Azure API Management vs. Azure Front Door

Azure API Management

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure API Management	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure API Management supports creation of API.	$0.04 per 10,000 calls
Azure Front Door	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Azure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.	$35 per month

Pricing

Azure API Management

Azure Front Door

Consumption: 0.042 per 10,000 calls
Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution
Developer: $48.04
per month Non-production use cases and evaluations
Basic: $147.17
per month Entry-level production use cases
Standard: $686.72
per month Medium-volume production use cases
Premium: $2,795.17
per month High-volume or enterprise production use cases
Isolated: TBA
per month Enterprise production use cases requiring high degree of isolation

Pricing Offerings
Azure API Management	Azure Front Door
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Base fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)

Features

Azure API Management

Azure Front Door

Comparison of API Management features of Azure API Management and Azure Front Door
Feature	Azure API Management 8.0 4 Ratings	Azure Front Door - Ratings
API access control	8.94 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	5.44 Ratings	00 Ratings
API usage data	8.94 Ratings	00 Ratings
API user onboarding	9.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
API versioning	8.94 Ratings	00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	5.23 Ratings	00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	9.84 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Azure API Management	Azure Front Door
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)