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Best API Platforms

Adam Crivello
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Researched and written by Adam Crivello

API platforms consist of software tools and integrations that allow development teams to manage the complete API lifecycle. These solutions provide all of the necessary functionality for API Design, as well as the functionality for API management and governance.

API design software allows users to plan, create, and make changes to APIs in a secure development environment. These tools help handle the pre-production management for APIs by enabling developers to ideate, set design guidelines, and ultimately build APIs under one dashboard. API management software allows users to monitor, control, and monetize their APIs in a secure development environment. These tools help administrators monitor connection consistency, traffic, errors, and security for their team’s published APIs. Some API Platforms may also provide API marketplaces where developers can list and monetize their APIs.

An API platform may be sold as a single compound product or a suite of products.

To qualify for the API Platforms category, a platform or product suite must:

Provide native tools to design and develop APIs
Allow parallel development and team-wide visibility throughout the design process
Enable mocking for API prototyping
Provide security, traffic, and functionality monitoring
Equip teams with operations and monetization tools

In some cases, an API platform may contain features of an API marketplace, which include:

An open marketplace that allows consumers and developers to use APIs for any application
Monetization opportunities for developers
Tracking and analytics to measure usage
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The following products include these core categories: API Management, API Development

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Boomi is the intelligent integration and automation company that drives transformation. The Boomi Platform enables businesses to connect applications, people, and data faster to eliminate digital fra

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Let Stoplight be your platform for building high-quality APIs for any scale - with best-in-class editing, documentation, and governance featuring built-in mocking, linting, style guides, component lib

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The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant

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SwaggerHub provides organizations developing APIs, a central collaboration platform to provide a single source of truth to guide API design and documentation, reinforce standardization, and enable bet

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IBM API Connect is a complete, intuitive and scalable API solution that lets organizations implement a robust API strategy by building, exposing, securing, and managing an entire API ecosystem across

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WSO2 API Manager is an open-source solution designed to facilitate the design, development, publishing, and management of APIs and API products throughout their entire lifecycle. This comprehensive pl

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With our middleware Lobster_data, you can communicate with everyone and everything. Using any format. Any channel. Any system. All through one single platform. In the template library, you will find a

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Backendless is a visual app development platform that offers a full range of low-code and no-code tools for app and web developers of all experience levels. Backendless features include a component-ba

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Conektto is the Generative Platform for Enterprise API development at GPTSpeed. Powered by Natural Language Processing of OpenAPI specification, with Conektto generate production ready API code in sev

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Your complete API management service powered by webMethods. webMethods.io API is an API Management-as-a-Service platform that offers you both an Developer Portal for developer collaboration and an AP

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Tyk is the fastest-growing and most exciting API gateway and management platform in the market. On a mission to connect every system in the world, and with open source at its core, Tyk has been servin

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Gravitee is a comprehensive API management platform designed to unify and streamline the management, security, and governance of all your APIs—across any API style, gateway, or event broker. Whether y

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Microsoft Azure API Management - Take any backend and publish an API in minutes! Transform it, protect it, promote it and monitor it in the cloud.

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