[hcentelles]

I’ve being waiting for a product like this for some time now, I think there is a huge (not yet served) market for this. I’ve tried to implement something using Cloudflare workers, but failed, also tried to use Apollo Cloud trough a Apollo Federation server in front of my (non Apollo Server) API, failed too.

Some questions:

How it compares with Apollo Cloud on feature set terms?

My graphql server load is like 20 request/s average. At first the pricing looks a little bit intimidating for me, but running the numbers it looks like $500/m, is that right? Hopefully it will offset some of my origin servers costs.

What count as a request? Just request coming from the “outside” or also calls to purge for example?

I’ll be trying GraphCDN soon, maybe even today.

Good luck

[timsuchanek]

Thanks @hcentelles, that's great to hear and gives us validation that there is a need!

Compared to Apollo Cloud: We're mostly focused on the caching part right now and have a different architecture where we are in your stack. Apollo runs a sidecar next to your application. We are a proxy in front of your API.

When it comes to the analytics part - which Apollo rather calls metrics, I think Apollo gives you field-level information, while we for now just have query-level information. However, we are fully server agnostic - you don't need to use Apollo Server. Any GraphQL API works. You just need to switch the URL in your clients. We even have customers just using the analytics part for now and disabling the caching in the beginning.

For the pricing: That is correct - you'd have about 50mio requests a month, so $500. However, the pricing there is not set in stone and we're happy to give you an early discount. Just contact us at [e-mail].

Right now only outside requests count as a request, no matter if cached or not. Purging calls might also count in the future.

[hcentelles]

Thanks for the quick (good news) answer. I’ve more questions

We use Apollo client, I’m worried about 2 specific features of it:

Batch queries [1], we’re currently using it.

Persisted queries [2], we’re planning to using it.

Are those compatible with GraphCDN?

1. https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/link/apollo-lin...

2. https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/link/persisted-...

[mxstbr]

We "support" batched and persisted queries in the sense that we don't break them, we pass them through to your origin, but we don't currently analyse them. Caching / analytics support for both of them is on our roadmap[0] in the near-term for sure!

[0]: https://graphcdn.io/feedback

[hcentelles]

Oh, it seems like I’ll have to wait for that, at least for batch queries support.

I’ll try to keep myself updated on your changelog.

[0xy]

Apollo Cloud pricing is absurd at the enterprise level. I worked at two large companies who inquired and both balked.

It was cheaper to build our own solution with plugins than it was to use their solution.

[timsuchanek]

Interesting to know. For enterprises we even go down with the price per million requests, as the volume is much higher and therefore the enterprise pays enough already.