GraphQL Vendors

Apigee is Google Cloud's API management platform, letting teams proxy, secure, and observe GraphQL APIs with policies for validation, threat protection, and analytics.

Apollo builds an end-to-end GraphQL platform — Apollo Server, Apollo Client, the Apollo Router, and the GraphOS schema management and observability suite — for building and scaling federated GraphQL APIs, with over 1 billion open-source downloads.

AWS offers AWS AppSync, a fully managed service for building GraphQL APIs with real-time subscriptions, offline data synchronization, and fine-grained security controls.

Azure API Management is Microsoft's fully managed API gateway, with support for pass-through and synthetic GraphQL APIs and policies for security, caching, rate limiting, and GraphQL request validation.

ChilliCream builds the Hot Chocolate GraphQL server for .NET, the Strawberry Shake client, and Banana Cake Pop, an IDE for exploring and managing GraphQL APIs.

Dgraph is a distributed, native GraphQL database with a graph backend, designed from the ground up for GraphQL and optimized for speed and scale.

Escape provides automated GraphQL security testing and compliance, scanning endpoints for vulnerabilities during development across any language or framework.

Graphile builds PostGraphile and related open-source tooling that generate a powerful, extensible, and performant GraphQL API from a PostgreSQL database.

GraphQL.Security offers a fast, free scan that runs a battery of security tests against a GraphQL endpoint — no login required.

Hasura connects to your databases and services to instantly deliver production-ready GraphQL APIs with built-in authorization and real-time capabilities.

Hygraph is a federated content platform that unifies content and data from multiple sources and exposes it through a single GraphQL API.

IBM API Connect for GraphQL, formerly StepZen, lets teams declaratively build and deploy GraphQL APIs that compose data from REST services, databases, and other GraphQL endpoints.

Kong Gateway is a cloud-native API gateway that fronts GraphQL APIs with plugins for proxy caching, rate limiting, authentication, and observability.

Builds [Hive](the-guild.dev/graphql/hive), the fully open-source (MIT) GraphQL federation platform — schema registry, gateway, router, and observability — run self-hosted and in the cloud at some of the world's largest enterprises, exposing GraphQL APIs as governed MCP tools for AI agents. Maintains many of the ecosystem's most-used libraries, including [GraphQL Code Generator](the-guild.dev/graphql/codegen), [Yoga](the-guild.dev/graphql/yoga-server), [Mesh](the-guild.dev/graphql/mesh), and [GraphQL Tools](the-guild.dev/graphql/tools), with tens of millions of downloads every month. Also runs [Stellate](stellate.co), the CDN for GraphQL.

Tyk is an open-source API management platform with GraphQL support for proxying, federation, subscriptions, and its Universal Data Graph.

WSO2 API Manager is an open-source platform for designing, securing, and managing APIs, with support for GraphQL queries, mutations, and subscriptions alongside REST.

WunderGraph builds Cosmo, an open-source platform for GraphQL Federation at scale with a schema registry, composition, routing, and analytics.