Layoff
May 2025Employees posted that Apollo GraphQL carried out a company-wide layoff affecting a large portion of GTM and most of the People team.
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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Apollo GraphQL is a remote-first, globally distributed developer-tools company that builds GraphOS: a supergraph/API orchestration platform for unifying GraphQL and REST APIs, managing schemas, and safely operating APIs at enterprise scale.
Primary product
Apollo GraphOS
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
220+
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
GraphQL API orchestration / developer tools
Offices
201 California Street, San Francisco, CA (new headquarters, as of 2025)
1600 Bryant Street #411447, SMB#20356, San Francisco, CA 94141 (legal address)
Distributed remote-first workforce across 10 countries and 13 time zones
Business model
open-source software
SaaS subscriptions
usage-based pricing
enterprise contracts
support/services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Head of Finance
Simon McCann
Head of Global Sales
VP of Marketing
Head of People & Talent Acquisition
Chief Customer Officer
VP of Product
Chief Marketing Officer
Work & culture
Apollo describes itself as smart, kind, flexible, and remote-first, with a globally distributed team and values centered on empowering others, stewardship, caring, and growth mindset.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public salary bands were found; Apollo signals competitive, country-specific benefits and usage-based pricing for customers, but not employee compensation ranges.
Benefits
Flexible Time Off (FTO)
parental leave
country-specific benefits packages
remote-first culture
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium plus usage-based GraphOS pricing; Free, Developer, Standard, and Enterprise tiers, with Developer starting at $5 per million requests and Enterprise/Standard custom-priced.
Differentiators
- —GraphOS supergraph platform for orchestrating GraphQL and REST APIs
- —Apollo Connectors for bringing REST APIs into GraphQL without boilerplate
- —Hybrid deployment options with cloud and self-hosted router support
- —Field-level access control, schema governance, and observability
- —Strong open-source ecosystem with Apollo Client, Server, Router, and Federation
- —Usage-based pricing with a free tier
- —MCP/AI-oriented API orchestration features
Technology
GraphQL
Apollo GraphOS
Apollo Connectors
Apollo Router
Apollo Federation
Apollo Client
OpenTelemetry
Kubernetes
TypeScript
Rust
JavaScript
Swift
Kotlin
React
Python
Terraform
Docker
Datadog
CircleCI
PostgreSQL
Customers
Netflix
Walmart
Expedia Group
The New York Times
PayPal
Wayfair
DoorDash
Intuit
Coinbase
Block
Indeed
Wiz
Yahoo
AlphaSense
Booking.com
Competitors
Hasura
StepZen
WunderGraph
Kong
MuleSoft
Apigee
AWS API Gateway
Azure API Management
Google Cloud API Gateway
The Guild
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$30M-$40M
Estimated monthly visits
14.2K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Apollo GraphQL blog · Jul 2026
Apollo introduced new usage-based pricing plans, including Developer and Standard plans, plus enhanced MCP Server and other GraphOS upgrades.
Apollo GraphQL blog · May 2026
Apollo said it opened a new San Francisco headquarters at 201 California Street while reaffirming that remote work remains core to its operating model.
Apollo GraphQL newsroom · Oct 2025
Apollo launched MCP Server 1.0, GraphOS MCP Tools, and the GraphOS Operator for Kubernetes, emphasizing agentic AI and enterprise API orchestration.
Apollo GraphQL newsroom · Jun 2025
Apollo expanded MCP Server and GraphOS with AI-ready capabilities, performance improvements, and new subscription plans; the release said GraphOS orchestrates over 1 trillion operations monthly.
Apollo GraphQL newsroom · Feb 2025
Apollo announced GA for Apollo Connectors for REST APIs and GraphOS Router 2.0, positioning GraphOS as a faster, more accessible API orchestration platform.
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