Compare Gravitee and swiftype on pricing, features, platforms, and ratings — both API Tools tools, Freemium (open-source Community Edition plus tiered…
At a Glance
Gravitee
swiftype
Primary category
API Tools
API Tools
Rating
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Pricing model
Freemium (open-source Community Edition plus tiered commercial plans)
Tiered subscription: Standard $79/mo, Pro $199/mo, Premium custom-quoted, plus metered add-ons for extra documents/queries/engines/domains; 14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Starting price
Free (Community Edition); paid plans from $1,250/month
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Free plan
Yes
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Free trial
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Platforms
Web
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Team collaboration
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AI features
Yes
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Public API
Yes
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Pricing Compared
Starting price reflects the lowest paid tier, not the full cost for every team size or usage level.
Gravitee
Community Edition — Free N/A (self-hosted, open source)
Planet — $2,500/month Monthly
Galaxy — Custom Custom
Universe — Custom Custom
swiftype
No individual plan breakdown documented yet.
Pros & Cons
Gravitee
Pros
Free, actively maintained open-source Community Edition with no artificial feature caps on core gateway functionality
Unlimited API calls and events per gateway rather than metered usage pricing, which makes costs predictable at scale
Native support for both REST/GraphQL APIs and Kafka-style event streaming in one platform
Early, dedicated tooling for governing AI agents and MCP servers rather than bolting AI support onto a legacy product
Cons
Commercial tiers above the entry Planet plan require a custom quote, making upfront cost comparison difficult
Gateway-based pricing can get expensive quickly for organizations that need many production gateways for isolation
Smaller ecosystem and third-party plugin marketplace compared to larger incumbents like Kong or Apigee
Self-hosting the Community Edition requires in-house DevOps expertise for scaling and upgrades
swiftype
Pros
Self-serve setup with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required
Crawler-based indexing means no need to build custom search infrastructure
Built-in relevance tuning, synonyms, and multilingual support
SOC 2 compliant with documented security practices
Backed by Elastic, a major search-industry vendor, since its 2017 acquisition
Cons
Pricing scales quickly with usage (documents, queries, engines, and domains are all metered add-ons)
Standard plan only crawls weekly, which may be too slow for fast-changing content
Now a legacy product line under Elastic, whose enterprise search focus has shifted toward App Search/Enterprise Search on the Elastic Stack
Enterprise-grade features (dedicated hardware, account manager, custom SLA) are gated behind a custom-quoted Premium plan
Use Cases
Gravitee
Enterprise API governance — Centralizing design, security and monitoring for hundreds of internal and partner-facing APIs behind a consistent gateway and access policy.
Event-driven architecture mediation — Applying access control, schema governance and monitoring to Kafka topics and event streams alongside conventional REST APIs.
AI agent and MCP governance — Applying rate limits, authentication and observability to AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers as they connect to internal systems.