Contact us
Start for free

Press Release

Apollo GraphQL Recognized for First Time in 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Report

Share this article

April 29, 2026


Apollo scores 98% willingness-to-recommend rate and 4.7 out of 5 stars from 55 verified enterprise customers as of January 31, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2026 – Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, today announced its first ever placement in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” report for API Management. The company has an overall rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars from 55 verified reviews, and 98% of reviewers said they would recommend Apollo to their peers.

In the report’s four-quadrant view, which categorizes vendors by Overall Experience and User Interest and Adoption, Apollo is a Strong Performer in its very first appearance in the report. Apollo also scored across key evaluated categories. In Product Capabilities and Sales Experience, Apollo earned 4.6 out of 5, ranking 2nd overall in both. In Support Experience, Apollo earned 4.5 out of 5, with two other vendors for 2nd overall. 

Apollo's recognition comes at a defining moment for enterprise software. The same Gartner research that projects 60% of enterprises will use GraphQL in production by 2028 up from less than 40% in 2026 also notes that schema federation is now the preferred approach for large-scale, dynamic, and AI-integrated platforms over approaches like schema stitching. Federation is becoming the architectural foundation through which enterprises govern how AI agents access their systems. As the company that introduced Apollo Federation, the industry's leading implementation of this architecture, more than five years ago, and delivers it today through Apollo GraphOS®, Apollo is positioned at the center of that convergence: the layer where API orchestration and agentic AI meet.

“We feel this recognition reflects not just what we’ve built into GraphOS, but what our customers are actually running in production,” said Matt DeBergalis, CEO and co-founder of Apollo GraphQL. “What makes this moment particularly meaningful to us is the context: enterprises are now asking their API infrastructure to do something entirely new. They're connecting AI agents to their systems, and that creates questions about access, identity, and governance that the infrastructure layer has to answer. Apollo has been sitting in that request path for a decade – for companies like Netflix, Walmart, and Indeed. We think that's exactly the right place to be as the agentic era takes hold.”

A selection of Apollo customer reviews from the research are as follows:

  • “Excellent at allowing our teams onboard quickly to the graph without them needing to setup everything from scratch.” – Software Developer in Media 

  • “The overall experience with Apollo GraphOS has been amazing. It has provided us with good visibility on our subgraphs.” – Engineer in Real Estate 

  • “The Apollo Connector is something I was interested in as we have a lot of REST services and we plan to leverage that for our company.” – Senior Staff Software Engineer in Banking 

  • “Ease of setting up applications from scratch and the latest products with Apollo Connectors for REST APIs making it a breeze.” – Software Developer in Media

Every digital experience – from the applications developers ship today to the AI agents enterprises are deploying for tomorrow – is built on APIs. As AI systems begin operating across enterprise data in real time, coordination alone isn't enough. What's needed is a context layer: a governed, semantic foundation that tells agents not just what data exists, but what it means, who can access it, and under what conditions. The unified, graph-based architecture Apollo has been building for the past decade is emerging as exactly that layer. Apollo GraphOS provides the platform for enterprises to build and govern that graph at scale, with the consistency and control that production AI deployments require.

Resources:

Disclaimers

Gartner® and Peer Insights™ are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner® Peer InsightsTM content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner, When to Use GraphQL to Accelerate API Delivery, By Shameen Pillai, Tigran Egiazarov, 23 February 2026. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

About Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL helps developers build better software faster with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration. With over 1 billion downloads of its open-source software, Apollo has become the standard for working with GraphQL and powers the most innovative brands today. The Apollo GraphOS® platform provides the infrastructure to unify APIs into a composable graph, enabling teams to connect AI agents, query data from anywhere, and ship new experiences with speed and confidence. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures, Apollo is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.