Software AG offers webMethods API Gateway in a Free Forever Edition (FFE) for you to gain unlimited access to the key capabilities of API Gateway at no cost for however long you want to use. You can explore the free version of our product before upgrading to a paid plan for additional benefits. For comparison of all the available editions, see the Pricing page on Software AG Cloud portal. For subscribing to a paid edition, contact Software AG.
Sign up using Software AG Cloud portal. Ensure to read the Free Edition Cloud Services Agreement when you sign up.
Setting up the FFE tenant might take a few minutes. Software AG sends an e-mail to your registered e-mail address with the tenant details. Open the URL provided to you in the e-mail and login using the username and password that you provided during sign-up.
Now that you have logged on to the webMethods API Gateway tenant, you can start using API Gateway.
For quick reference, see Create REST API, Create SOAP API, Create Graph QL API, Publish API.
Software AG provisions webMethods API Gateway in Software AG Cloud platform. You can also explore other Software AG products from the Software AG MyCloud page.
The number of API transactions is restricted to 10000 per month. The transactions count reset at the start of every month.
When you cross the limit before the end of the month, your API transactions fail with a 429 response code, and a header in the response shows the number of days remaining for the transactions to reset.
Example: Retry-After: 15 day(s)
Ensure to activate the Transaction Logging Global policy to check API transactions count:
Click Policies in the title navigation bar.
Click Global policies.
Activate the Transaction Logging policy, which is pre-configured in your API Gateway tenant. For more details on the policy, see Global Policies.
To monitor API transactions count:
Click 
> Analytics to see API Gateway-wide analytics dashboard.
Use the filter to choose the desired time interval.
Hover over the pie chart in the Overall events section to view the transactions count. For more details on the analytics dashboard, see Analytics.
Your FFE tenant is subject to shut down under the following circumstances. However, if you log in or perform API transactions in your FFE tenant daily, your tenant is not shut down.
If you do not log in or perform API transactions in your tenant for 24 hours, your tenant is shut down.
To re-start API Gateway, log on to the webMethods API Gateway tenant and click Start API Gateway.
Initiating your tenant might take 30 minutes.
If you are not an administrator, the following message appears:
If you do not perform any transactions in your FFE tenant over a period, you will receive an e-mail prompting you to use the tenant within a specified period. Failure to do so will result in the suspension of your account.
If your account is inactive even after the provided time, then you will receive another e-mail stating that your FFE tenant is suspended for a specified period. During suspension, you cannot log in through the App switcher, product URL, or invoke APIs. Only the Cloud Tenant Administrator can reactivate a suspended account.
If no tenant reactivation request is received within the provided time, the FFE tenant is Deleted. Once deleted, the tenant cannot be reactivated.
Your FFE tenant is automatically upgraded to the latest fix whenever it releases. You can check the version of your tenant in the About page. For details on the readme, go to the Docs website, choose webMethods API Gateway and select Release Readme. The Release readme page contains information about the latest major release and its fixess.