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API Development & Testing
API clients, testing tools, mocking, gateways, and developer API platforms.
Best API Development & Testing tools by public signals
These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.
Use Case Rankings
Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Scalar Scalar is an open-source API platform: 🌐 Modern REST API Client 📖 Beautiful API References ✨ 1st-Class OpenAPI/Swagger Support | 100 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 15.8k | 100 | Active |
| 02 | WunderGraph The open-source solution to building, maintaining, and collaborating on GraphQL Federation at Scale. The alternative to Apollo Studio and GraphOS. | 98 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.2k | 99 | Active |
| 03 | Nango Build product integrations with AI. | 98 | 95 | License unknown | 11.3k | 98 | Active |
| 04 | Kumo A lightweight AWS service emulator written in Go | 96 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.4k | 96 | Active |
| 05 | Unkey The Developer Platform for Modern APIs | 92 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.4k | 96 | Active |
| 06 | Bruno Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia) | 93 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 46k | 95 | Active |
| 07 | Insomnia The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage. | 91 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 39.9k | 95 | Active |
| 08 | Specmatic Open-source API development suite for contract-first testing and specification-driven workflows. | 88 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 393 | 94 | Active |
| 09 | Hasura Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. | 96 | 82 | OSI-approved OSS | 32.1k | 93 | Active |
| 10 | Kuadrant MCP Gateway Envoy-based MCP gateway with auth and policy integration. | 86 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 94 | 92 | Active |
| 11 | Hoppscotch Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia | 92 | 78 | OSI-approved OSS | 79.9k | 90 | Active |
| 12 | Apache APISIX The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway | 89 | 80 | OSI-approved OSS | 16.9k | 89 | Active |
| 13 | AI Gateway Native AI gateway and LLM proxy built in Rust. | 79 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 77 | 89 | Active |
| 14 | Microcks The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project 🚀 | 81 | 69 | OSI-approved OSS | 2k | 82 | Active |
| 15 | testcontainers-go Testcontainers for Go is a Go package that makes it simple to create and clean up container-based dependencies for automated integration/smoke tests. The clean, easy-to-use API enables developers to programmatically defi | 79 | 75 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.9k | 82 | Active |
| 16 | Yasumu API laboratory for designing and testing API workflows. | 68 | 83 | OSI-approved OSS | 45 | 81 | Warning |
| 17 | Gravitee Gravitee.io - OpenSource API Management | 74 | 72 | OSI-approved OSS | 438 | 78 | Warning |
| 18 | mitmproxy An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. | 81 | 54 | OSI-approved OSS | 44.5k | 77 | Warning |
| 19 | Previa AI-first IDE for QA and API testing. | 65 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 3 | 77 | Warning |
| 20 | Requesto Lightweight self-hostable API client with no cloud or telemetry. | 76 | 59 | OSI-approved OSS | 5 | 76 | Active |
| 21 | NyaProxy NyaProxy acts like a smart, central manager for accessing various online services (APIs) – think AI tools (like OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic), image generators, or almost any web service that uses access keys. It helps you use these services more reliably, efficiently, and securely. | 59 | 83 | OSI-approved OSS | 970 | 74 | Warning |
| 22 | KrakenD KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go. | 78 | 46 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.7k | 73 | Warning |
| 23 | Requestly Free and open-source API Client & Interceptor. | 80 | 39 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.7k | 72 | Warning |
| 24 | Data API justoneapi数据接口服务。提供:淘宝、小红书、拼多多、同程旅行、京东外卖、抖音(电商)、美团、抖音(视频)、快手、蒲公英、星图、微信公众号、大众点评、哔哩哔哩、知乎、微博、贝壳、Bigo、Temu、Lazada、Shopee、SHEIN、百度指数、携程、Boss直聘、智联招聘、拉钩、今日头条、Facebook、Youtube、Instgram、Twitter。爬虫、采集、scrapy、接口、API。 | 69 | 63 | License unknown | 551 | 72 | Warning |
| 25 | Kong 🦍 The API and AI Gateway | 74 | 36 | OSI-approved OSS | 43.9k | 69 | Warning |
| 26 | Hurl Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text. | 62 | 49 | OSI-approved OSS | 19.1k | 68 | Warning |
| 27 | Emissary Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on Envoy Proxy. | 68 | 45 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.5k | 67 | Warning |
| 28 | Tailcall High Performance GraphQL Runtime | 61 | 45 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.4k | 66 | Warning |
| 29 | Lura Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation | 67 | 28 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.8k | 60 | Warning |
| 30 | SoapUI Open-source cross-platform functional testing tool for APIs, SOAP services, REST endpoints, and web services. | 56 | 30 | License unknown | 1.7k | 58 | Warning |
| 31 | API Dash API Dash is a beautiful AI-powered open-source cross-platform (Desktop & Mobile) API Client built using Flutter which can help you easily create & customize your HTTP & GraphQL API requests, visually inspect responses and generate API integration code. A lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia. | 58 | 34 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.9k | 57 | Warning |
| 32 | Webhook.site ⚓️ Easily test HTTP webhooks with this handy tool that displays requests instantly. | 62 | 14 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.7k | 54 | Warning |
| 33 | Easegress A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system | 58 | 18 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.9k | 53 | Warning |
| 34 | Restfox Offline-first HTTP and socket API testing client for web and desktop. | 51 | 14 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.7k | 47 | Warning |
| 35 | APIPark Cloud native, ultra-high performance AI&API gateway, LLM API management, distribution system, open platform, supporting all AI APIs.🦄云原生、超高性能 AI&API网关,LLM API 管理、分发系统、开放平台,支持所有AI API,不限于OpenAI、Azure、Anthropic Claude、Google Gemini、DeepSeek、字节豆包、ChatGLM、文心一言、讯飞星火、通义千问、360 智脑、腾讯混元等主流模型,统一 API 请求和返回,API申请与审批,调用统计、负载均衡、多模型灾备。一键部署,开箱即用。 | 49 | 7 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.8k | 46 | Critical |
| 36 | LocalStack 💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline | 44 | 4 | OSI-approved OSS | 65.2k | 43 | Critical |
| 37 | BricksLLM 🔒 Enterprise-grade API gateway that helps you monitor and impose cost or rate limits per API key. Get fine-grained access control and monitoring per user, application, or environment. Supports OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, vLLM, and open-source LLMs. | 39 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.2k | 39 | Critical |
| 38 | Hookflare Open-source webhook gateway for Stripe, GitHub, and Slack. | 31 | 4 | OSI-approved OSS | 0 | 36 | Critical |
| 39 | VoAPI Next-generation AI model API aggregation and distribution system. | 36 | 0 | License unknown | 1.1k | 34 | Critical |
| 40 | One API LLM API 管理 & 分发系统,支持 OpenAI、Azure、Anthropic Claude、Google Gemini、DeepSeek、字节豆包、ChatGLM、文心一言、讯飞星火、通义千问、360 智脑、腾讯混元等主流模型,统一 API 适配,可用于 key 管理与二次分发。单可执行文件,提供 Docker 镜像,一键部署,开箱即用。LLM API management & key redistribution system, unifying multiple providers under a single API. Single binary, Docker-ready, with an English UI. | 33 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 36.1k | 33 | Critical |
| 41 | Llana No-code API wrapper for databases. | 28 | 0 | License unknown | 206 | 33 | Critical |
| 42 | OpenTest Open-source test automation tool for web, mobile, and API testing. | 28 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 502 | 30 | Critical |
| 43 | Gateweaver An open-source, lightweight API Gateway built on Express.js | 8 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 67 | 23 | Critical |
| 44 | Gotcha REST Client Open-source cross-platform API test and design client. | 5 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 205 | 21 | Critical |
Evidence Watch
Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.
AIGC Gateway
Unified OpenAI-compatible AI gateway with workflows and monitoring.
62 confidenceApache JMeter
Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services
90 confidenceAPI 200
API 200 is an open source API gateway to simplify 3rd-party integrations. Import endpoints, set up caching, retries, and mocks. Access all services via one URL. Monitor logs, track errors, and get alerts on API incidents.
71 confidenceApidog
Apidog is a tool tracked for api development & testing signals, maintenance activity, and public release evidence.
44 confidenceAPIMAN
Extensible API management platform.
93 confidenceATAC
A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal
93 confidenceAxonHub
⚡️ Open-source AI Gateway — Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing.
88 confidenceBifrost
Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS.
100 confidenceChoreo Connect
Open-source, cloud-native, developer-centric API gateway.
89 confidenceConvoy
The Cloud Native Webhooks Gateway
100 confidencedigiRunner
API gateway for microservices.
90 confidenceFakeCloud
Open-source AWS emulator with a broad local cloud service surface.
100 confidenceFirecamp
Developer-first OpenSource API DevTool, Postman/Insomnia alternative.
88 confidenceFusio
Self-Hosted API Management for Builders
100 confidenceGhostPour
Open-source LLM API gateway with auth, multi-provider routing, and subscription-based access control.
89 confidenceGrafbase
The Grafbase GraphQL Federation Gateway
100 confidenceHigress
🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway
98 confidenceHooki
Open-source webhook proxy with a visual flow editor.
62 confidenceHttpArena
Open-source HTTP benchmarking platform for testing and proving API performance.
79 confidenceHTTPie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
97 confidenceInference Gateway
Cloud-native gateway unifying multiple LLM providers.
89 confidenceKarate
Test Automation Made Simple
97 confidenceKeploy
Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.
100 confidencekgateway
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
93 confidenceLiteLLM
Python SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging. [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, VLLM, NVIDIA NIM]
100 confidenceLLMGateway
Route, manage, and analyze your LLM requests across multiple providers with a unified API interface.
100 confidenceMCP Assert
Deterministic correctness testing for MCP servers.
98 confidenceMCP Context Forge
AI gateway, registry, and proxy for MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs.
94 confidenceMembrane API Gateway
Open source API gateway with native OpenAPI support.
89 confidenceMinistack
Free, open-source local AWS emulator.
100 confidenceMoesif Developer Portal
Open-source developer portal for API productization and monetization.
91 confidencenew-api
A unified AI model hub for aggregation & distribution. It supports cross-converting various LLMs into OpenAI-compatible, Claude-compatible, or Gemini-compatible formats. A centralized gateway for personal and enterprise model management. 🍥
92 confidenceOpenAPI Generator
OpenAPI code generator for API clients, server stubs, and documentation.
100 confidenceOpenHook
Open-source webhook debugging tool for developers.
71 confidencePingoo
Load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy with service discovery.
69 confidencePomeloHook
Webhook forwarding tunnel with CLI and dashboard.
82 confidencePostgREST
REST API for any Postgres database
92 confidencepREST
PostgreSQL ➕ REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new
87 confidenceprogramming-quotes-api
Programming Quotes API for open source projects.
57 confidenceProxify
Open-source lightweight reverse proxy gateway for AI APIs.
79 confidenceSnag
Open-source webhook inspector with CLI tunnel and request console.
71 confidenceStepCI
Automated API Testing and Quality Assurance
92 confidenceStoa
Open-source MCP gateway for enterprise AI.
100 confidenceTestCheck
TestCheck is a tool tracked for api development & testing signals, maintenance activity, and public release evidence.
30 confidenceTraefik
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
100 confidencetRPC
🧙♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.
100 confidenceTyk
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
100 confidenceWebhookx
Webhook gateway for sending, managing, and routing webhooks.
88 confidence