Is Apollo GraphQL secure?

Legit.Show measured Apollo GraphQL's Security frame at 90/100. Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Apollo GraphQL?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

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Apollo GraphQL

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-17 — deterministic & reproducible

Apollo GraphQL provides a platform for building and managing GraphQL APIs at scale.

87/100

7/7 frames

Top 21% of 14,248 measured

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-17 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Apollo GraphQL 87/100 on 2026-09-17, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/apollographql-com/2026-09-17

Is Apollo GraphQL production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Apollo GraphQL 87 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Apollo GraphQL (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 57/100
Accessibility — 92/100
Security — 90/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 70/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 100/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 563 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who built it

product account @apollographql

Who it's for

Developers · Enterprises · AI agents · Web and mobile apps

Pricing

Developer plan free with $50 credit; volume-based tiered pricing starting at $5.00 per million standard requests (first 250M), scaling down to $3.00 per million (over 5B); subscription events from $2.

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from apollographql.com's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator: Apollo Graph Inc., as named in apollographql.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-17.

Put together from public information, without Apollo GraphQL's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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