Apirocket

What the product is

Apirocket is a no-code GraphQL API builder with a headless CMS included. Its homepage promises "your GraphQL API without writing a single line of code", and the reader it speaks to is the web developer or small agency building Jamstack sites and apps who wants a backend without writing one. The company describes itself as "a small agency" that does not depend on investors, and the footer credits the product to existo. The pages do not name a city or country. The product is in beta: the calls to action read "Try for free (beta)".

What you build and how

The workflow starts with a data model. You design it without writing code from a catalog of predefined data types, and the company says the most common types and queries are already prepared, with more on the way. Once the model exists, the GraphQL queries and mutations you need are generated for you, so you share an access token and call the API from your site without running any infrastructure. The company's pitch is "from idea to production in minutes, not days".

An "API Explorer" is there for people who do not know GraphQL. You generate and test queries in real time, and once a query does what you want, you copy and paste it into your project. That makes the product usable by a front-end developer who has never written a resolver, and it is the closest thing to a visual query editor on the page.

The headless CMS is the second half of the offer. You manage content online, and you can give your clients the option to update their own content through the CMS, which is how an agency would hand a finished site to a customer. Apirocket stores the documents and files, and it handles image delivery with imgix: images can be adjusted, resized, rotated, cropped and optimized on demand through simple URL parameters, which the company says saves loading time and bandwidth.

Multilingual content is built in. You configure the languages you need, choose which types of content are translated, and keep several versions of your content in different languages. Plan limits count these as locales, so the number of languages is a pricing dimension, covered below.

Delivery runs on Cloudflare technology. The company says it designed an intelligent cache system and serves content through a network of 200 data centers in more than 90 countries, with cache control included. Images are served from the same CDN.

For automation, webhooks let you connect and synchronize the API with other applications. The example the site gives is triggering a Netlify deployment when content is created or edited. It also says you can integrate the API with more than 2000 applications and build your own workflows using Zapier or Integromat.

The product is "designed to work on Jamstack" and described as framework agnostic: the site lists 11ty, Vue, Gatsby, React, Nuxt, Angular and Next, and says you can use whatever you prefer. There is also an open roadmap, which the company offers so the product follows what developers need rather than a business plan, and a Docs link in the header.

The evidence from the pages

The pricing has 3 plans, with an extra layer of pay-per-use rates for going over.

Developer is the free plan, described as ideal for personal projects, prototypes, proofs of concept, MVPs and small commercial projects. It is labeled a "Forever Free Plan" with no credit card required. It includes up to 3 projects, 5 collections per project, 200 documents per collection, 2 locales and 1 user per project. The shared monthly usage quota is 100k API calls, 10GB of bandwidth and 100MB of file storage, and the plan is marked "Soft limits".

Team is $99 a month, aimed at business-focused projects such as complex commercial websites or apps with high traffic. It includes unlimited projects and collections, 5,000 documents per collection, 6 locales and 3 users per project, with a shared monthly quota of 1M API calls, 100GB of bandwidth and 500MB of file storage.

Enterprise starts at $699 a month, for projects that need high availability, very low latency and large-scale infrastructure. It lists unlimited projects, collections, documents, locales and users, unlimited API calls, bandwidth from 3TB a month, file storage from 100GB, and custom pricing through a contact form.

Going over a limit has a price. On the Developer plan the site lists $2 per extra user, $2 per extra locale, $1 per 500 extra documents, $1 per 50k extra API calls, $1 per 2GB of extra traffic and $1 per 50MB of extra storage. On Team the rates are $1 per extra user, $1 per extra locale, $1 per 1k extra documents, $1 per 100k extra API calls, $1 per 5GB of extra traffic and $1 per 100MB of extra storage. A footnote adds that credit card and payment information is required to disable hard limits and start paying per use.

The pages make no compliance claims and publish no customer count. The footer links to security, privacy, terms and cookie pages, plus the docs and the roadmap.

Who it suits and who it does not

Apirocket suits a freelancer or small agency shipping content-driven Jamstack sites, where one tool supplies the content model, the GraphQL endpoint, the editing screen for the client and the image delivery. The free Developer plan is enough for a prototype or a first client site, with 3 projects and the shared quota above. A site that needs several languages gets them from a built-in feature, not a plugin, although the free plan stops at 2 locales and the Team plan at 6.

It is narrower than a general backend builder. The pages describe a data model, generated queries and mutations, a CMS, webhooks and a CDN, and nothing about custom server logic, so anything beyond content and data would live elsewhere, with webhooks and Zapier as the bridge. The pages also describe hosting only through Apirocket's own service. Teams should note that the plan tables mention both soft limits and hard limits that require a card to lift, so check how overage behaves before launching something with real traffic. And because the product is in beta, a team with a long-lived production requirement may want to talk to the company first.