Compare evaluation and paid organizations in Apigee
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This topic compares the lifespan, infrastructure allowances, and scaling capabilities of Apigee's
free trial (evaluation) and paid organization offerings.
You can evaluate Apigee at no cost for 60 days with a trial (evaluation) Apigee organization.
Evaluation organizations are an excellent way to test the functionality and feature offerings of Apigee, subject to the
following limitations:
Free trial (evaluation) organizations are limited to a 60-day lifespan, after which the organization is deleted.
Evaluation organizations are subject to Google'sPre-GA Offerings termsand
should not be used for production workloads or to store sensitive data.
Apigee's evaluation organizations are not regularly updated with the latest Apigee features and security patches.
Evaluation organizations can't be converted to paid organizations.
The following table shows the key differences between Subscription, Pay-as-you-go, and evaluation organizations:
Function
Org Type
Description
Paid/Subscription
Paid/Pay-as-you-go
Evaluation
Lifespan
Based on contract
Until decommissioning of Pay-as-you-go org
60 days
For an eval org, you will get a notification after 30 days that its
lifespan is limited. After 60 days, Google deletes the eval org. You
cannot extend its lifespan. For more information, seeApigee Pricingor
contactApigee Sales.
By default, API proxies can be accessed internally only. You can,
however, configure your load balancer to accept external requests for
either an eval or paid account.
Supported instances
Based on contract
Billed by usage
1
The number of runtime instances.
Environments
Based on contract
Billed by usage
2
The number of runtime environments. Does not affect the number of
environment groups.
Apigee creates two environments during provisioning, so an eval
org must delete one to create a new one.
Runtime fault tolerance
Regional
Regional
Regional
Runtimes for production and evaluation orgs use regional clustering,
which means that if a zone goes down, Apigee can re-route
requests to the runtimes in other zones within the region.
Maximum execution of 500 tasks per day across all the integrations
Maximum of 2 integrations can run in parallel
You can only use the connectors supported in the Apigee eval org's region
Maximum of 4 connections can be created
Organization policy constraints
Yes
Yes
No
If you have CMEK organization policy constraints on your
Google Cloud project, Apigee will enforce compliance with
those constraints, guide you in choosing a valid configuration, and
prevent you from using Apigee features that are not
CMEK compliant.
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