IBM software · API management
Your REST APIs, ready for AI agents as MCP tools.* Your price in one business day.
For the teams who publish and protect APIs: IBM API Connect, sized to your call volume and gateways by our engineering team and priced before you commit.
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Your next API platform can serve AI agents.
- It republishes your existing REST APIs as MCP tools that agents can discover.
- It applies governance and access controls, and tracks usage with built-in analytics.
- It gives developers one portal to discover your APIs and subscribe to them.
The APIs you run today may be serving you well. This is what API Connect adds.
We size it with you. You see your price first, within one business day. Where you want to try it first, IBM offers a 30-day trial, and one of our engineers sets it up beside you.
Build, publish, protect.
Built and governed as code.
IBM says API Studio is an AI-powered workspace that unites authoring, testing and governance, all managed as code. The API Agent automates key tasks across the API lifecycle.
Published to people and agents.
IBM’s Developer Portal is where application developers and API consumers discover your APIs. IBM says existing REST APIs can be republished as MCP tools, so agents can securely discover and invoke them.*
Protected as traffic flows.
API Connect secures traffic with DataPower Gateway. Akamai Advanced API Security for IBM adds an inventory of your APIs and monitors for data tampering and leakage, policy violations, suspicious behavior and API attacks.
Source: IBM’s API Connect page, opened October 24, 2026.
Three of IBM’s own figures.
Sub-second startup.
IBM says the DataPower Nano Gateway offers declarative policy control and sub-second startup at the API product level.*
Up to 99.95%.
IBM lists an SLA of up to 99.95% for the Reserved Instance plan, single-tenant on IBM Cloud, and 99.9% for its plans hosted on AWS.
A 30-day trial.
IBM offers a 30-day free trial of API Connect.
* IBM’s words and figures, from its API Connect page and its API Connect pricing page, read October 24, 2026. IBM states no test conditions for the sub-second startup; the SLA figures are the ones IBM lists for each plan.
Source: IBM’s API Connect page, opened October 24, 2026.
Count the API calls first.
IBM sets its API Connect plans by annual API call volume, instances, analytics retention and SLA: Pay-as-you-Go, Standard and Premium hosted on AWS, Reserved Instance on IBM Cloud, or software you run on premises, in a hybrid cloud or across clouds. We work out your call volume and plan with you before you order.
API security on its own, too.
Akamai Advanced API Security for IBM deploys on premises or in any cloud, and can be quoted beside API Connect or on its own. Where there is a cheaper route, we name it.
Source: IBM’s API Connect page, opened October 24, 2026.
What you get.
If you build and run applications.
You get one portal where developers discover and subscribe to your APIs, and your REST APIs republished as MCP tools for agents.* Our engineering team sets up your first API products with you.
If you own security.
You get an inventory of your APIs and monitoring for data tampering, leakage, policy violations and API attacks, with Akamai Advanced API Security for IBM. Our engineering team sets it up beside your gateways.
If you are the CIO.
You get API Connect as SaaS or software, on a plan set by your annual API call volume, chosen before you order. Pay only for what you need. See your price first, within one business day.
You have real choices. Here is each one, plainly.
Keep the API platform you have.
Nothing to buy. Nothing to move. What API Connect adds will still be here when you are ready.
Buy from IBM itself.
IBM sells directly to fewer than about 100 companies and organizations in the United States. Everyone else buys through an IBM Business Partner. So the real choice is which partner.
Buy through another IBM Business Partner.
Same IBM software. Same IBM programs. Ask three things: who sizes your call volume and gateways, how soon you see the price, and who stays with you through your first API products.
Choose a different API management product.
Right when your team already runs it everywhere. Compare three things: REST APIs republished as MCP tools, governance managed as code, and a gateway with sub-second startup.
Use your cloud provider’s API gateway.
Right when every API and every consumer of it lives in that one cloud. Not when your APIs run on premises, in a hybrid cloud or across several clouds.
Buy it through us.
You get the same IBM software. And you get our engineering team: we size your call volume and plan with you, show you your price first, and stay with you through setup and support.
IBM builds API Connect. We size it with you.
You see your price first.
Tell us what you’re after. One business day later you have a price, sized to fit, with nothing in it you don’t need.
Our engineering team owns it.
The engineers who size it set it up and stay through support. IBM Business Partner since 2008, 29 of 29 IBM proficiencies, one team the whole way.
It is our pleasure to meet you.
230 briefing centers in 113 cities. Pick one; one of our engineers brings the coffee. Or meet us online.
Our engineering team inventories your APIs and gateways with you, sizes the plan to your call volume, picks SaaS or software, gets the licensing right, then sets up your developer portal and supports it.
It would be our pleasure to size yours.
How our engineering team delivers
Get it running.
Our engineering team, with IBM Expert Labs (formerly IBM Lab Services)
Plan.
We look at what you run today and agree the order of work with you. Delivered remotely.
Stay connected.
After go-live, IBM’s specialists stay on call beside our IBM engineers.
One statement of work and one invoice, from us.
One of our engineers replies within one business day.
The proof.
IBM’s published results
Source: IBM’s API Connect page, opened October 24, 2026.
Our trusted and valued customers are shown on our home page. It is our privilege to work for them. See our customers
We would rather tell you now. API Connect is not the fit if every API and every consumer lives in one cloud and that cloud’s gateway covers them, or if what you need is to connect applications to each other rather than publish APIs. For that, ask us about IBM App Connect. See IBM Integration and MQ
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