Developer
$0/mo
- ✓ 10,000 API calls/month
- ✓ OpenAPI documentation
- ✓ Basic authentication
- ✓ Community support
- ✓ 1 API project
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Production-Ready REST API in Minutes
Ship faster with built-in authentication, intelligent rate limiting, and beautiful OpenAPI documentation. Everything you need to launch your API today.
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Powerful Features for Modern API Development
Real-Time Request Logging
Track every API call with detailed logs that capture request headers, payloads, response times, and error traces. Filter by endpoint, user, status code, or time range. Export logs for compliance or debugging. Retain history for as long as you need.
Automatic Schema Validation
Validate incoming requests against your OpenAPI schema automatically. Catch malformed data before it reaches your business logic. Clear error messages help API consumers fix issues fast. Keep your data clean and your code simple.
Versioning & Deprecation
Manage multiple API versions simultaneously with built-in routing and namespace support. Gracefully deprecate old endpoints with configurable sunset dates and automatic client notifications. Migrate users smoothly without breaking changes.
Custom Middleware Pipeline
Extend functionality with custom middleware for logging, transformation, caching, or business logic. Plug in your own code at any point in the request lifecycle. Use our SDK or write standard HTTP middleware in your language of choice.
Webhook Management
Send real-time events to your users with reliable webhook delivery. Automatic retries with exponential backoff ensure messages get through. Built-in signature verification keeps webhooks secure. Monitor delivery status and debug failures easily.
Performance Analytics
Understand how your API performs with detailed metrics on response times, throughput, error rates, and resource usage. Identify slow endpoints and optimize bottlenecks. Set up alerts for anomalies and track improvements over time.
Everything You Need to Build Great APIs
Secure your API endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT tokens, and API keys out of the box. Fine-grained permission controls let you define exactly who can access what, with role-based access control and custom scopes. No need to build auth from scratch—just configure and deploy.
Protect your infrastructure with intelligent rate limiting that adapts to usage patterns. Set limits per user, per endpoint, or globally. Configure sliding windows, token buckets, or custom algorithms. Real-time monitoring shows you exactly how your limits are performing.
Auto-generated, always up-to-date API documentation that developers actually want to use. Test endpoints directly in the browser, explore request and response schemas, and see live examples. Your API spec becomes living documentation that stays in sync with your code.
curl -X POST https://api.example.com/v1/users \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "name": "Jane Developer", "email": "jane@example.com" }' # Response { "id": "usr_1a2b3c4d", "name": "Jane Developer", "email": "jane@example.com", "created_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z" }Pricing
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Start free and scale as you grow. All plans include core API features.
Save 20% with annual billing
Professional
$49/mo
- ✓ 500,000 API calls/month
- ✓ Advanced rate limiting
- ✓ OAuth 2.0 & API keys
- ✓ Email support
- ✓ Unlimited projects
- ✓ Custom domains
- ✓ 99.9% SLA
Team
$149/mo
- ✓ 2M API calls/month
- ✓ Everything in Professional
- ✓ Team collaboration
- ✓ Priority support
- ✓ Advanced analytics
- ✓ Audit logs
- ✓ SSO integration
Enterprise
Custom/mo
- ✓ Unlimited API calls
- ✓ Everything in Team
- ✓ Dedicated support
- ✓ Custom SLA
- ✓ On-premise deployment
- ✓ Advanced security
- ✓ Custom contracts
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See How Teams Build with API Platform
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E-commerce
Scaling to 10M API Calls per Day
Challenge
A fast-growing online marketplace needed to handle explosive traffic growth during flash sales while maintaining sub-100ms response times. Their legacy API infrastructure couldn't scale without significant downtime and manual intervention.
Solution
By migrating to API Platform, they leveraged built-in rate limiting and auto-scaling capabilities. The OpenAPI documentation made it easy for their team to onboard new developers and maintain consistency across 50+ endpoints.
Results
Achieved 99.99% uptime during peak sales events, reduced API response times by 60%, and cut infrastructure costs by 40%. Developer onboarding time dropped from 2 weeks to 3 days thanks to interactive documentation.
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Healthcare
Securing Healthcare Data with Confidence
Challenge
A telehealth startup required HIPAA-compliant API authentication and granular access controls for patient data. Building a secure authentication system from scratch would have delayed their product launch by months.
Solution
API Platform's built-in authentication and role-based access control provided enterprise-grade security out of the box. They implemented OAuth 2.0 flows and API key rotation policies in days instead of months.
Results
Passed HIPAA compliance audit on first attempt, launched 6 weeks ahead of schedule, and now securely processes over 500,000 patient records monthly. Zero security incidents since launch.
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SaaS
Empowering Third-Party Developers
Challenge
A project management platform wanted to build a developer ecosystem but lacked the resources to create comprehensive API documentation and a developer portal. Poor documentation was their biggest barrier to adoption.
Solution
They deployed API Platform's interactive OpenAPI documentation and sandbox environment, allowing external developers to test API calls in real-time. The automatic documentation generation kept their docs always up-to-date.
Results
Grew from 0 to 200+ third-party integrations in 8 months. Developer satisfaction scores increased to 4.8/5. API adoption became their fastest-growing revenue stream, accounting for 25% of new business.
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Financial Services
Modernizing Legacy Banking Systems
Challenge
A regional bank needed to expose legacy mainframe data through modern REST APIs for their mobile app initiative. Their existing systems had no API layer and required complex custom integration work.
Solution
Using API Platform as a gateway layer, they created a clean REST interface over their legacy systems. Built-in rate limiting protected backend systems from overload, while comprehensive logging aided compliance reporting.
Results
Launched mobile banking app 4 months ahead of competitors, serving 100,000+ customers. Reduced integration costs by 70% and improved system reliability. Now processing 2M+ API transactions daily with full audit trails.
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