On December 19, 2025, we released an updated version of Apigee Monetization.

Feature

Monetization now supports AppGroups. Use AppGroups to manage API product subscriptions for all app developers in the AppGroup at the same time.

For more information, see Use AppGroups to manage API product subscriptions.

On July 26, 2024, we released an updated version of Apigee Monetization.

Feature

Monetization functionality, including rate plan creation and managing rate plans for API Products, is now available in the Apigee UI in Cloud Console.

For information, see Manage Rate Plans and Create API Products.

Feature

Monetization now supports data residency. Data residency meets compliance and regulatory requirements by allowing you to specify the geographic locations (regions) where Monetization data is stored. For more information, see Introduction to data residency.

On November 14, 2022 we released an updated version of the Apigee Monetization software.

Feature

Added support for a new recurring fees

Apigee X now supports optional recurring fees charged to API developers. For more information on fees, see Understanding billing.

On November 10, 2022 we released an updated version of the Apigee Monetization software.

Feature

Added support for a new setup fee

Apigee X now supports an optional setup fee charged to new API developers. For more information on fees, see Understanding billing.

On May 18, 2022 we released an updated version of the Apigee Monetization software.

Feature

Export support for additional monetization-related values

Apigee X now supports export of additional fee-based values for organizations using monetization. For more information, see Generating monetization reports.

On November 3, 2021 we released an updated version of the Apigee Monetization software.

Feature

Volume banded consumption pricing

Rate plan supports the new Banded type of consumption based fees. You can configure variable fees for each monetized transaction based on a band. A band refers to an API consumption range, and you can configure a different fee for each band.

Feature

Revenue sharing with developers

The revenue sharing feature enables developers to receive a percentage of the total revenue generated. As an API provider, you can configure Revenue share in your rate plan to share a specific percentage of the revenue with your developer partners.

Deprecated

The rateplans API doesn't support the paymentFundingModel field.

Feature

Criteria for successful transaction

You can specify if a transaction must be monetized or not by configuring the transactionSuccess monetization variable in your DataCapture policy.

Feature

DataCapture policy captures monetization variables

You can configure the DataCapture policy to capture a transaction's monetization information such as revenue, currency, price multiplier, and status. For more information, see Monetization variables.

Feature

Prepaid billing

Apigee now supports the prepaid billing of developers, as well as postpaid billing. In prepaid billing, app developers pay in advance even before using your API products. The upfront payment made by the developers is available in the developer's wallet, which can have different currencies. You can track a developer's balance in real time and block API calls if a developer has insufficient funds.

Feature

Dynamic consumption pricing

To calculate the cost of a transaction, you can specify a multiplier (perUnitPriceMultiplier) value on top of the pre-configured base price in your DataCapture policy.

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