Cloud Endpoints documentation
Endpoints is an API management system that helps you secure,monitor, analyze, and set quotas on your APIs using the same infrastructureGoogle uses for its own APIs.
The Endpoints options
To have your API managed by Cloud Endpoints, you have three options,depending on where your API is hosted and the type of communications protocolyour API uses:
- Cloud Endpoints for OpenAPI
- Cloud Endpoints for gRPC
- Cloud Endpoints Frameworks for the App Engine standard environment
For help on deciding which option is right for you, seeChoosing an Endpoints option.
What's next
See Endpoints features in action by doing theQuickstart for Endpoints,which uses scripts to deploy a sample API to the App Engine flexibleenvironment.
Get familiar with the deployments steps by doing one of the tutorials forthe Endpoints option that you have chosen:
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Last updated 2025-12-15 UTC.