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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    MindCloud

    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.
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    Starting Price: $625/month
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    Qorus Integration Engine

    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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    Linx

    Linx

    Twenty57

    A powerful iPaaS platform for integration and business process automation. Linx is a powerful platform for building custom integrations at scale. The platform provides enterprise-grade capability and unparalleled flexibility to cater to a wide range of integration use cases for today’s growing businesses, including application integration, data synchronization, data migration, automations, and rapid API development and management. Linx is a low-code, desktop-based iPaaS that enables organizations to connect their cloud and on-premise applications, data sources.
    Starting Price: $599 per month
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    DocuSend

    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.
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    Starting Price: $1.23 for 1pg 8.5x11" document
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    Wappler

    Wappler

    Wappler

    Low code visual builder for dynamic, data driven and highly interactive custom web sites, CMS systems and mobile apps. No coding required thanks to its integrated, first class reactive front-end and back-end frameworks, visual two way data bindings and Bootstrap 4 builder - you can focus on productivity and creativity. Wappler allows you to connect to any database or API service. With the Docker integration in Wappler you can not only develop locally, but also deploy to any remote Docker host. Full version control is available, thanks to the Git integration.
    Starting Price: €19 / month
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    EnableX Communications APIs
    EnableX makes integrating real-time communications into applications and workflows a lot easier. Designed and developed for Service Providers, Systems Integrators, and Developers, it provides a robust, scalable and secure communications platform without the complexity of building and maintaining the network infrastructure. By simply leveraging on EnableX comprehensive sets of programmable APIs and SDKs, developers can rapidly customize and embed all or part of the communication functions – voice, video, SMS and chat – right into existing applications, workflows and systems. Together with the Virtual Number services and advanced features such as AI and NLP, businesses can reach customers globally with an outstanding communication experience.
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    Unleash

    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

    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

    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

    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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    Xano

    Xano

    Xano

    Xano provides a fully-managed scaleable infrastructure to power your backend. On top of that security, you can quickly build the business logic that powers your backend without a single line of code or use one of our pre-made templates to launch quickly without sacrificing scale or security. Build custom API endpoints without a single line of code. Accelerate time to market using our out-of-the-box CRUD operations and Marketplace extensions and templates! Your API comes “ready-to-use” so you can immediately connect to any frontend and focus on your business logic. Everything is also automatically documented in Swagger so connecting to a frontend is a breeze. Xano uses PostgreSQL which provides the flexibility of a relational database along with the Big data needs of a NoSQL solution. Add features to your backend in a few clicks or start with ready-made templates and extensions to jumpstart your project.
    Starting Price: $29 per 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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    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ is a low-code platform to build internal tools and custom apps for the web and mobile. Developers and engineering teams use this platform to create admin panels, CRUD apps, GUI for Databases or APIs, forms, dashboards & operational apps. Key features include: - Customizable UI components - Mobile + Web app output - 10x faster app development - Seamless integration to any existing tech stack - Scalable cloud-based architecture - Over 50 Engineering Support Hours (UVP) - Free forever developer plans With 3000+ Apps built and 1 million+ users supported, DronaHQ is a platform trusted by global companies.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Directus

    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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    CData Arc

    CData Arc

    CData Arc International

    CData Arc is a leading B2B application and data connectivity solution for secure managed file transfer (MFT), EDI processing, and back-office integration. It seamlessly connects enterprise applications like CRMs, ERPs, RDBMS, and more to automate complex processes and synchronization across the enterprise, both on-premises and in the cloud. The application supports file transfer through a wide array of B2B messaging protocols including AS2, AS4, OFTP, SFTP, and more. In addition, Arc features interactive EDI mapping and translation with support for all major EDI standards and protocols such as X12 and EDIFACT. A codeless visual interface features a modern drag-and-drop approach to workflow management where users can configure connectors in a workspace to build complex workflows. Drag-and-drop also extends to data transformation allowing users to easily map data between formats like JSON, XML, and CSV. Start a free 30-day trial or get more information on our website
    Starting Price: $0.00
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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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    DreamFactory

    DreamFactory

    DreamFactory Software

    DreamFactory Software is the fastest way to build secure, internal REST APIs. Instantly generate APIs from any database with built-in enterprise security controls that operates on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud. Develop 4x faster, save 70% on new projects, remove project management uncertainty, focus talent on truly critical issues, win more clients, and integrate with newer & legacy technologies instantly as needed. DreamFactory is the easiest and fastest way to automatically generate, publish, manage, and secure REST APIs, convert SOAP to REST, and aggregate disparate data sources through a single API platform. See why companies like Disney, Bosch, Netgear, T-Mobile, Intel, and many more are embracing DreamFactory's innovative platform to get a competitive edge. Start a hosted trial or talk to our engineers to get access to an on-prem environment!
    Starting Price: $1500/month
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    Connectbase

    Connectbase

    Connectbase

    Connectbase's Industry Growth Cloud for connectivity is a system of intelligence around location to enable buyers and sellers to drive growth for connectivity providers. Combining location intelligence, workflow including planning, prospecting, pricing and market participation, along with the award winning ecosystem within The Connected World. Over 600 million locations are being managed to drive growth across 150+ service providers globally.
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    Kong Konnect
    Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform brokers an organization’s information across all services. Built on top of Kong’s battle-tested core, Kong Konnect Enterprise enables customers to simplify management of APIs and microservices across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. With Kong Konnect Enterprise, customers can proactively identify anomalies and threats, automate tasks, and improve visibility across their entire organization. Stop managing your applications and services, and start owning them with the Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform. Kong Konnect Enterprise provides the industry’s lowest latency and highest scalability to ensure your services always perform at their best. Kong Konnect has a lightweight, open source core that allows you to optimize performance across all your services, no matter where they run.
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    Advantage CSP

    Advantage CSP

    Advantage CSP

    Advantage CSP is an enterprise-class content services platform that powers complex websites, mobile apps, and business applications while offering the flexibility to adapt to each organization's unique processes and workflows. From public-facing websites to business applications that drive organizational processes, Advantage CSP unifies an enterprise for efficiency. Centrally manage thousands of sites using just one interface. 30% faster development and deployment time compared to a traditional CMS. Spend less time on coding and more time on scaling your business. The multi-tenant architecture enables multi-site and multi-language deployments from a single dashboard. Effortlessly help your team efficiently create beautiful digital experiences for every user on any device. Achieve true flexibility and power.
    Starting Price: $79 per month
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    One APIMarketplace

    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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    AvAIO

    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

    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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    Gloo Gateway
    Gloo Gateway by Solo.io is a cloud-native API management solution that provides comprehensive management across external, internal, and third-party APIs. Built on the industry-leading Envoy Proxy, Gloo Gateway supports both Layer 4 and Layer 7 protocols, ensuring flexibility and scalability for modern API architectures. It offers advanced features such as multi-cluster support, real-time analytics, and developer portal capabilities. The platform also ensures enhanced security with zero-trust policies, including automatic authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit for all API traffic. Gloo Gateway is designed for organizations looking to streamline API connectivity, optimize performance, and scale efficiently.
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    SSQUARE API Management
    SSQUARE - API Management The comprehensive platform to manage APIs (your valuable assets) and keep your business secure while accessible at all time to encompass digital ecosystem. S-Square API Management allows your organization to: Organize APIs of all stakeholders Register APIs under the official directory to make your services easily accessible Protect APIs from cyberattack Provide exposed APIs the authorization to control access of your critical and sensitive data from digital threats Streamline APIs development life cycle Facilitate APIs subscribers and publishers with hassle-free GUI coupled with traffic management and analytic capabilities to enable development agility and customer experience optimization
    Starting Price: $25000 / yr
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    PrestoAPI

    PrestoAPI

    PrestoAPI

    Eliminate the need for back-end development. Easily connect to your database using the connection string or server address. Customize your API methods by choosing the data to create, read, update, or delete. Presto! Your API is ready for use by your front-end development team. No back-end necessary. PrestoAPI currently supports SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Oracle database systems. Assign roles to users throughout the application or to specific projects. PrestoAPI is secured through Identity Server, OAuth 2.0, and Active Directory.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Hoss

    Hoss

    Hoss Technologies

    Get free visibility into the APIs you consume. Hoss helps teams make better API-driven products. Our simple drop-in solution makes it easy to track and manage third-party APIs. Get visibility into API performance, be alerted of errors before your customers notice, reduce the amount of time spent debugging integrations, and much more. Deep visibility. Successfully managing third-party API integrations requires deep, actionable insights - but developing and maintaining those systems takes time and taxes your engineering resources. Hoss delivers clear analytics on application errors and performance. Better customer experiences. Other tools like APMs and synthetic testing apps can’t increase the reliability of your third-party integrations. With Hoss, you can increase robustness and prevent issues that affect your customers by applying reliability features - from auto-retry to failover - uniformly across all of your integrations. Data privacy controls.
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    Agilysys Stay
    Agilysys Stay: An intuitive, cloud-based property management solution for resorts and hotels. Keep business flowing effortlessly, on any operating system. See Quicker Returns without the Technology Overhead, Engage Seamless Mobility that Improves Productivity, Drive Upsell Revenue with Built-in, Intelligent Logic. Gain Efficiency. Grow Your Business. Agilysys Stay is your one-stop solution to grow occupancy, increase revenue, eliminate costs, engage more guests and enhance satisfaction. A streamlined PMS that conveniently interfaces with web reservations, booking engines, OTAs and more. Plays nicely with on-premise technologies for keys, phone, voicemail, energy management and others. Convert capital expenses to operational costs and get access to the latest updates without the pain of managing upgrades. Get a complete overview.
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