Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway clearly comes out ahead of AWS Bedrock Agents on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Amazon API Gateway has a free tier; AWS Bedrock Agents does not.
| Overview |  Amazon API GatewayFully managed service to create, publish, and secure APIs at any scale. | AWS Bedrock AgentsManaged AWS service for building and orchestrating AI agents. |
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | saas tool |
| Company | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon Web Services |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| Industries | DevelopmentData & AnalyticsSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentData & AnalyticsCybersecurity & InfoSecSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | api-management | ai-chatbotai-agents-frameworks |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
Amazon API Gateway
freemium
usage based
usage based
| Feature | amazon-api-gateway | aws-bedrock-agents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Million Http Api Calls Received Per Month | ||
| No Minimum Fees | ||
| 1 Million Rest Api Calls Received Per Month | ||
| No Upfront Commitments | ||
| 1 Million Websocket Api Messages Per Month | ||
| Pay For Feature Infrastructure Usage (Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails) | ||
| 750,000 Websocket Connection Minutes Per Month | ||
| Pay For Model Inference (Tokens) | ||
| Optional Data Caching | ||
| Pay For Api Calls Received | ||
| Pay For Data Transferred Out |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Amazon API Gateway comes out ahead overall, though AWS Bedrock Agents can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Amazon API Gateway offers a free tier; AWS Bedrock Agents does not currently list one.
