Bundle API Functions & API Rate Limiting into Service Contracts

Create subscription services. Bundle methods and functionalities of your API as well as any metric of your choice into “plans” based on your business model.

Make your API available “as a Product”, whether free or paying. Define pricing rules using 3scale Billing & Payments module.

API Business Model: Fine-tune your API business model and bundle functionalities into subscription plans.

API as a Product: Let developers chose their API product among the ones your have defined.

Service Agreement: Manage the service relationship and their evolution between you and your API users.

Control API Traffic and Enforce API Rate Limiting Policies

Control traffic and enforce api rate limiting policies to protect your back-end from an overload. Rate-limit by client, Apps. IP, domain, method, metric or End user. Block out inefficient or malicious clients.

API Rate Limiting: Set rate limits and quotas. Manage access by API key, method, metric, referrer IP, or domain.

API Traffic Monitoring: Configure and set violation alerts. Get alerted when traffic quota thresholds have been reached.

API Throttling: Easily suspend access to your API for inefficient or malicious clients.