Open-source Backend as a Service with REST API and SDKs
Overview
What RapidAPI does
RapidAPI is the world's largest API marketplace and management platform that allows developers to discover, test, and integrate thousands of APIs. It also provides tools for API providers to publish and monetize their APIs.
What people use it for
- API Development
- API Gateway
- API Testing
- API Documentation
- Microservices
Related searches
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about RapidAPI.
- RapidAPI Enterprise Hub minimum seat requirement is 5 seats per the embedded pricing page configuration (SEATS_MINIMUM: 5).
- RapidAPI places a $0.50 USD temporary credit card authorization hold when subscribing, refunded only if no overage charges occur within 7 days.
Pricing
What RapidAPI costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Access to APIs
- Basic management
- Testing tools
Pro
$50 /mo
- Advanced features
- Analytics
- Dedicated support
Enterprise
On request
- Custom solutions
- SLA
- Custom integration
Capabilities
Features
API Marketplace
API Marketplace capability
API Management
API Management capability
Testing Tools
Testing Tools capability
Multiple third-party APIs
Integration with Multiple third-party APIs
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST APIs
Integration with REST APIs
Web support
Available on Web
Mobile support
Available on Mobile
Desktop support
Available on Desktop
Behind it
Who makes RapidAPI
- Company
- RapidAPI
- Based in
- San Francisco, California, USA
Keep looking
Where to go from RapidAPI
- RapidAPI alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- RapidAPI pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- All API Management softwareThe full category
- Best API Management softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Other API Management software
GraphQL engine that instantly creates production-ready GraphQL API from databases
Open-source backend with REST API, real-time subscriptions and Admin UI
Headless CMS with real-time collaborative editing and structured content APIs
API management platform for designing, securing, and scaling APIs
Open-source IDE for API exploration with git-friendly collections
Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for RapidAPI, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.
More on RapidAPI
RapidAPI alternatives
What people switch to, and what they give up
RapidAPI pricing
Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
Compare RapidAPI
Put it head to head with anything we hold
RapidAPI badge
Its rating, and an embed for your own site







