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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    NeoLoad

    NeoLoad

    Tricentis

    Continuous performance testing software to automate API and application load testing. Design code-less performance tests for complex applications. Script performance tests <as:code /> within automated pipelines for API testing. Design, maintain and run performance tests as code and analyze results within continuous integration pipelines using pre-packaged plugins for CI/CD tools and the NeoLoad API. Create test scripts quickly for large, complex applications using a graphical user interface and skip the complexity of hand coding new and updated tests. Define SLAs based on built-in monitoring metrics. Put pressure on the app and compare SLAs to server-level statistics to determine performance. Automate pass/fail triggers based on SLAs. Contributes to root cause analysis. Update test scripts faster with automatic test script updates. Update only the part of the test that’s changed and re-use the rest for easy test maintenance.
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    Blackbird API Development
    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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    Parasoft

    Parasoft

    Parasoft

    Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver high-quality software with its AI-powered software testing platform and automated test solutions. Supporting embedded and enterprise markets, Parasoft’s proven technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to UI and API testing, plus service virtualization and complete code coverage, into the delivery pipeline. A powerful unified C and C++ test automation solution for static analysis, unit testing and structural code coverage, Parasoft C/C++test helps satisfy compliance with industry functional safety and security requirements for embedded software systems.
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    Starting Price: $125/user/mo
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    MuukTest

    MuukTest

    MuukTest

    Are bugs slipping through your QA process and frustrating your customers? Catching issues early shouldn’t mean overwhelming your team with time-consuming tests. With MuukTest’s AI-driven platform, growing engineering teams reach 95% end-to-end test coverage in just 3 months, delivering quality at speed. By leveraging AI, our QA experts rapidly design, manage, and maintain comprehensive E2E tests for web, mobile, and API applications on the MuukTest platform. Within 8 weeks, we deliver full regression coverage, followed by exploratory and negative testing to uncover hidden bugs and expand test scenarios. We also proactively identify and address flaky tests and false results to ensure the reliability of your tests. Testing early and often allows you to detect bugs in the early stages of your development lifecycle, reducing the burden of technical debt down the line.
    Starting Price: $4,300 per month
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    Testsigma

    Testsigma

    Testsigma

    Testsigma is a low-code end-to-end software testing platform that works out of the box. It's built to enable modern Product teams to collaboratively plan, develop, execute, analyze, debug, and report on their automated testing—for websites, native Android and iOS apps, and APIs. Testsigma test scripts are code-agnostic. While the platform itself is built with Java, you can write test scripts in simple English or use the Test Recorder to generate airtight test scripts for websites and native mobile apps. You can also use the test recorder on your own device farm/grid or on Testsigma's built-in device lab on the cloud. The platform has built-in visual testing, parametrized or data-driven testing, 2FA testing, and more advanced features for easy test automation. Our AI automatically fixes unstable elements and test steps, identifies and isolates regression-affected scripts, and provides suggestions to help you find and fix test failures.
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    Testim

    Testim

    Tricentis

    Testim is the fastest path to resilient end-to-end tests—codeless, coded or both. Testim lets you create amazingly stable codeless tests that leverage our AI, but also the flexibility to export tests as code. You can leverage Testim’s modern JavaScript API and your IDE to debug, customize or refactor tests. Store them in your version control system to keep them in sync with branches and run tests on every commit. Run parallel, cross-browser tests on our test cloud or Selenium-compatible grids while integrating with your CI and dev tools to run smoke tests on pull requests, end-to-end tests on release candidates, or full regression suites on a schedule. Customers like Microsoft, Salesforce, NetApp, Wix, and JFrog run millions of tests on Testim each month. Learn more on our website and sign up for your free account!
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    Starting Price: $20,000 a year
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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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    T-Plan Robot
    T-Plan Robot automates scripted user actions for Test Automation or Robotic Process Automation (RPA) on Mac, Windows Linux & Mobile. T-Plan develops and sells two main toolsets. 1) Test Automation and 2) Robotic Process Automation (RPA). T-Plan Robot is a highly flexible, easy to use, image-based black box GUI automation tool that creates robust automated scripts and exercises applications in the same way as would an end-user. T-Plan Robot is platform-independent (Java) and runs on, and automates all major systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix plus mobile platforms. We believe we have a solution for any environment. GUI automation interacts with your business sponsor and development teams throughout the whole project lifecycle. Working intuitively at the screen level business analysts can help testers drive testable paths through the application, whilst at the same time combining with the development team to define repeatable actions to test code in continuous development.
    Starting Price: $400/month/user
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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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    OpenText UFT One
    Accelerate test automation with one intelligent functional testing tool for web, mobile, API and enterprise apps. Intelligent test automation with embedded AI-based capabilities that accelerates testing across desktop, web, mobile, mainframe, composite and packaged enterprise-grade apps. Automate and accelerate the end-to-end testing of 200+ enterprise apps, technologies and environments with a single intelligent testing tool. AI-powered intelligent test automation reduces functional test creation time and maintenance while boosting test coverage and resiliency. Test both the front-end functionality and back-end service parts of an application to increase test coverage across the UI and API. Test more in less time and achieve test execution at full velocity with parallel testing, cross-browser coverage, and cloud-based deployment.
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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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    ACCELQ

    ACCELQ

    ACCELQ

    ACCELQ offers AI-powered No-Code test automation and management built on a cloud-native platform. ACCELQ provides a unified platform for web, mobile, API, database, and packaged apps. Automation-first, codeless capabilities make it easy to use for testing teams without deep programming expertise. ACCELQ allows businesses to achieve 3x productivity and over 70% savings with its industry-first autonomics-based automation platform. ACCELQ was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Automation Testing Platforms, Q4 2022. ACCELQ’s App Universe and predictive scenario designer enable the development of test scenarios based on path analysis and predictive analytics, and unique test data permutations are determined to provide coverage for all possible business process scenarios.
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    Yethi Tenjin
    Take your enterprise software testing to the next level with Tenjin’s superior automated test suite powered by an intuitive and path-breaking algorithm that automatically “learns” the software’s UI and “re-learns” any changes without manual assistance. Adopt Tenjin today to benefit from immense savings in time, money, and resource strength. Tenjin Connect automates testing at the API level, enabling granular and faster test cycles in a multi-system environment; thereby facilitating early test adoption in today’s agile world. Multiple applications interacting via APIs have become the norm in a modern bank. With the adoption of API / Open Banking, the divide between internal and client facing systems is also getting blurry. Testing these platforms requires rapidly switching between API’s and the GUI. Comprehensive regression testing in integrated environments ensures you are able to balance agility with prudence.
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    Katalon Studio
    An all-in-one test automation solution Get started in no time, scale up with no limit, for any team, at any level. Katalon Studio Robust test generation on all platforms Productive IDE to generate automated tests easily for all platforms and OSs, regardless of application complexity. Powerful recording utility for effortlessly storing all UI elements to maximize reusability. Codeless experience for beginners. Infinite testing extension for experts. Set Up Projects Built-in project templates Start immediately with ready-made templates, test case libraries, keywords, and object repositories. All kinds of end-to-end testing in one place Uniquely perform web, mobile, API, and desktop testing – all in a single project.
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    Eggplant

    Eggplant

    Keysight Technologies

    At Eggplant we empower organizations to create amazing digital experiences. We help businesses to test, monitor and analyze their end-to-end customer experience and continuously improve their business outcomes. Companies worldwide use Eggplant to surpass competitors, boost productivity, and delight customers. How? By dramatically enhancing the quality, responsiveness, and performance of their software applications across different interfaces, platforms, browsers, and devices - including mobile, IoT, and desktop — in agile, DevOps, and innovative application and data environments. As software release cycles accelerate, manual testing can't keep up. AI automatically discovers user journeys, hunts for bugs and performs image-based UI tests from the user POV. Build better software with fast, broad, accurate AI-powered testing. To keep up with DevOps, continuous testing is key, streamlining development and automating the testing process.
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    Backengine

    Backengine

    Backengine

    Describe example API requests and responses. Define API endpoint logic in natural language. Test your API endpoints and fine-tune your prompt, response structure, and request structure. Deploy API endpoints with a single click and integrate into your applications. Build and deploy sophisticated application logic without writing any code in less than a minute. No individual LLM accounts required. Just sign up to Backengine and start building. Your endpoints run on our super fast backend architecture, available immediately. All endpoints are secure and protected so only you and your applications can use them. Easily manage your team members so everyone can work on your Backengine endpoints. Augment your Backengine endpoints with persistent data. A complete backend replacement. Use external APIs into your endpoints without doing any integration work yourself.
    Starting Price: $20 per month
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    PFLB

    PFLB

    PFLB

    PFLB is an AI-powered load testing platform where you can simulate massive traffic to your websites, and applications. It’s easy to use and super helpful for teams that want to ensure their product is ready to scale. Features: Realistic testing with scenario-based traffic simulation. Importing your production load profile with Google Analytics integration. Easy scripting with an intuitive no-code editor. Executing advanced JMeter scenarios at scale. Resolving bottlenecks with AI-powered performance insights. Discovering load testing results with Grafana dashboards. Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, gRPC, JDBC, JMS, AMQP, MQTT, Kafka.
    Starting Price: $50/month
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    Leapwork

    Leapwork

    Leapwork

    Leapwork has created the world’s most accessible automation platform. Through a visual, no-code approach, Leapwork makes it easy for business and IT users to automate repetitive processes, so enterprises can adopt and scale automation faster. Leapwork is used by more than 400 global enterprises across all industries, from banks and insurance companies to life science, government and aerospace. Clients include NASA, PayPal, BNP Paribas and Daimler. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has local offices across Europe, US and Asia.
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    SOAtest

    SOAtest

    Parasoft

    Anchored in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), Parasoft SOAtest simplifies the complexity of functional testing across APIs, UIs, databases, and more. Change management systems continuously monitor quality, making the API and web service testing tool a perfect fit for Agile DevOps environments. Parasoft SOAtest delivers fully integrated API and web service testing tools that automate end-to-end functional API testing. Streamline automated testing with advanced functional test-creation capabilities for applications with multiple interfaces (REST & SOAP APIs, microservices, databases, and more). The tools reduce the risk of security breaches and performance outages by transforming functional testing artifacts into security and load equivalents. Such reuse, along with continuous monitoring of API for change, allows faster and more efficient testing.
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    DevKit

    DevKit

    DevKit

    The Essential AI assistant for Developers. DevGPT combines ChatGPT and our 30+ mini-devtools to help you test public APIs, query databases, generate code and interactive art, and a lot more in just seconds to help you save 10s of hours every week! Build features swiftly and test them in isolation and then bring them into your codebase with confidence. Awaken the creative coder in you by experimenting with our code generation and p5.js tools to create cool art and mini games. While we have an amazing free community of 250+ developers on Discord, we have an even more amazing exclusive sub-community for our Pro users. All your favorite tools in one place. No need to manage multiple apps, websites, and CLI tools. Reduce context-switching and boost your productivity.
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    ContextQA

    ContextQA

    ContextQA

    ContextQA is a groundbreaking product that empowers organizations to enhance their automation test coverage, elevate software quality, expedite product delivery, and significantly curtail expenses related to maintaining software quality through the utilization of AI-driven SaaS solutions. AI agents will transform your manual test cases and user stories into automated test cases. ContextQA collects evidence and performs root-cause analysis while reporting a bug. ContextQA identifies critical user paths and pinpoints gaps in the software testing process. Complete end-to-end testing, including contract testing, eliminates the need for separate front-end and back-end testing tools. Test and identify glitches, enhance performance, and guarantee seamless user experiences on a plethora of browsers, mobile devices, and OS. ContextQA simplifies the process of incorporating test cases with minimal effort, enabling rapid expansion of automation coverage for your products and services.
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    Stellar

    Stellar

    Vstellar

    Speed up your testing processes with Stellar’s low-code automation platform. Enhance efficiency, minimize errors, and achieve smarter software testing with effortless solutions for UI, API, mobile, performance, and accessibility testing. Empower your team to test more and stress less with effortless integration and advanced analytics.
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