Hive
by Hive · Open-source schema registry, analytics and gateway for GraphQL federation
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Overview
Hive is an MIT-licensed platform for managing GraphQL APIs. Its schema registry publishes and composes federated subgraphs and flags breaking changes and composition errors, alongside usage analytics and a gateway (Hive Gateway in JavaScript, Hive Router in Rust) with Apollo Federation v1 and v2 support. It can be used as a hosted service or self-hosted.
- Best for
- Teams running federated GraphQL APIs that want a self-hostable schema registry and gateway
- Pricing
- Hobby is free with 1M operations a month, Pro is $20/month including 1M operations then $10 per additional million, and Enterprise is a custom contract.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- MIT licensed; self-host on your own infrastructure
- All features on every plan, including SSO and RBAC
- Apollo Federation v1 and v2; migration path from GraphOS
- Free plan covers 1M operations and unlimited seats
Trade-offs
- Usage data retention is 7 days on Hobby and 90 days on Pro
- Beyond 1M operations, Pro charges $10 per extra million
- SLA, dedicated Slack and onboarding only on Enterprise
How Hive markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Hive’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Open-Source GraphQL Federation Platform”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Hive’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
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