How to expose some API methods without subscription while keeping subscription for others?

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I am using Azure API Management to proxy requests from Internet to our backend systems. I have a Product entry on Azure Portal and an API entry associated with the product. Generally access to the API must be by subscription, but I would like the method returning OpenAPI specification (as well as probably few other methods) to be accessible without subscription (freely).

I see "Requires subscription" checkbox on the Product level as well as on API level, but not on a method's level. So I need either:

  • bypass subscription check for certain methods while keeping access by subscription for others, or:
  • same but vice versa: keep the access free for API, but enforce subscription check for certain methods (not preferable, as this fraction is greater).

I checked the list of policies and did not find anything applicable for my case. Moreover this link states:

Subscriptions can be associated with various scopes: product, all APIs, or an individual API.

Is there a way I can workaround this limitation?

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Your request is similar to this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/62900564/…. See my answer in it. – Chun Liu

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I mean that, maybe you wanna some of the methods(less amount) in an Api can be called without a subscription while the left need. And I searched the ms document but failed to find such policy.

The link you provided also intended that. From my point of view,

how about trying to add a separated Api containing those methods that don't need subscription?