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Apollo GraphQL Advances API Orchestration With General Availability of Apollo Connectors and GraphOS Platform Enhancements

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February 19, 2025


Enterprises and Developers Can Now Unlock API Value Using GraphQL Faster, More Efficiently, and at Scale

Early Adopter Cox Automotive Deploys Apollo Connectors, Avoids Yearlong Software Overhaul

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 2025 — Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration company, today announced the general availability of Apollo Connectors for REST APIs and new GraphOS platform enhancements — giving enterprises a faster, more efficient way to execute their API strategies. These innovations enable organizations to seamlessly integrate REST APIs into a composable GraphQL architecture without writing boilerplate code, reducing operational overhead and accelerating application development. With a new free pricing plan, Apollo is making its modern, declarative and standards-based GraphQL API orchestration platform more accessible than ever, allowing teams to start small and scale as their needs grow.

API Orchestration for the AI Era

APIs power modern applications from SaaS and web apps, to Internet of Things and AI-driven services. As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, the need for seamless, scalable API orchestration has never been greater. They need tools that minimize complexity and maximize agility in order to enable AI-powered applications, improve service performance, and optimize API investment returns. Apollo’s latest releases eliminate traditional design hurdles by reducing cost and risk, providing a declarative approach to API orchestration that allows teams to easily orchestrate APIs for maximum efficiency.

“No matter what you’re building, whether it’s cloud modernization, agentic AI, or personalized apps and features, it’s powered by APIs,” said Matt DeBergalis, CTO and cofounder of Apollo GraphQL. “Today, developers spend an enormous fraction of their time writing code to orchestrate how those APIs are called, adding time and complexity to every project. With Apollo Connectors, teams can now adopt declarative, standards-based GraphQL for every orchestration workload, large or small, in less time and with less risk than the alternative. We’re excited to see GraphQL become the new standard for API orchestration in the cloud-native era.”

Apollo Connectors: Unlocking API Value, Faster

Apollo Connectors are the easiest way to orchestrate APIs. Whether already leveraging GraphQL or just beginning the journey, Apollo Connectors dramatically speeds up development, reduces costs, and preserves existing technology investments.

Key benefits include:

  • Faster API Integration: Orchestrate multiple REST APIs into a GraphQL endpoint through pure declarative configuration in minutes — no more wrestling with complex middleware or boilerplate code through standards-based federation architecture.

  • Performance Optimization: Reduce network hops, cut API latency and improve application performance.

  • Built-In Tooling for Developers: Native integration with Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ plugins, offering auto-completion, debugging and real-time schema validation.

GraphOS Platform Enhancements: Unprecedented Performance Gains

The new native query planner introduced in Router 2.0, the runtime plane of the GraphOS platform, now delivers next-generation performance for federated GraphQL architectures. This ground-up rewrite improves query execution speed, reduces infrastructure costs and enhances scalability.

Key benefits include:

  • Faster Performance & Lower Latency: 10x median performance boost and 7x improvement in p99 latency for mission-critical apps.

  • Lower Costs & Better Efficiency: Optimized query execution cuts cloud costs while enhancing speed.

  • Easy Integration: Works seamlessly with Apollo Connectors — no changes needed to existing federated GraphQL deployments.

Cox Automotive: Transforming API Strategy With Apollo Connectors

Early results of adopting Apollo Connectors are encouraging. Cox Automotive, the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider, used Apollo Connectors for their complex vehicle data ecosystem while preserving their substantial investment in REST APIs. 

“Apollo Connectors really accelerated our API modernization and monetization roadmap,” said Mark Meiller, Principal Platform Engineer at Cox Automotive. “What would have been a yearlong rewrite of our foundational vehicle data layer has become a two-day implementation. By connecting our existing REST API into our federated graph, we avoided over a million dollars in development costs while improving performance. Complex vehicle data logic that would have required extensive rewriting, and frankly, was seen as an insurmountable task, is now transformed into a few lines of declarative code.”

Apollo Extends GraphQL’s Position as the Leading API Orchestration Technology — Get Started Today

Apollo Connectors and GraphOS Router 2.0 are now generally available — giving teams everything they need to orchestrate REST APIs, reduce complexity and accelerate development. 

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About Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL helps developers build better software by providing a declarative, graph-based API orchestration platform. Apollo’s open-source software is downloaded 25M times per month and its commercial GraphQL technologies power the most innovative brands today. Teams at Coinbase, New York Times, and Wayfair ship personalized, omnichannel experiences faster with a supergraph — a self-service GraphQL platform that spans any number of backend services. Serving over 5T requests in 2024, the Apollo GraphOS® platform simplifies API development with workflows and infrastructure to build, test, and ship supergraphs at any scale. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.