GCP – Google Cloud Apigee Named a Leader for the 10th Consecutive Time in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management
We are excited to share that Google has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, positioned highest for our Ability to Execute — marking our tenth consecutive recognition.
Google was positioned highest in Ability to Execute of all vendors evaluated. We believe this reflects our commitment supporting traditional API use cases, but also in providing a bridge for our customers to AI and agentic AI management, using the same familiar platform and native controls.
Extending API management to gen AI and agentic AI
The rise of AI and agentic workloads is powered by an API nervous system. While AI tools create powerful possibilities, organizations often hit roadblocks moving from pilot to production. At issue are managing, securing, and scaling these solutions — especially with LLMs and the agents that leverage them in highly regulated environments.
Apigee, Google Cloud’s native API management platform, bridges this gap. We are extending our proven capabilities directly to your AI initiatives, helping them deliver real, measurable business value.
Apigee functions as the intelligent, secure proxy for all your AI agents, tools, and backend models, enhancing their security, scalability, and governance. By serving as this crucial gateway, Apigee helps secure agentic workloads against risks, ensures operations are on governed data, and helps control costs.
Managing, governing, and securing agentic AI
A variety of Apigee capabilities help enterprise API and AI platform teams move AI initiatives into production. These capabilities include:
AI productization
API products are the the center of the Apigee platform, enabling platform teams to bundle discrete API operations into a product, manage access and quota, and make it available for consumption. Today, Apigee is helping teams move toward AI productization, bundling tools including third-party integrations (from Application Integration), agentic tools such as MCP servers, and of course APIs, into an AI product. This promotes developer reuse, granular access control, and monetization, so organizations can unlock new revenue streams.
Agent-ready tools
Apigee’s new API specification boosting capability (currently in Private Preview), based on a multi-agent tool built by Google DeepMind, automatically enhances existing API specifications to make them more discoverable by agents. It does so by including comprehensive examples, error scenarios, and business logic derived from your organization’s API patterns.
AI cost management
Customers use Apigee’s native quota policies to enforce token limits at the API or AI product level. Our integration with Looker Studio (a free Google Cloud service) provides API platform teams with the ability to create custom reports on AI token usage that can be shared externally with stakeholders.
Centralized tool catalog and observability
Apigee API hub provides a centralized catalog in which to store information about their APIs, MCP servers, and third-party integrations. Built-in semantic search capabilities powered by Gemini help teams discover and reuse tools. Thanks to the Apigee API hub toolset for Agent Development Kit (ADK), developers building custom agents using ADK can easily give agents access to tools from Apigee API hub with a single line of code. API traffic and performance data is integrated into the catalog for access by humans and agents. Further, these same semantic capabilities drive emerging use cases for semantic tool identification.
Tool security and compliance
Apigee’s 60+ policies include security policies to help keep tools protected and safe, including native policies for AI safety using Model Armor. Additionally, Apigee Advanced API Security integrates natively with Apigee’s runtime, providing enhanced security capabilities like dynamic API security posture management and abuse detection powered by Google-engineered machine learning models. Finally, Apigee’s enhanced data residency capabilities help support compliant workloads worldwide.
Multi-cloud model routing
Apigee serves as a proxy between agents and backend LLM models, connecting agents with tools and providing routing to backend LLM models hosted on and off Google Cloud. Apigee’s circuit-breaking capabilities help ensure that AI and agentic applications remain highly available.
Apigee: Trusted by global leaders
Global leaders trust Apigee to manage mission-critical APIs at scale, even in highly regulated industries. We are committed to continuously investing in Apigee to ensure it remains a world-class, trusted service that meets the evolving needs of our customers. In our opinion, this recognition from Gartner reinforces our commitment to continuous innovation and the delivery of an exceptional developer experience.
Thank you to our customers and partners
We’re incredibly grateful to our community of customers, developers, and partners for your continued support and trust in Apigee. Your feedback and collaboration are invaluable in driving our product roadmap and helping us deliver reliable API management experience.
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