What are API Testing Tools?

API testing software is used to test and validate the functionality, performance, security, and reliability of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These tools help ensure that APIs perform as expected under various conditions and meet the required business and technical requirements. Features typically include automated testing, request/response validation, load testing, security testing (e.g., for vulnerabilities and authentication), and performance testing. API testing software often supports integration with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to facilitate automated testing as part of the software development lifecycle. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Testing tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    KrakenD

    KrakenD

    KrakenD

    KrakenD is a high-performance API Gateway optimized for resource efficiency, capable of managing 70,000 requests per second on a single instance. The stateless architecture allows for straightforward, linear scalability, eliminating the need for complex coordination or database maintenance. It supports various protocols and API specifications, with features like fine-grained access controls, data transformation, and caching. Unique to KrakenD is its ability to aggregate multiple API responses into one, streamlining client-side operations. Security-wise, KrakenD aligns with OWASP standards and doesn't store data, making compliance simpler. It offers a declarative configuration and integrates with third-party logging and metrics tools. With transparent pricing and an open-source option, KrakenD is a comprehensive API Gateway solution for organizations prioritizing performance and scalability.
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    Postman

    Postman

    Postman

    The collaboration platform for API development. Simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests directly within Postman. Automate manual tests and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline to ensure that any code changes won't break the API in production. Communicate the expected behavior of an API by simulating endpoints and their responses without having to set up a backend server. Generate and publish beautiful, machine-readable documentation to make your API easier to consume. Stay up-to-date on the health of your API by checking performance and response times at scheduled intervals. Provide a shared context for building and consuming APIs, and collaborate in real-time.
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    Starting Price: $12 per user per 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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    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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    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle is a federated API Intelligence platform built for enterprises that need full visibility, control, and security over their APIs. With a single integration, Treblle provides real-time API Discovery, Observability, Analytics, Governance, Runtime Security, and Developer Portals. It supports on-prem and private cloud deployments to meet strict compliance and data privacy requirements. Treblle helps teams shift left by surfacing API issues early in development and ensuring consistency across environments. Its AI-powered Integration Assistant simplifies onboarding and reduces manual effort. Trusted by global enterprises and recognized over 15 times by Gartner, Treblle accelerates innovation while giving you complete control over your API landscape.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    Checkly

    Checkly

    Pink Robots

    Monitor the status and performance of your API endpoints & vital site transactions from a single, simple dashboard. Checkly is an active reliability platform that brings together the best of end-to-end testing and active monitoring to serve modern, cross-functional DevOps teams. With a focus on JavaScript-based Open Source tech stacks, Checkly is easy to get started with and seamlessly integrates into your development workflow. Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. Monitor and validate your crucial site transactions. Take screenshots and get instant insights into what's working and what's not. Coding browser click-flows used to be hard. Not anymore. Use modern open source frameworks like Playwright and Puppeteer to automate your flows. Run your checks in 20 locations worldwide. Make sure your APIs always responds quickly and with the correct payload.
    Starting Price: $0.80 /10k API check runs
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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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    Autostub

    Autostub

    Torry Harris Business Solutions

    AutoStub® is an essential tool to speed up API development. It can significantly reduce your build time by quickly designing, prototyping, documenting and testing APIs. AutoStub® creates a functional mock that allows developers to work with APIs before they are fully implemented. Available as a SaaS offering, for On-Premise deployments and in a hybrid model. Key Features Simulate ReST and SOAP services Input format - Swagger files for ReST, WSDL files for SOAP services Support for GET, POST, PUT, DELETE methods in ReST Create WSDL/Swagger 2.0 based mock services; generate dummy data for API testing Get an endpoint URL that can be used on a third party SOAP client tool Improves quality by facilitating functional testing Can handle multiple test scenarios together
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