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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, then health, shipping, confidence, GitHub stars, and name.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | LiteLLM 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] | 98 | 99 | OSI-approved OSS | 58.6k | 99 | Active |
| 02 | Bifrost Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS. | 98 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 8.1k | 98 | Active |
| 03 | new-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. 🍥 | 98 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 48.1k | 97 | Active |
| 04 | Ministack Free, open-source local AWS emulator. | 98 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.6k | 97 | Active |
| 05 | Bruno Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia) | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 46.9k | 97 | Active |
| 06 | Scalar Scalar is an open-source API platform: 🌐 Modern REST API Client 📖 Beautiful API References ✨ 1st-Class OpenAPI/Swagger Support | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 16.1k | 97 | Active |
| 07 | Traefik The Cloud Native Application Proxy | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 64.8k | 97 | Active |
| 08 | AxonHub ⚡️ Open-source AI Gateway — Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.2k | 97 | Active |
| 09 | MCP Context Forge AI gateway, registry, and proxy for MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.5k | 97 | Active |
| 10 | Insomnia The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 40k | 96 | Active |
| 11 | WunderGraph The open-source solution to building, maintaining, and collaborating on GraphQL Federation at Scale. The alternative to Apollo Studio and GraphOS. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.3k | 96 | Active |
| 12 | Kuadrant MCP Gateway Envoy-based MCP gateway with auth and policy integration. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 100 | 96 | Active |
| 13 | Keploy Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing. | 97 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 18.5k | 96 | Active |
| 14 | kgateway The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway | 97 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.7k | 96 | Active |
| 15 | Unkey The Developer Platform for Modern APIs | 96 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.4k | 96 | Active |
| 16 | Apache APISIX The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway | 96 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 17.1k | 96 | Active |
| 17 | Specmatic Open-source API development suite for contract-first testing and specification-driven workflows. | 96 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 395 | 96 | Active |
| 18 | OpenAPI Generator OpenAPI code generator for API clients, server stubs, and documentation. | 96 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 26.7k | 96 | Active |
| 19 | Higress 🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway | 96 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 9.4k | 95 | Active |
| 20 | FakeCloud Open-source AWS emulator with a broad local cloud service surface. | 95 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 544 | 95 | Active |
| 21 | PostgREST REST API for any Postgres database | 95 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 27.7k | 95 | Active |
| 22 | Inference Gateway Cloud-native gateway unifying multiple LLM providers. | 95 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 212 | 95 | Active |
| 23 | Karate Test Automation Made Simple | 94 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 9k | 95 | Active |
| 24 | Membrane API Gateway Open source API gateway with native OpenAPI support. | 95 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 641 | 94 | Active |
| 25 | 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 | 95 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 5k | 94 | Active |
| 26 | Microcks The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project 🚀 | 94 | 90 | OSI-approved OSS | 2k | 92 | Active |
| 27 | Tyk Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols | 93 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 10.8k | 92 | Active |
| 28 | Gravitee Gravitee.io - OpenSource API Management | 93 | 88 | OSI-approved OSS | 454 | 91 | Active |
| 29 | Hurl Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text. | 92 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 19.2k | 91 | Active |
| 30 | Hasura Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. | 92 | 88 | OSI-approved OSS | 32.1k | 90 | Active |
| 31 | Hoppscotch Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia | 92 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 80.3k | 90 | Active |
| 32 | HttpArena Open-source HTTP benchmarking platform for testing and proving API performance. | 92 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 112 | 90 | Active |
| 33 | OkHttp HTTP client for JVM, Android, and GraalVM applications. | 91 | 85 | OSI-approved OSS | 47.1k | 89 | Active |
| 34 | mitmproxy An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. | 90 | 85 | OSI-approved OSS | 45k | 88 | Active |
| 35 | 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. | 90 | 85 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.9k | 88 | Active |
| 36 | Emissary Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on Envoy Proxy. | 89 | 85 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.5k | 87 | Active |
| 37 | Kumo A lightweight AWS service emulator written in Go | 89 | 82 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.5k | 86 | Active |
| 38 | MCP Assert Deterministic correctness testing for MCP servers. | 85 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 24 | 86 | Active |
| 39 | GhostPour Open-source LLM API gateway with auth, multi-provider routing, and subscription-based access control. | 84 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 4 | 85 | Active |
| 40 | tRPC 🧙♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. | 86 | 77 | OSI-approved OSS | 40.6k | 83 | Active |
| 41 | KrakenD KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go. | 85 | 79 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.7k | 83 | Active |
| 42 | Tailcall High Performance GraphQL Runtime | 85 | 79 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.4k | 83 | Active |
| 43 | Requesto Lightweight self-hostable API client with no cloud or telemetry. | 81 | 83 | OSI-approved OSS | 7 | 82 | Active |
| 44 | Yasumu API laboratory for designing and testing API workflows. | 72 | 73 | OSI-approved OSS | 46 | 72 | Warning |
| 45 | Apache JMeter Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services | 74 | 56 | OSI-approved OSS | 9.5k | 67 | Warning |
| 46 | Webhookx Webhook gateway for sending, managing, and routing webhooks. | 66 | 64 | OSI-approved OSS | 298 | 65 | Warning |
| 47 | Fusio Self-Hosted API Management for Builders | 65 | 54 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.1k | 61 | Warning |
| 48 | Kong 🦍 The API and AI Gateway | 67 | 43 | OSI-approved OSS | 44.1k | 57 | Warning |
| 49 | pREST PostgreSQL ➕ REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new | 66 | 43 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.6k | 57 | Warning |
| 50 | digiRunner API gateway for microservices. | 59 | 47 | OSI-approved OSS | 306 | 54 | Warning |
| 51 | 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. | 53 | 43 | OSI-approved OSS | 983 | 49 | Warning |
| 52 | 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。 | 56 | 37 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.8k | 48 | Warning |
| 53 | Previa AI-first IDE for QA and API testing. | 54 | 41 | OSI-approved OSS | 3 | 48 | Warning |
| 54 | ATAC A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal | 54 | 33 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.7k | 46 | Warning |
| 55 | Stoa Open-source MCP gateway for enterprise AI. | 49 | 35 | OSI-approved OSS | 5 | 44 | Critical |
| 56 | Requestly Free and open-source API Client & Interceptor. | 55 | 23 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.8k | 42 | Warning |
| 57 | Lura Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation | 54 | 24 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.8k | 42 | Warning |
| 58 | Webhook.site ⚓️ Easily test HTTP webhooks with this handy tool that displays requests instantly. | 40 | 18 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.7k | 31 | Critical |
| 59 | Easegress A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system | 36 | 16 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.9k | 28 | Critical |
| 60 | Pingoo Load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy with service discovery. | 31 | 10 | OSI-approved OSS | 1k | 22 | Critical |
| 61 | Restfox Offline-first HTTP and socket API testing client for web and desktop. | 30 | 10 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.8k | 22 | Critical |
| 62 | Choreo Connect Open-source, cloud-native, developer-centric API gateway. | 30 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 317 | 18 | Critical |
| 63 | Grafbase The Grafbase GraphQL Federation Gateway | 22 | 5 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.2k | 15 | Critical |
| 64 | PomeloHook Webhook forwarding tunnel with CLI and dashboard. | 16 | 4 | OSI-approved OSS | 5 | 11 | Critical |
| 65 | Hookflare Open-source webhook gateway for Stripe, GitHub, and Slack. | 11 | 3 | OSI-approved OSS | 0 | 8 | Critical |
| 66 | Hooki Open-source webhook proxy with a visual flow editor. | 12 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 5 | 7 | Critical |
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
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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.