 (#25) | 8.5 (#5) |
| API management | Yes | The platform provides authentication, rate limiting, request validation, CORS, API keys, developer portals and programmable TypeScript policies. |
Plans
Frends
- GrowthPrice not published
- BusinessPrice not published
- EnterprisePrice not published
- Enterprise InfinityPrice not published
In their own words
Zuplo
Zuplo is an API management platform with API Gateway, AI Gateway, and MCP Gateway products. API protections include API keys, JWT, Basic Auth, mTLS, bot detection, rate limiting, and schema validation. OpenAPI supports documentation and cataloging, and every plan includes a hosted developer portal that can use a customer domain. The AI Gateway routes requests among OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral, and offers semantic caching, prompt injection protection, secret masking, and spending budgets. MCP Gateway is included on every plan for authenticating, routing, and governing MCP servers. Documented logging integrations include AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Google Cloud Logging, Loki, Splunk, Sumo Logic, and VMware Log Insight. Zuplo says its gateways deploy to more than 300 edge locations; self-hosted or dedicated deployment is available. GitHub GitOps is supported on Free and Builder, while Enterprise lists GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. Free costs nothing and includes up to 100K monthly requests. Builder costs $25 a month, with additional requests charged at $100 per 100K.