Compare the Top API Testing Tools as of April 2025

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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    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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    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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    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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    Akto

    Akto

    Akto

    Akto is an open source API security in CI/CD platform. Key features of Akto include: 1. API Discovery 2. API Security Testing 3. Sensitive Data Exposure 4. API Security Posture Management 5. Authentication and Authorization 6. API Security in DevSecOps Akto helps developers and security teams secure APIs in their CI/CD by continuously discovering and testing APIs for vulnerabilities. Akto's pricing is transparent on website. Free tier is available. You can deploy both self-hosted and in cloud. It takes only few mins to deploy and see results. Akto can integrate with multiple traffic sources - Burpsuite, AWS, postman, GCP, gateways, etc.
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    Pynt

    Pynt

    Pynt

    Pynt is an innovative API Security Testing platform exposing verified API threats through simulated attacks. We help hundreds of companies such as Telefonica, Sage, Halodoc, and more, to continuously monitor, classify and attack poorly secured APIs, before hackers do. Pynt's leverages an integrated shift-left approach, and unique hack technology using home-grown attack scenarios, to detect real threats, discover APIs, suggest fixes to verified vulnerabilities, thereby eliminating the API attack surface risk. Thousands of companies rely on Pynt to secure the no. 1 attack surface - APIs, as part of their AppSec strategy.
    Starting Price: $1888/month
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    Appvance

    Appvance

    Appvance.ai

    Appvance IQ (AIQ) delivers transformational productivity gains and lower costs in both test creation and execution. For test creation, it offers both AI-driven (fully machine-generated tests) and also 3rd-generation, codeless scripting. It then executes those scripts through data-driven functional, performance, app-pen and API testing — for both web and mobile apps. AIQ’s self-healing technology gives you complete code coverage with just 10% the effort of traditional testing systems. Most importantly, AIQ finds important bugs autonomously, with little effort. No coding, scripting, logs or recording required. AIQ is easy to integrate with your current DevOps tools and processes. Appvance IQ was developed by a pioneering team who envisioned a better way to test. Their innovative vision has been made possible by applying differentiated, patented AI methods to test creation while leveraging today’s high-availability compute resources for massive levels of parallel execution.
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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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