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19 products matching your filters. Each one described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

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  • Ably logo

    Ably

    Realtime data delivery platform for pub/sub messaging at scale

    Free plan, then $29/mo
    • Web
    • iOS
    • Android
    • +1

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Apidog logo

    Apidog

    All-in-one platform for API design, documentation, testing, and mocking

    Free plan, then $9/mo
    • Web
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Apollo GraphQL logo

    Apollo GraphQL

    GraphQL platform and API orchestration layer for building unified graphs

    Free plan, then $5/mo
    • Web
    • API

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Bruno logo

    Bruno

    Open-source IDE for API exploration with git-friendly collections

    Free plan, then $6/mo
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • GraphQL Apollo logo

    GraphQL Apollo

    Complete platform for building GraphQL APIs

    Free plan, then $5
    • API
    • Web
    • iOS
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Gravitee logo

    Gravitee

    Open source API management platform for event-native APIs

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • Self-hosted

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Hasura logo

    Hasura

    GraphQL engine that instantly creates production-ready GraphQL API from databases

    Free plan, then $5/mo
    • Web

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Hoppscotch logo

    Hoppscotch

    Open-source API development ecosystem with web-based REST client

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • Kong Gateway logo

    Kong Gateway

    Open-source and cloud API gateway for managing microservices traffic

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • Linux
    • API

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Liveblocks logo

    Liveblocks

    Realtime collaboration infrastructure for building multiplayer features

    Free plan, then $30/mo
    • Web
    • API

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • PubNub logo

    PubNub

    Realtime communication platform for chat, IoT, and live data apps

    Free plan, then $98/mo
    • Web
    • iOS
    • Android
    • +1

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Pusher logo

    Pusher

    Realtime messaging API for building live features into apps

    Free plan, then $49/mo
    • Web
    • iOS
    • Android
    • +1

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • RapidAPI logo

    RapidAPI

    API marketplace and management platform for discovering and publishing APIs

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • iOS
    • Android
    • +2

    4 alternatives · 2 limitations documented

  • Sanity logo

    Sanity

    Headless CMS with real-time collaborative editing and structured content APIs

    Free plan, then $15/mo
    • Web

    4 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Stainless logo

    Stainless

    Generates client SDKs, API docs, and MCP servers from an OpenAPI spec

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • API

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Swagger logo

    Swagger

    API design and documentation platform for building, testing, and managing APIs

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • API
    • Windows
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • Swagger/OpenAPI logo

    Swagger/OpenAPI

    API specification and documentation framework using OpenAPI standard

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • API
    • Windows
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Thunder Client logo

    Thunder Client

    Lightweight REST API client built as VSCode extension

    Free plan available
    • Web

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • Tyk logo

    Tyk

    Open-source API gateway and API management platform

    Free plan available
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    • Web

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Head to head

Apis tools, compared

Pairings from this slice of the directory, each one checked by two reviewers who agreed a buyer would weigh the two against each other.

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Where does this data come from?

Pricing, platforms and feature lists are taken from each vendor's own pages. Limitations, answered questions and alternatives are researched separately and carry a source URL on the page that states them. Every product is described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Why are there no star ratings?

Because we did not collect any. Softwr hosts no reviews, and a rating aggregated from somewhere else is not ours to publish as though it were an assessment we made. What is shown instead is what a tool costs, where it runs, and what it is concretely bad at.

How are alternatives chosen?

A researcher proposes them, then two independent reviewers judge one question each: would a buyer evaluating this product seriously consider that one instead. 225 of 1,841 candidates failed and were deleted, including a font inspector matched to a dark mode extension. Only pairings that survived both rounds are published.

Do vendors pay to appear here?

Not to be listed. A vendor can buy a place in the results on the home page, on a category listing or on the catalogue, and where they do the result carries a Sponsored label. Everything not carrying that label is ordered on the same criteria as everything else, and a paid place never changes where an unpaid one lands: the editorial order flows around it. Where a link earns a commission that is disclosed on the page carrying it.

How current is it?

Prices and plan limits move without notice, so treat anything with a number on it as a starting point and check the vendor before you buy. Where a claim could go stale it carries the source it came from, which is the fastest way to tell.