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Azure API Center enables you to track all your APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance. Use an API center to develop and maintain a structured and organized inventory of your organization's APIs - regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location - along with related information such as version details, API definition files, and common metadata.
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> You can get started quickly with API Center by taking advantage of the Free plan, which has no time constraints. Compare the [Free plan and Standard plan limits](/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits?toc=/azure/api-center/toc.json&bc=/azure/api-center/breadcrumb/toc.json#azure-api-center-limits).
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> You can get started quickly with Azure API Center by taking advantage of the Free plan, which has no time constraints. Compare the [Free plan and Standard plan limits](/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits?toc=/azure/api-center/toc.json&bc=/azure/api-center/breadcrumb/toc.json#azure-api-center-limits).
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By using an API center, stakeholders throughout your organization, including API program managers, IT administrators, application developers, and API developers can design, discover, reuse, and govern APIs.
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-**Govern your organization's APIs**: Access more complete visibility into the APIs being developed and used within your organization. API program managers and IT administrators can govern this inventory to ensure it meets organizational standards by **defining custom metadata** and **analyzing API definitions** to enforce conformance to API style guidelines.
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-**Easy API discovery**: Promote API reuse to maximize developer productivity and ensure developers are using the right APIs. API Center helps program managers and developers discover the API inventory and filter by using built-in and custom metadata.
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-**Easy API discovery**: Promote API reuse to maximize developer productivity and ensure developers are using the right APIs. Azure API Center helps program managers and developers discover the API inventory and filter by using built-in and custom metadata.
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-**Accelerate API consumption**: Maximize developer productivity when consuming APIs and ensure they're consumed in a secure manner consistent with organizational standards.
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API developers can shift-left API design conformance checks into Visual Studio Code by using integrated linting support and breaking change detection. Integrate with tools such as Dev Proxy to ensure apps don't use unregistered [shadow APIs](discover-shadow-apis-dev-proxy.md) or APIs that don't meet organizational standards.
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-**API discovery and reuse**: Enable enterprise developers and API program managers to discover APIs through an [API Center portal](set-up-api-center-portal.md). You can also enable the portal by using the [Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension](enable-api-center-portal-vs-code-extension.md).
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-**API discovery and reuse**: Enable enterprise developers and API program managers to discover APIs through an [Azure API Center portal](set-up-api-center-portal.md). You can also enable the portal by using the [Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension](enable-api-center-portal-vs-code-extension.md).
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For more information about the entities you can manage and the capabilities in API Center, see [Key concepts](key-concepts.md).
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For more information about the entities you can manage and the capabilities in Azure API Center, see [Key concepts](key-concepts.md).
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## Tiers and SKUs
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* West Europe
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## API Center and the API ecosystem
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## Azure API Center and the API ecosystem
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Azure API Center can serve a key role in an organization's API ecosystem. Consider the hypothetical Contoso organization, which adopts an API-first strategy, emphasizing the importance of APIs in their software development and integration.
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Contoso's API developers, app developers, API program managers, and API managers collaborate through Azure API Center to develop and use the organization's API inventory. The following diagram and explanation demonstrates this scenario:
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:::image type="content" source="media/overview/api-ecosystem-example.png" alt-text="Diagram showing Azure API Center in an example API ecosystem.":::
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:::image type="content" source="media/overview/api-ecosystem-example.png" border="false" alt-text="Diagram showing Azure API Center in an example API ecosystem.":::
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Contoso's API ecosystem includes the following features:
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-**Azure API Management**: Contoso uses the Azure [API Management](../api-management/api-management-key-concepts.md) service to manage, publish, and secure their APIs. They use separate instances for development, test, and production, each with a distinct name.
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-**Azure API Center**: Contoso adopts Azure API Center as their centralized hub for API discovery, governance, and consumption. API Center serves as a structured and organized API hub that provides comprehensive information about all organizational APIs, maintaining related information including versions and associated deployments.
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-**Azure API Center**: Contoso adopts Azure API Center as their centralized hub for API discovery, governance, and consumption. Azure API Center serves as a structured and organized API hub that provides comprehensive information about all organizational APIs, maintaining related information including versions and associated deployments.
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## Related content
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-[Set up your API center (Azure portal)](set-up-api-center.md)
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-[Create your API center (Azure portal)](set-up-api-center.md)
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