An API Package refers to a logical grouping of multiple APIs from a single API provider. A package can contain one or more APIs and an API can belong to more than one package. You must have the API Gateway's manage packages and plans functional privilege assigned to manage API packages and plans.

An API Plan is the contract proposal presented to consumers who are about to subscribe to APIs. Plans are offered as tiered offerings with varying availability guarantees, SLAs or cost structures associated with them. An API package can be associated with multiple plans at a time. This helps the API providers in providing tiered access to their APIs to allow different service levels and pricing plans. Though you can edit or delete a plan that has subscribers, Software AG recommends you not to do so.

You can create packages and plans, associate a plan with a package, associate APIs with a package, view the list of packages, package details, and APIs and plans associated with the package in the API Gateway user interface.

When you add an API to a package for monetization, the API key authentication mechanism is automatically added to the IAM policy at API level. If the API already contains an IAM policy that has two authentication mechanisms with the AND condition, then the condition will be switched to OR. This ensures the monetization is supported when certain consumers access the API by just using the API key.