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, then health, shipping, confidence, GitHub stars, and name.

#ToolHealthShippingOpennessStarsScoreStatus
01LiteLLM
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]
9999OSI-approved OSS62.3k99Active
02Bifrost
Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS.
9898OSI-approved OSS9.2k98Active
03Ministack
Free, open-source local AWS emulator.
9897OSI-approved OSS5k97Active
04Scalar
Scalar is an open-source API platform:                                       🌐 Modern REST API Client                                        📖 Beautiful API References                                        ✨ 1st-Class OpenAPI/Swagger Support
9797OSI-approved OSS16.3k97Active
05Unkey
The Developer Platform for Modern APIs
9797OSI-approved OSS5.5k97Active
06new-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. 🍥
9796OSI-approved OSS51.1k97Active
07WunderGraph
The open-source solution to building, maintaining, and collaborating on GraphQL Federation at Scale. The alternative to Apollo Studio and GraphOS.
9796OSI-approved OSS1.3k96Active
08Traefik
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
9795OSI-approved OSS65.4k96Active
09kgateway
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
9695OSI-approved OSS5.7k96Active
10FakeCloud
Open-source AWS emulator with a broad local cloud service surface.
9596OSI-approved OSS77596Active
11Insomnia
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
9695OSI-approved OSS40.1k95Active
12Bruno
Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)
9694OSI-approved OSS47.9k95Active
13AxonHub
⚡️ Open-source AI Gateway — Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing.
9694OSI-approved OSS5.4k95Active
14MCP Context Forge
AI gateway, registry, and proxy for MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs.
9694OSI-approved OSS4.7k95Active
15Specmatic
Open-source API development suite for contract-first testing and specification-driven workflows.
9694OSI-approved OSS40095Active
16Inference Gateway
Cloud-native gateway unifying multiple LLM providers.
9595OSI-approved OSS21795Active
17Keploy
Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.
9496OSI-approved OSS18.9k95Active
18OpenAPI Generator
OpenAPI code generator for API clients, server stubs, and documentation.
9693OSI-approved OSS26.8k94Active
19Higress
🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway
9593OSI-approved OSS9.7k94Active
20Kuadrant MCP Gateway
Envoy-based MCP gateway with auth and policy integration.
9593OSI-approved OSS10894Active
21Kumo
A lightweight AWS service emulator written in Go
9494OSI-approved OSS1.5k94Active
22Membrane API Gateway
Open source API gateway with native OpenAPI support.
9494OSI-approved OSS65694Active
23PostgREST
REST API for any Postgres database
9493OSI-approved OSS27.7k94Active
24Karate
Test Automation Made Simple
9493OSI-approved OSS9k93Active
25Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
9492OSI-approved OSS32.1k93Active
26Microcks
The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project 🚀
9491OSI-approved OSS2.1k92Active
27Apache APISIX
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
9490OSI-approved OSS17.3k92Active
28testcontainers-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
9490OSI-approved OSS5k92Active
29tRPC
🧙‍♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.
9388OSI-approved OSS40.7k91Active
30Tyk
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
9388OSI-approved OSS10.9k91Active
31Gravitee
Gravitee.io - OpenSource API Management
9388OSI-approved OSS46691Active
32KrakenD
KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go.
9289OSI-approved OSS2.7k91Active
33HttpArena
Open-source HTTP benchmarking platform for testing and proving API performance.
9387OSI-approved OSS14290Active
34Hurl
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
9288OSI-approved OSS19.3k90Active
35mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
9287OSI-approved OSS46.5k90Active
36Emissary
Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on Envoy Proxy.
9087OSI-approved OSS4.5k89Active
37MCP Assert
Deterministic correctness testing for MCP servers.
8788OSI-approved OSS2687Active
38Requesto
Lightweight self-hostable API client with no cloud or telemetry.
8388OSI-approved OSS985Active
39API 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.
8779OSI-approved OSS2.9k84Active
40GhostPour
Open-source LLM API gateway with auth, multi-provider routing, and subscription-based access control.
8385OSI-approved OSS584Active
41Tailcall
High Performance GraphQL Runtime
8579OSI-approved OSS1.4k82Active
42Restfox
Offline-first HTTP and socket API testing client for web and desktop.
8381OSI-approved OSS2.8k82Active
43pREST
PostgreSQL ➕ REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new
8275OSI-approved OSS4.6k79Active
44Hoppscotch
Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia
8369OSI-approved OSS80.7k77Active
45ATAC
A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal
8073OSI-approved OSS3.7k77Active
46Apache JMeter
Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services
8070OSI-approved OSS9.6k76Active
47Kong
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
7664OSI-approved OSS44.3k71Active
48Fusio
Self-Hosted API Management for Builders
7266OSI-approved OSS2.1k69Warning
49Stoa
Open-source MCP gateway for enterprise AI.
7456OSI-approved OSS967Warning
50Lura
Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation
6848OSI-approved OSS6.8k60Warning
51Webhookx
Webhook gateway for sending, managing, and routing webhooks.
6448OSI-approved OSS30057Warning
52APIPark
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。
5124OSI-approved OSS1.8k40Warning
53Pingoo
Load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy with service discovery.
4517OSI-approved OSS1k34Critical
54Easegress
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system
4419OSI-approved OSS5.9k34Critical
55Requestly
Free and open-source API Client & Interceptor.
4614OSI-approved OSS6.8k33Critical
56Yasumu
API laboratory for designing and testing API workflows.
3824OSI-approved OSS4732Critical
57Webhook.site
⚓️ Easily test HTTP webhooks with this handy tool that displays requests instantly.
4114OSI-approved OSS6.8k30Critical
58digiRunner
API gateway for microservices.
3217OSI-approved OSS30826Critical
59Choreo Connect
Open-source, cloud-native, developer-centric API gateway.
350OSI-approved OSS31721Critical
60Previa
AI-first IDE for QA and API testing.
205OSI-approved OSS314Critical
61NyaProxy
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.
195OSI-approved OSS98314Critical
62Grafbase
The Grafbase GraphQL Federation Gateway
163OSI-approved OSS1.2k11Critical
63PomeloHook
Webhook forwarding tunnel with CLI and dashboard.
103OSI-approved OSS57Critical

Not Scored

Tracked for context, but excluded from rankings because comparable open/source-visible evidence is unavailable.

AIGC Gateway

Unified OpenAI-compatible AI gateway with workflows and monitoring.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

API 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.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Apidog

Apidog is a tool tracked for api development & testing signals, maintenance activity, and public release evidence.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Convoy

The Cloud Native Webhooks Gateway

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

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。

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Llana

No-code API wrapper for databases.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

LLMGateway

Route, manage, and analyze your LLM requests across multiple providers with a unified API interface.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Nango

Build product integrations with AI.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

OpenHook

Open-source webhook debugging tool for developers.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

programming-quotes-api

Programming Quotes API for open source projects.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Snag

Open-source webhook inspector with CLI tunnel and request console.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

SoapUI

Open-source cross-platform functional testing tool for APIs, SOAP services, REST endpoints, and web services.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

TestCheck

TestCheck is a tool tracked for api development & testing signals, maintenance activity, and public release evidence.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

VoAPI

Next-generation AI model API aggregation and distribution system.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.