# RapidAPI Reviews **Vendor:** RapidAPI **Category:** [API Marketplaces](https://www.g2.com/categories/api-marketplace) **Average Rating:** 3.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About RapidAPI We make it easier to find, connect to, and manage APIs across multiple cloud environments - from the world’s largest API Marketplace. ## RapidAPI Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **huge collection of public APIs** on RapidAPI, enhancing integration and security for applications. (2 reviews) - Users value the **easy API integration** with multiple SDKs, streamlining the development process across various programming languages. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integration** options across multiple languages for a versatile and efficient development experience. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integration capabilities** of RapidAPI, enabling versatile usage across multiple programming languages. (1 reviews) - Users value the **enhanced security** provided by RapidAPI's authentication, reducing application risk significantly. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express concerns over the **limited functionality** due to strict free-tier limits and unreliable third-party APIs. (2 reviews) - Users often face **API reliability issues** , with unexpected downtimes and pricing changes impacting their experience significantly. (1 reviews) ## RapidAPI Reviews ### 1. RapidApi :A all in one API public martketplace **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam G. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2025 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Huge API Selection:It has largest API marketplace with APIs from different providers. Easy Integration:I have used it mostly in Java but it provides SDKs in Python, Node.js, Java, and more for quick integration.So very versatile also. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Limited Free Usage:Most APIs have strict free-tier limits, pushing users to paid plans. API Reliability Issues :Some third-party APIs may go down unexpectedly or change pricing without notice. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding and Integrating APIs is Time:Consuming so RapidApi is very helpful here , I can easyily find from so many Apis from its marketplace . Managing Multiple API Keys & Accounts:RapidAPI provides a unified API key so it is very easy to manage multiple apis without using new key for every api. ### 2. Rapid API the superhero of API marketplace. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankita G. | Senior Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2025 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** RapidAPI has a very huge collection of public API's so I can use it easily. Since RapidAPI authentication, it lowers the security risk of the application. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** The free version has limited number of requests. Since most of the API's are public API, there will be no longer support in future for them. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a single marketplace for lot of API's to choose from. Easy integration on my software. ### 3. $5000 in overage charges, cant investigate, cant limit risk **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan H. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2024 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Quick and simple to get going. Easy to use, reasonable documentation. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** I subscribe to a $35 service. Logged in to find $5000+ spend in overage charges, I asked for IP addresses querying and limits, their reply (should have been internal): We do not disclose the IP address of the request as it's not part of the information we typically share with consumers. Additionally, we do not provide more detailed logs beyond the last 200 on the Public Hub. Regarding protection, it's the responsibility of the consumer to implement mechanisms to block a certain number of calls on their server side; it is not our responsibility. --- This company does NOT understand security and it will put you at risk. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing API access to perform database lookups ### 4. Their UX is horrible, site is barely usable **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keith F. | Lead Software Engineer, Insurance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2024 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Cost for API's are fairly good and the response is not bad. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Terrible Support, UX is horrible, No way to limit spend, reporting is minimal at best. Security is lacking on Api usage. Would like to be able to lock down domain or ip usages on keys. Lot's of room for improvement here. I was thinking of publishing an API but their cost to do so looked way overpriced. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real Estate data ### 5. Disappointing Support Experience with RapidAPI **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Our experience with RapidAPI has been generally positive except for our last experience with their support, and there are several aspects of the platform that we appreciate, one of them is the extensive API marketplace **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** We tried multiple channels to contact RapidAPI's support, including emails and online forms, but we didn't receive any updates for two weeks. They keep repeating that their engineering team will review our case and nothing happens after that. Very bad experience with RapidAPI. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** RapidAPI is addressing several key challenges that were beneficial for us but anymore after seeing their very bad support. ### 6. Adaptable API Marketplace **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chiru Kumar R. | Decisions Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Rapid API is a marketplace where users can connect to thousands of APIs. The best part I like is that every API user can see performance matrices like average latency, uptime and popularity. Team members can share internal APIs and microservices with the public APIs in Rapid APIs for teams. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** While testing endpoints for a few APIs, they don't work properly. I feel they were overrated using them because of a few minor issues during testing. Other than these, Rapid API is excellent. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapid API helps me fetch data through Pre-built APIs that I use daily, like maps, and for integrating with servers to store and get information in cloud services, etc. I also use it for building my APIs for work purposes. ### 7. Terrible Experience **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Ease of use. The endpoints are easy to use. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Data sets on this API are incorrect and incomplete. Customer service is also terrible, do not pay for this. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building predictive sports models, but it is not helping as the datasets are incomplete ### 8. Simplified API Integration and Unlimited API content from different developers around the globe **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshaj M. | Firmware Trainee, Logistics and Supply Chain, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Hundred of different categories of API, One can use in their daily life, Predefined API for demo and for understanding the process of integrating API. Best UI/UX, content than other competitors **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Rapid API is not able to spread actively among the different places of the world, Need a good marketing strategy to spread the business. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** If someone wants to share their API in a nonwork space, they can use Rapid API and I became more productive in this domain . Got to know a lot about different APIs and how to transfer in a free source. ### 9. Good API Marketplace **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaditya A. | Assistant System Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** This website has helped me discover many quality APIs. It has a good collection of APIs. We can easily find APIs for our project and embed the API into our app. We can track all our APIs through a single dashboard. RapidAPI has thousands of free APIs with code snippets and implementation in various languages. I would say that this is one among the best API marketplaces. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** I am not a fan of the interface. Sometimes the connection gets slowed down. New users might find it challenging to design APIs. Also, I am a little skeptical about the security. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Rapid API extensively for the design and testing of our APIs. Since testing APIs is accessible and integrations are quick, it has reduced the development cost. We have also discovered and utilized some excellent APIs for our projects. I would highly recommend RapidAPI to developers. We can check the documentation of thousands of APIs in a single place without having to visit many websites. ### 10. RapidAPI Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rama Kumar B. | Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** 1. RapidAPI is the most popular site which provides a wide range of APIs. 2. I like RapidAPI because it has every type of API which can be tested and integrated with any platform. 3. RapidAPI is simple and very easy to use. 4. We can categorize public and private APIs to have specific users for some APIs using the private option. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** 1. I found out that some APIs that are published in the platform was not working well and reportedly not giving the expected results. 2. The above-mentioned problem should be noticed and moderated by RapidAPI to filter down the Public APIs **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** RapidAPI is acting as a superior provider of multiple API platforms which are offering only certain types of services and also including them in their website to use further and also test them. Earlier, to test some API, I used to go to reqbin site to check the output of the API, but now RapidAPI is providing that dashboard or playground to check the results of the API as well by taking the inputs. ### 11. All kinds of API's at one place **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranav K. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** It has a huge collection of API's of different categories such as pincodes, weather, news so you can just take them and use it in your application as per need. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** I'm just worried about security aspect of using the Rapid API apart form this some of the API's are too costly and on top of that it charges use as per number of request I would prefer a monthly subscription type of billing. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We just buy their API's and use them in our web application it is simple and fast so that our developers can focus on other important aspects of the code. Majority of the task's for which we don't want to utilise our database we just outsource it to the API services like resrAPI ### 12. Effortless API Connections with It **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman B. | Software Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** It helps me to Hit API fast, It is very easy to use. The best feature is that it offers a wide range of APIs in categories such as weather, translation, news, and more. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** No dislike it as it helps me to Hit Api of the third party very fast and helps me in testing of APIs **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to Hit Apis very fast , and in testing of APis. ### 13. Rapid the name suggests **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruvil A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2023 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** The best thing i like is easy integration with great support and documentation, and provide large range of api to test and integrate. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Pricing is the point that i dislike as it is hard to estimate and aprt from this risk to take reliable with the 3rd party platform **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instaed to make functionality from the strach, developer like me can leverage the api provided by them to quickly use. ### 14. Best in the Business **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sasank G. | Mendix Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** I found that there are so many Free APIs which are available in RapidAPI which were having a tag for differentiation FREEMIUM. I used many Free APIs from RapidAPI such as Language detection, Optical character recognition, Reverse geo-coding etc., **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** It provides proper documentation for some APIs to use but for some APIs, even for testing the endpoint, it will not work well also based on rating, we can't trust the rating as even highly rated API fails sometimes. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a platform that will have so many third-party APIs, and their free and premium version can be identified and we can try free versions with a limit for sending requests per minute like that which is really cool for some POC works. ### 15. Superior Platform for APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudheer N. | Assistant systems engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** It is one stop to search and get info about many APIs that are available over the internet and also it offers a pretty nice dashboard of every single API with proper documentation. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Nothing is there to dislike. We can easily sign up and use many free APIs and also request an organization account in RapidAPI. I would like to see improvements in providing every public API available in Github. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is simply providing everything in one place so that we don't need to go to different sites and platforms when we are finding everything in one place. Using this RapidAPI i have used so many Free APIs. ### 16. API Rapid **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kowshick P. | Zonal Manager- Business operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Rapid API is one of the world's largest market place where large number of API's are available. Developers can easily find connect and utilize the API's in a very easy way. It is instantly exposing to the One million users. Support every type of API'S such as SOAP, REST etc. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Little issue with the budding users while designing the new API through the user interface of API. and not sure about the security of the API is not possible for production mode. **Recommendations to others considering RapidAPI:** If you are looking for a tool which helps by very easy workflow, which support all types of API and it should be get trusted in any views, then you can try Rapid API **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapid API is the best way to find and design API is in vereasy way. In case of using Rapid API for often we can also get a suscription for nominal charges and for front rnd develop;ers not needed to to learn backend if you are using rapid api ### 17. Best testing platform. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tarun G. | Engineer 1, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** The community is great and best place for tasting. Best platform also supports REST and SOAP. Its a fully- features API developer tools that accelerates API delivery. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Its great platform but i dont like the interface. **Recommendations to others considering RapidAPI:** Yes **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Share my work with other, testing, debugging and collaboration. I also enlarge my knowledge span and also simply my workflow. ### 18. Great Connector with thousand's to API **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish Kumar . | A, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** These are easy to use and free for users. New learners will get benefitted from this at it's best. I recommend it to new developers who are new to Android or IOS developers **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** Sometimes it get slow down and connection to the API's of other service providers get hampered and we can't check the logs for that **Recommendations to others considering RapidAPI:** For new learners, it is the best toll to get their hand dirty with multiple options to explore. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Slowness sometme hampers the workflow of the data between the API's ### 19. Best Marketplace for API **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankan M. | Lead Software Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2019 **What do you like best about RapidAPI?** Best Collections of Free and Paid API's with code snippets supporting multiple languages. **What do you dislike about RapidAPI?** The code snippets with respect to C# language is under fix and would be good if it's released soon. **Recommendations to others considering RapidAPI:** This is far most the best API marketplace where tons of them free and code snippets are available. I would highly recommend people to use this and share their feedback as well. **What problems is RapidAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems solved are - Quick integrations with Third Party Apps for data pulling and pushing. Benefits - Due to the availability of endpoints, code snippets - it saves time for the developer to build an instant integration very smoothly and easily without going deep into each and every individual site documentation. ## RapidAPI Discussions - [What is RapidAPI used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-rapidapi-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View RapidAPI pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/rapidapi/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-26+18%3A38%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=43d33792-bb4d-48b2-9cd1-b19a9e6dac0c&secure%5Btoken%5D=f730501d50bb5ef7be47ced36a17bb1cee133f4f9fbf1890e9532ab3517e1022&format=llm_user) ## RapidAPI Features **Customization** - SEO - API Contracts - Change Management **Organization** - Respository - Third-Party Integration - Access Management ## Top RapidAPI Alternatives - [Zapier](https://www.g2.com/products/zapier/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,033 reviews) - [MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (625 reviews) - [Integrately](https://www.g2.com/products/integrately/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (680 reviews)