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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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Blackbird API Development
Ambassador
Accelerate Development of Prod-Ready APIs. AI-Powered Code Gen, Mocking in Minutes, and On-Demand Ephemeral Test Environments. * Design Efficiently: Generate standardized OpenAPI specs with AI assistance, allowing you to begin coding faster. * Mock Effortlessly: Create shareable API mocks without manual coding, enabling rapid validation. * Automate Repetitive Tasks: Utilize AI to automatically generate boilerplate code for both client and server-side APIs. * Test Effectively: Access publicly available URLs for testing in a production-like test environment through Blackbird's ephemeral testing environments. * Debug Seamlessly: Set breakpoints and debug directly from your preferred IDE with Blackbird's integrated debugging tools. * Deploy Smoothly: Utilize a 24/7 hosted environment for progressive and repeated testing without reconfiguration, facilitated by Blackbird's containerized deployment.Starting Price: $69/month -
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People Data Labs
People Data Labs
We build workforce data, so you don't have to. People Data Labs provides comprehensive workforce profiles built with quality, coverage, and depth in mind. We collect, standardize, and refresh data, so you can build innovative products.Starting Price: $0 for 100 API Calls -
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MindCloud
MindCloud
MindCloud is a software company that builds and maintains custom connections between your software and other platforms so you can eliminate manual data entry and start automating and scaling your business. As technology continues to advance, the modern business owner is using more and more online software tools to manage their business. MindCloud creates a seamless flow from one software platform to the next, saving time and money by connecting your software and automating your business process. We have over 50 prebuilt connectors and can add new connectors within 2-3 weeks of starting a project. What makes us different is we provide a full service that doesn't take extra technical resources on your end. We specialize in Salesforce, Hubspot, Monday.com, QuickBooks, Method:CRM, Zapier, Amazon, Ebay, Groupon, Mercado Libre, HSN, Airtable, Google Sheets and many others. Integrate your business. Simplify your life.Starting Price: $625/month -
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Telgorithm
Telgorithm, Inc.
Telgorithm is a next gen A2P text messaging API provider and the only to automate the entire SMS & MMS journey from compliance to deliverability, enabling Software Providers to grow revenue and improve customer experience. Founded by telecom industry experts who saw a massive need to set a new standard in the cloud communication space, Telgorithm’s mission is to offer a more reliable and transparent business text messaging service for your software or application. Telgorithm has built automations for the new required path of managing 10DLC messaging, and guarantees message deliverability with its unique, patent-pending throughput/rate limit management tech. Telgorithm is the future of A2P text messaging for any software or app offering SMS & MMS messaging to their customers today. Product Features: Auto Registration Auto Number Migration Smart Queueing (Automated TCR/Carrier Rate Limit Management) Message Prioritization Time Routing Advanced Reporting Number VerificationStarting Price: $0.00500 / SMS on 10DLC -
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Qorus Integration Engine
Qore Technologies
Qorus Integration Engine® is the only No-Code for Coders solution, enabling software engineers to rapidly create and maintain enterprise apps through a combination of building block construction, configuration, and custom coding in a highly flexible, open-source platform. Qorus includes AI automation, fault tolerant workflows, native Python - Java language integration, and a data provider API that automatically introspects and interfaces with any system independently of the underlying API or integration technology. Qorus is available as a paid enterprise edition, and a FREE, fully functional community edition.Starting Price: $250 per month -
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DocuSend
Mail Technologies Inc
Remotely send your documents directly to the United States Postal Service through our cloud-based mailroom. DocuSend works with any accounting, billing, or CRM software that produces PDF documents containing a valid mailing address. Users can upload directly, or developers can integrate our REST API to offer a "Send Mail" button in their software, either as a reseller or for internal direct connectivity. There are enormous economic advantages for any business or organization that needs to safely print and mail documents on demand. We also offer an automated email service called DocuLink that lets you know which users open the document links sent and makes it easy to follow up with a hard copy if needed. We are sure that one of our features will improve your mailing experience: DocuSend, DocuLink or the Print-To-Mail Rest API will streamline the manual and time-consuming print, mail and email process.Starting Price: $1.23 for 1pg 8.5x11" document -
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Unleash
Bricks Software AS
Unleash is an open-source feature management software, built with large enterprises in mind. It's private, secure, scalable, and ready for the most complex setups out-of-the-box. Move from all-or-nothing releases to safe and frequent deployments Instead of perfecting a merge and fixing bugs when a set of features go live, you can release individual changes to your users, then immediately roll them back if something goes wrong. Scale your software and infrastructure at your own pace Reduce the complexity of feature flag management and tracking through a simple, user-friendly dashboard. Keep your user data to yourself. Full stop. Unleash offers private instances as part of its SaaS package. With assets like its proxy and Edge offerings, SaaS Unleash user data remains entirely with the customer. Significantly cut costs and reduce the drain on resources Reduce a significant amount of administrative costs, technical debt and helps you focus on the feature flags' benefits.Starting Price: $0 -
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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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Zuplo
Zuplo
We’re reinventing API management for everybody, from startups to enterprises. Add authentication, analytics, rate-limiting, and developer documentation to your APIs in minutes. Protect your API by adding rate-limiting with Zuplo in minutes, and add over 50 available plugins like authentication to your API with a single click. Zuplo was built on the edge and deployed to +300 data centers in the world, which makes multi-cloud deployments first-class. With Zuplo you can run different workloads in different clouds while enforcing a unified set of API policies. Zuplo is the only API gateway that runs your OpenAPI spec directly. Leverage the OpenAPI ecosystem to build your API, and then deploy it to Zuplo without additional configuration. Zuplo automatically generates beautiful docs for your API. You can customize the docs with markdown and devs can self-serve API Keys directly from your docs.Starting Price: $0 per month -
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APIWORX
APIWORX
APIWORX, LLC helps eCommerce businesses scale faster automating their back-office systems and processes. Our Integration Platform as a Service (IPAAS) is specifically designed for the unique needs of eCommerce businesses. Our platform automates complex with: 1. eCommerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce and more 2. Marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and more 3. 3PLs like Shipbob, Amazon FBA and other third party logistics providers 4. Business Networks like SPS Commerce, Coupa, Ariba and EDI 5. Point of Sale systems like Square POS, Lightspeed 6. Accounting platforms like Sage Intacct, Brightpearl, XERO, Netsuite and Quickbooks 7. Inventory Management / Order Processing platforms like Brightpearl, SKUVAULT SKUVAULT and Shiphero. Our service is 100% managed and "done for you" with no software to maintain or buy. Operates on all major platforms.Starting Price: $299/month -
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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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IBM API Connect
IBM
IBM API Connect is a scalable API solution that helps organizations implement a robust API strategy by creating, exposing, managing and monetizing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise. API Connect aims to help businesses to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation. -
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Directus
Monospace Inc
Directus is an Open Data Platform for managing the content of any SQL database. It provides a powerful API layer for developers and an intuitive App for non-technical users. Written entirely in JavaScript (primarily Node.js and Vue.js), Directus is completely open-source, modular, and extensible, allowing it to be fully tailored to your exact project needs. With Directus Cloud, we've taken our open-source spirit to the cloud by offering Directus Community Cloud, a completely free tier - without quotas or limitations. It's ideal for hobby projects and demos, and when you're ready for production, Standard Cloud has the power and infrastructure options you need. Our pricing is usage-based, which means you only pay for what you use. Use Directus on your next headless cms, internal tool, or SaaS project, or use our Insights for better data management and analytics. With Directus, you're only limited by your imagination.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Backendless
Backendless
Backendless is a Visual App Development Platform (VADP) that combines API, user, and database management functionality with a user-friendly, web-based interface and UI Builder. Backendless offers the ability to send emails and push notifications and supports real-time chat and geolocation-based functionality. A Backendless application can be customized with manually written code or using our Codeless logic builder. The platform can be hosted on our cloud servers or installed and managed on your own private servers. The Backendless UI Builder allows you to build fully functional web and mobile apps. You can use the UI Builder, or Backendless works seamlessly with virtually any client-side environment, automatically morphing data to the proper format for the frontend operating system. A Backendless database can also be connected to external databases, allowing you to maintain existing data sources while also being able to manage those databases using Backendless' intuitive interface.Starting Price: $15.00/month -
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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
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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Stoplight
Stoplight
Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform. Use Stoplight Platform to enable consistency, reusability, and quality in your API lifecycle, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience. Here's what you can do with Stoplight Platform: - Design APIs with our easy visual designer, Stoplight Studio - Mock API designs automatically with Stoplight Prism mocking - Collaborate on your designs and invite internal and external users to provide feedback - Develop faster and better APIs - Test and enforce against style guides with Stoplight Spectral - Document both internal and external APIs automatically to create a delightful experience Utilize and integrate design-first workflows to quickly scale up standardized, collaborative, and well-governed API programs.Starting Price: Free -
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Choreo
WSO2
Choreo is an internal developer platform designed to accelerate the creation of digital experiences. With Choreo, you can effortlessly build, deploy, monitor, and manage your cloud native applications. Choreo enhances developer productivity and enables innovation. Choreo can be used for: - Cloud native application development - DevOps - API management - IntegrationStarting Price: Free -
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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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KonnectzIT
KonnectzIT
Choose the authorized applications from our integration library. Configure the actions and fields using flow builder to start the sync. Communication will start between the apps and KonnectzIT will take care from here. Is your day got munched by regular daily tasks that are simple but time-consuming? Can’t do other important work because you need to put your time & effort into these simple tasks? Looking for an easy but effective to save your time, money, and effort? Use our drag & drop visual builder and instantly connect the application to sync the data between them. It will save you a lot of hours in a day depending on the automation volume. The larger the connections, the larger the time spent daily. Connect the applications and automated unlimited tasks easily and simply using a visual connect builder. No matter how complex your workflow is, our builder will help you to visualize the automation setup while configuring the tasks.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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One APIMarketplace
DigitalAPICraft
Publish, consume, collaborate, accelerate your API journey, and enhance developer experience with our enterprise-grade, API platform-agnostic One APIMarketplace. Reduces API sprawl and API complexities through the operationalization of APIs, making them discoverable, consumable, easy to access, easy to collaborate, and more. One APIMarketplace brings down the time to market by effectively increasing the API adoption, through ease of access, API usage, and performance insights to boost the API consumption. Empower developers with intuitive documentation, community engagement, resources, SDKs, and sandboxes to accelerate API adoption. One APIMarketplace streamlines the discovery and usage of your APIs, guaranteeing a smooth and hassle-free experience for developers and businesses alike. Access comprehensive documentation and test APIs in a sandbox before integration. Gain insights into API usage, performance, and user behavior with our analytics dashboard.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Testfully
Testfully
From powerful API client features to advanced testing and monitoring, Testfully does it all. Enjoy the flexibility of cloud and offline-only storage, seamless team collaboration, and easy migration, all in one multi-platform tool. Easily transfer your data from Postman or Insomnia directly into Testfully. Flexible and secure, set global, environment, and folder variables scoped to workspace or user. Customize auth, parameters, headers, and body to build any HTTP request easily. Work together effortlessly, add teams, assign roles, and control folder access. Supports major schemes like OAuth2 for secure and streamlined authorization. From basic to complex, Testfully enables quick, effective testing without the need for coding, making advanced API testing accessible and hassle-free. Execute all requests in a folder simultaneously, sequentially, or randomly with just one click. Validate responses and perform contract testing using a declarative format, no coding is needed.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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APIVerve
APIVerve
Our startup revolutionizes API integration by offering a single subscription that provides access to countless APIs. With just one API key, developers can unlock a vast array of APIs without the need for multiple subscriptions or complicated setups. This innovative solution simplifies the development process, accelerates project timelines, and significantly reduces costs.Starting Price: $19.99 -
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Redocly
Redocly
Beautiful API documentation loved by teams and API consumers. At last, API documentation your whole team will be proud of. Publish beautiful API reference docs in seconds and style them in minutes. Tick every developer's favorite box right out of the box, three panels, a try-it console, generated code samples, SEO-friendly, even friendlier search. Nobody likes outdated docs and scope creep. Maintain API documentation with your favorite source control integrated with our cloud app workflows. We support them all, including on-premise and API management providers. Launch a developer portal in minutes reusing your API definitions as assets. Add tutorials, quick-start guides, and developer tooling with incredible customization. Validate, lint, and bundle multi-file API definitions. Write always on-spec OpenAPI documents. Plug in your API reference and customize every nook & cranny to wow your API consumers.Starting Price: $69 per month -
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AvAIO
SysAIO
At SysAIO, we create all-in-one software solutions to simplify complex operations. Our flagship product, AvAIO, is built for aviation—seamlessly managing reservations, operations, and management, all within in a single platform. Gain full oversight of your airline’s operations with advanced management tools covering compliance tracking, aircraft airworthiness, and maintenance scheduling. AvAIO centralizes critical data, automates reporting, and enhances decision-making, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and improved resource allocation. Deliver a seamless booking experience with integrated DCS, automated check-in options, and secure payment processing. AvAIO optimizes inventory management, reduces manual workload, and ensures a smooth reservation process—enhancing both passenger satisfaction and operational efficiency. Gain full oversight of your airline’s operations with advanced management tools. Visit our website for more details.Starting Price: $2000 per month -
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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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Elastic Path
Elastic Path
Elastic Path is the only company powering mission-critical digital commerce for the world's leading brands, such as Tesla, Pella, Deckers Brands, T-Mobile, and over 250 other leading brands. As relentless innovators, Elastic Path pioneered the Headless Commerce space in 2011 and spearheaded Composable Commerce in 2020. Elastic Path provides industry-leading headless commerce solutions for digitally-driven brands to rapidly build, deploy and continuously optimize highly differentiated commerce experiences. Elastic Path is a global company with offices in Boston, Newcastle, Reading, Toronto, and Vancouver. -
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SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows you to seamlessly integrate on-premise and cloud-based applications and processes with tools and prebuilt content managed by SAP. Leverage tools and prebuilt content to address the full range of integration challenges, including integration flows, connections to third-party solutions, and API management. Connect and customize experiences across the enterprise. Accelerate innovation by starting with integration. Empower practitioners beyond central IT. Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) delivers a cloud service for application, data, process, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration scenarios. It is a multitenant platform that supports cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-on-premise, on-premise-to-on-premise, and B2B integration. It supports real-time integration and scales to meet the high-volume demands of mobile and electronic data interchange environments.
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Webiny
Webiny
Open-source framework that helps you to architect, build and deploy solutions on top of serverless infrastructure. A self-hosted serverless CMS that includes a headless GraphQL API, asset management, and a no-code builder for static pages and forms. Scaleable & cost-effective. The built-in prerendering services makes your pages crawlable by search engines. Manage digital assets, resize and deliver images on multiple resolutions. Expand and change any aspect of the system with custom plugins and business logic. Numerous built-in performance optimizations make your sites fast and scalable.