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11 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • curl logo

    curl

    Command-line tool for transferring data using URLs with wide protocol support

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +2

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • HTTPie logo

    HTTPie

    Command-line HTTP client with intuitive interface and syntax

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Janus Gateway logo

    Janus Gateway

    WebRTC gateway and media server for real-time communication

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • Kong logo

    Kong

    Cloud-native API gateway and service connectivity platform

    Free
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted

    4 alternatives · 4 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

  • PocketBase logo

    PocketBase

    Open-source backend with REST API, real-time subscriptions and Admin UI

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • REST Client VSCode logo

    REST Client VSCode

    VSCode extension for making HTTP requests and testing REST APIs

    Free
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    3 alternatives · 6 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

  • WSO2 API Manager logo

    WSO2 API Manager

    Complete API management platform for designing and managing APIs

    Free
    • API
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted

    4 alternatives · 4 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.

How this works

What you are looking at

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.