Best API Management Software

Compare the Top API Management Software as of April 2025

What is API Management Software?

API management software is designed to help organizations create, manage, secure, and monitor APIs throughout their lifecycle. These tools enable businesses to expose their APIs to developers, control access, enforce security policies, and ensure optimal performance. Key features typically include API gateway functionality, authentication and authorization, traffic monitoring, rate limiting, analytics, and version control. API management software also helps with the documentation, testing, and debugging of APIs, as well as integrating with third-party services. It is commonly used to ensure seamless and secure communication between different systems, services, and applications, particularly in microservices architectures and cloud environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Tyk

    Tyk

    Tyk Technologies

    Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.
    Starting Price: $600/month
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience
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    The OptimalCloud

    The OptimalCloud

    Optimal IdM

    The OptimalCloud platform is a full featured, award winning, SSO Federation & IAM solution that provides a single point of authentication, policy management and auditing for a seamless end user experience. The OptimalCloud is deployed in workforce and consumer scenarios, used by some of the most recognizable companies on the globe, and used in some of the most secure environments in the world. Each feature-rich pricing tier comes with multi-factor authentication (MFA), because proper security shouldn't cost extra. The OptimalCloud is integrated with more than eleven thousand applications, simplifying set up and configuration and also has 24 x 7 x 365 support with a guaranteed uptime of 99.99%.
    Starting Price: $2/user/month
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    SyncTree

    SyncTree

    Ntuple

    SyncTree strives to be a "Super Connecting Platform" that can easily connect any services you want. With SyncTree, which consists of SyncTree STUDIO, a solution for building backend business logic with block coding, and Block Store, a platform for buying and selling pre-made backend function blocks like App Store, you can organically utilize data and connect services to achieve unlimited service expansion. Based on aPaaS, Block Store provides APIs from various services such as ChatGPT, DALLE, YouTube, etc. in the form of 'backend function blocks', which you can subscribe to and then combine as you want quickly in SyncTree STUDIO to build your business logic. SyncTree is for everyone, whether you're an individual or a business, and you can subscribe and use it according to your needs, from the free version to the PRO version.
    Starting Price: Free/1Month/3,000 Call
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Pangea

    Pangea

    Pangea

    Pangea is the first Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS) delivering comprehensive security functionality which app developers can leverage with a simple call to Pangea’s APIs. The platform offers foundational security services such as Authentication, Authorization, Audit Logging, Secrets Management, Entitlement and Licensing. Other security functions include PII Redaction, Embargo, as well as File, IP, URL and Domain intelligence. Just as you would use AWS for compute, Twilio for communications, or Stripe for payments - Pangea provides security functions directly into your apps. Pangea unifies security for developers, delivering a single platform where API-first security services are streamlined and easy for any developer to deliver secure user experiences.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle: A lightweight SDK for accelerated REST-based API development, see metadata for every API request with real-time API traffic monitoring, get powerful analytics and API governance features alongside API automated docs, and automated API security audits for every single request. Simplify workflows, enhance security with support for 18+ languages and frameworks for seamless integration. Empower your teams to build, ship, and maintain APIs faster.
    Starting Price: $99 per month
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    Moesif

    Moesif

    Moesif

    Powerful user behavior API analytics to help you understand customer API usage and create great experiences. Debug issues quickly with high-cardinality API logs. Drill down by API parameters, body fields, customer attributes, and more. Deeply understand who is using your APIs, how they are used, and payloads their sending. Pinpoint where customers drop off in your funnel and see how to optimize your product strategy. Automatically email customers approaching rate limits, using deprecated APIs, and more based on behavior. Understand how developers adopt your APIs. Measure and improve funnel metrics like activation rate and Time to First Hello World (TTFHW). Segment developers by demographic info, marketing attribution SDK used, and more to discover what best improve your north star metrics metrics and focus on the activities that matter.
    Starting Price: $85 per month
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    API Discovery and Lifecycle Manager
    TeejLab is at the forefront of applying data science and machine learning to help organizations with evolving challenges of API economy. The first and only industry solution designed for API governance at enterprises of global scale. What is your security and compliance posture vis a vis mainframe and legacy apps communicating with internal and external information systems via APIs? We built world’s first software composition analysis system for discovering shadow/hidden, private/public APIs via a curated knowledge base. What Google did to websites, TeejLab is doing to Web APIs. Our modular product portfolio is designed to meet varied API Governance needs of enterprises and communities, cost-efficiently while providing flexibility to add additional capabilities as those needs evolve. Whether you are an engineering shop looking to discover and benchmark APIs or a well-established API consumer or producer of APIs ready to expand your product portfolio, we have it covered.
    Starting Price: $179 per month
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    Inigo.io

    Inigo.io

    Inigo.io

    GraphQL is great, and now we’re making it amazing. Inigo is a plug-and-play platform that works with any GraphQL server to boost your API adoption, covering security, compliance, analytics, and continuous delivery so companies scale with confidence. Build-it-yourself GraphQL solutions create unnecessary security and operational challenges. Inigo saves you time by removing those hassles and headaches with simplified tools. Custom builds are time-consuming and expensive. With better tooling around CI/CD integration, developers are free to focus on their core tasks. Scaling GraphQL creates unique operational challenges. Our tools eliminate development and delivery hassles, while a self-serve workflow keeps your projects moving forward. What keeps you up at night, DDoS attacks, data leaks, access control? Now you can check off everything on your GraphQL security to-do list. Defend from GraphQL parser and resolver attacks.
    Starting Price: Free
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    NGINX
    NGINX Open Source: The open source web server that powers more than 400 million websites. NGINX Plus is a software load balancer, web server, and content cache built on top of open source NGINX. Use NGINX Plus instead of your hardware load balancer and get the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure. Save more than 80% compared to hardware ADCs, without sacrificing performance or functionality. Deploy anywhere: public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, virtual machines, and containers. Save time by performing common tasks through the built‑in NGINX Plus API. From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self‑service, API‑driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows to accelerate app deployment – whether your app has a hybrid or microservices architecture – and makes app lifecycle management easier.
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    Utilihive

    Utilihive

    Greenbird Integration Technology

    Utilihive is a cloud-native big data integration platform, purpose-built for the digital data-driven utility, offered as a managed service (SaaS). Utilihive is the leading Enterprise-iPaaS (iPaaS) that is purpose-built for energy and utility usage scenarios. Utilihive provides both the technical infrastructure platform (connectivity, integration, data ingestion, data lake, API management) and pre-configured integration content or accelerators (connectors, data flows, orchestrations, utility data model, energy data services, monitoring and reporting dashboards) to speed up the delivery of innovative data driven services and simplify operations. Utilities play a vital role towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and now have the opportunity to build universal platforms to facilitate the data economy in a new world including renewable energy. Seamless access to data is crucial to accelerate the digital transformation.
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    RestCase

    RestCase

    RestCase

    API Design and Development. Start developing your APIs with Design-first and Security-first approach using RestCase. Design-first approach takes place before or in the early stage of the API development, and the initial output of this approach is a human and a machine-readable definition of the API. Since it is critical to focus on API security from the start, RestCase analyzes the API definions for security issues and other vulnerabilities. Design-first Development Design APIs in a powerful and intuitive visual designer that is built for speed and efficiency, without any loss in design consistency. Use the collaboration capabilities to reduce friction in transitioning to design-first / spec-first development practices, to increase the API adoption internally, and to get ideas and issues while designing. Discover the benefits of the design-first approach like fast feedback loops, effective feedback, and minimal wasted effort. Security-first Development. Building your API
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    Imvision

    Imvision

    Imvision

    How enterprises secure their APIs. Protect your APIs wherever they are, throughout their lifecycle. Gain visibility across the board and deeply understand the business logic behind your APIs. Uncover endpoints, usage patterns, expected flows, and sensitive data exposure through full API payload data analysis. By analyzing the full API data, Imvision allows you to go beyond predefined rules in order to discover unknown vulnerabilities, prevent functional attacks, and automatically shift-left to outsmart attackers. Natural Language Processing (NLP) allows us to achieve high detection accuracy at scale while providing detailed explainability. It can effectively detect ‘Meaningful Anomalies’ when analyzing API data as language. Uncover the API functionality using NLP-based AI to model the complex data relations. Detect behavior sequences attempting to manipulate the logic, at any scale. Understand anomalies faster and in the context of the business logic.
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    Salt

    Salt

    Salt Security

    The Salt Security API Security Platform protects APIs across their full lifecycle – build, deploy and runtime phases. Only Salt can capture and baseline all API traffic -- all calls and responses -- over days, weeks, even months. Salt uses this rich context to detect the reconnaissance activity of bad actors and block them before they can reach their objective. The Salt API Context Engine (ACE) architecture discovers all APIs, pinpoints and stops API attackers, and provides remediation insights learned during runtime to harden APIs. Only Salt applies cloud-scale big data to address API security challenges. Salt applies its AI and ML algorithms, which have been in the market for more than four years, to provide real-time analysis and correlation across billions of API calls. That level of context is essential for rich discovery, accurate data classification, and the ability to identify and stop “low and slow” API attacks, which occur over time. On prem solutions simply lack the data.
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    42Crunch

    42Crunch

    42Crunch

    Your most valuable intelligence isn’t AI, it’s your developers. Empower them with tools to be the driving force behind API security – ensuring continuous, unparalleled protection across the entire API lifecycle. Push your OpenAPI definition to your CI/CD pipeline and automatically audit, scan and protect your API. Audit your OpenAPI / Swagger file against 300+ security vulnerabilities, we’ll rank them by severity level and tell you exactly how to fix them – making security a seamless part of your development lifecycle Enforce a zero-trust architecture by ensuring all your APIs meet a set security standard before production, scan the live API endpoints for potential vulnerabilities, and automate redeployment. Ensure security of all your APIs from design to deployment, get detailed insight about attacks on APIs in production – and protect against threats – without impacting performance.
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    Corsha

    Corsha

    Corsha

    APIs power all of your applications and services. Secrets are shared. They are rarely rotated, sometimes never at all. API keys and tokens, even PKI, are getting leaked at an alarming rate. You need clear visibility into and simple control over the machines that are accessing your APIs. Organizations lack visibility into the machines that are leveraging API secrets, and as automation shifts risk from human to machine, the identities of these machines and the secrets they use is more important than ever. Corsha stops API attacks that use stolen or compromised API credentials and helps enterprises protect data and applications that leverage machine to machine (or service to service) API communication.
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    Levo.ai

    Levo.ai

    Levo.ai

    Levo.ai gives enterprises unparalleled visibility into their APIs while continuously discovering and documenting internal, external and partner/third-party APIs. Enterprises can then see the risk from their apps and prioritize it based on the sensitive data flows, AuthN/AuthZ usage and several other criteria. Levo.ai then continuously security tests all apps and APIs to find vulnerabilities in the SDLC as early as possible.
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