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API Management software

9 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.

Showing 19 of 9

  • Appwrite logo

    Appwrite

    API Management

    Open-source Backend as a Service with REST API and SDKs

    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    Free plan, then $15/moResearched
  • Directus logo

    Directus

    API Management

    Open-source data platform providing REST and GraphQL APIs

    • API
    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • GraphQL Playground logo

    GraphQL Playground

    API Management

    GraphQL IDE and documentation tool for building GraphQL APIs

    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • KeystoneJS logo

    KeystoneJS

    API Management

    Powerful Node.js headless CMS framework and API platform

    • API
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • Kong logo

    Kong

    API Management

    Cloud-native API gateway and service connectivity platform

    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • Payload CMS logo

    Payload CMS

    API Management

    Modern TypeScript-first headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs

    • API
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • Strapi logo

    Strapi

    API Management

    Headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs

    • API
    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • Tyk logo

    Tyk

    API Management

    Open-source API gateway and API management platform

    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    • Web
    FreeResearched
  • WSO2 API Manager logo

    WSO2 API Manager

    API Management

    Complete API management platform for designing and managing APIs

    • API
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched

Head to head

API Management 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, and not to rank. Every position and filter result on this page is unpaid. A vendor can buy the sponsored panel above the results, which is labelled as such and sits outside the list rather than at the top of it: remove it and this page shows the same products in the same order. 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.