# Apollo Server

Open-source GraphQL server for Node.js that runs as an add-on to new or existing Node.js apps, including Express, Fastify and AWS Lambda.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/apollo-server/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-19
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-19

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/
- repository: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server
- docs: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Apollo Graph, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: backend
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 20
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on, per-request
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 5
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-05-05

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 13950
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 1504810
- contributors: 629
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 5993
- dependentPackages: 392

### Sources

- urls: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/ (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/ (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- category: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/ (read 2026-10-19)
- language: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- runtime: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/ (read 2026-10-19)
- runtimeMin: https://registry.npmjs.org/@apollo/server/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/getting-started (read 2026-10-19)
- runsAs: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/ (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainer: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/@apollo/server/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/releases (read 2026-10-19)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- contributors: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server (read 2026-10-19)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/@apollo/server (read 2026-10-19)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40apollo%2Fserver (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40apollo%2Fserver (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Apollo Server is a GraphQL server that is added to a new or existing Node.js app. Its docs list Express, Fastify, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Cloudflare among the apps it runs in, so it runs inside a long-running server or is invoked per request, depending on that app.

## Worth knowing

The older npm package named apollo-server holds earlier major versions. That package is deprecated on npm, and the docs list those versions as end-of-life. This record covers the @apollo/server package.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0