# The Developer Platform for Modern APIs > Unkey unifies your infrastructure. Deploy APIs instantly, route traffic through global gateways, and understand usage in one place. Unkey unifies API deployment, gateways, key management, and observability in one control plane. Stop stitching together hosting, gateways, rate limiting, and monitoring from separate vendors — ship, protect, and understand your APIs from a single platform. Source: https://unkey.com/ Start for free: https://app.unkey.com/ Docs: https://unkey.com/docs Pricing: https://unkey.com/pricing ([Markdown](https://unkey.com/pricing.md)) --- ## One control plane for access and traffic Stop assembling your API stack piece by piece. Running APIs at scale usually means juggling hosting, gateways, rate limits, and monitoring across multiple vendors. - **Faster to ship** — Go from code to running API in minutes. Test safely, promote when ready, roll back if needed. - **Safer by default** — Protect every endpoint with keys, rate limits, and instant access revocation out of the box. - **Simpler to run** — One single unified platform for deployments, gateways, and full observability. - **Visible from day one** — Every request logged. Every decision tracked. Debug issues before users notice. ## Deploy in minutes. Roll back in seconds. Infrastructure that moves with your code. Review changes in preview, then promote the exact version you tested. - **Connect a repo and push code** — Link your Git repository once and deploy automatically on every push. No complex pipelines or manual steps needed. - **Deploy Docker containers** — Run real containers that stay online, keeping the serverless feel while avoiding short-lived runtimes. - **Previews for every commit** — Test changes in a separate environment, then promote when the results look right. - **Ship immutable versions** — Keep releases safe with fast rollback paths, switch back instantly without redeploying. The previous production instance stays running for 30 minutes. - **Validate releases automatically** — Make it really hard to ship broken APIs. OpenAPI diffs automatically flag breaking changes before they hit production. ## Protect and control traffic at the edge Protect and control traffic at the edge. Offload access control and rate limiting to global gateways. - **Auth + Keys** — Manage API keys end to end and control who can call what. - **Global platform** — Edge gateway enforces access and routes requests to the closest instance for low latency. - **Rate limits** — Set limits per IP, user, or key and enforce them close to your users. - **Validation** — Enforce request rules early to catch bad traffic before it hits your API. - **Analytics** — Access real-time insights into your API usage without adding custom instrumentation. ## Scale without managing infrastructure Platform that scales with you. Control, routing, and traffic handling are designed for multi-region from day one. - **Multi-region routing** — Route requests to the nearest region for consistently low latency. - **Automatic scaling** — Capacity follows demand, with no knobs to babysit and no manual ops. - **Predictable pricing** — Start free, then scale up when you're ready and keep billing predictable as you grow. - **Built-in protection** — Lock down access with API keys, edge rate limits, and instant revoke controls. ## Observability, built in Stay in sync with your traffic in real time. Every request is logged. Every decision is visible. - **Automatic logs and metrics collection** — Captures verifications, rate limits, audit logs, HTTP request/response logs, and much more automatically. - **Spot spikes and unusual patterns** — Use metrics to flag anomalies, errors, and performance issues — and feed signals into your alerting stack. - **Debug and explore in the dashboard** — Filter by deployment, user, region, custom tags, and status to quickly understand what’s going on. - **Query via API, from your own systems** — Run analytics queries over your verification data via the HTTP API from your stack. ## Built for production - **High availability** — Unkey deploys multiple replicas in different availability zones so your app survives during outages. - **Proactive protection** — Take immediate control over your system's security with the ability to instantly revoke access, providing swift response to potential threats. ## A developer portal for your users First-class developer experience for your users. API keys, usage, and docs—ready out of the box. - Zero code required. A fully hosted developer portal with nothing to build or maintain. - Beautiful API docs. OpenAPI-generated documentation, hosted by Unkey and always in sync. - Keys and usage, self-serve. Users manage their API keys and view usage without support requests. ## Two products, one platform - **Deployment platform** — Run your APIs as real containers across AWS regions with Git-based deploys, preview environments, immutable versions, and instant rollbacks. Usage charges cover compute, storage, egress, and active keys. - **API Management** — Issue, verify, and manage API keys with globally enforced rate limits, permissions, analytics, and instant revocation. Tiered plans by monthly request volume, with a free tier to start. ## Get started Turn your API stack into one workflow. Start for free, integrate in minutes, and scale when you need to. - Start for free: https://app.unkey.com/ - View on GitHub: https://github.com/unkeyed/unkey - Read the docs: https://unkey.com/docs - See pricing: https://unkey.com/pricing