Best API Design Products in 2024

A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs.

Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform that enables consistency, reusability, and quality in your API lifecycle, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience.

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The Collaboration Platform for API Development

Open Source

API Manager enables you to manage users, analyze traffic, and secure APIs with policies, wherever your APIs are hosted and whatever technologies they run on.

Swagger is an open source RESTapi Documentation Tool.

Open Source

Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing

Join thousands of developers who use SwaggerHub to build and design great APIs. Signup or login today.

The ignite Platform: a better way to catalog and manage your APIs

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RAML is a solution that manages an API lifecycle from design to sharing.

Open Source

YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language

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(JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format

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API marketplace for finding and connecting to the world's top APIs.

Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds. For front-end developers who need a quick back-end for prototyping and mocking