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.

#ToolHealthShippingOpennessStarsScoreStatus
01Scalar
Scalar is an open-source API platform:                                       🌐 Modern REST API Client                                        📖 Beautiful API References                                        ✨ 1st-Class OpenAPI/Swagger Support
100100OSI-approved OSS15.8k100Active
02WunderGraph
The open-source solution to building, maintaining, and collaborating on GraphQL Federation at Scale. The alternative to Apollo Studio and GraphOS.
98100OSI-approved OSS1.2k99Active
03Nango
Build product integrations with AI.
9895License unknown11.3k98Active
04Kumo
A lightweight AWS service emulator written in Go
9692OSI-approved OSS1.4k96Active
05Unkey
The Developer Platform for Modern APIs
9298OSI-approved OSS5.4k96Active
06Bruno
Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)
9395OSI-approved OSS46k95Active
07Insomnia
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
9195OSI-approved OSS39.9k95Active
08Specmatic
Open-source API development suite for contract-first testing and specification-driven workflows.
8898OSI-approved OSS39394Active
09Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
9682OSI-approved OSS32.1k93Active
10Kuadrant MCP Gateway
Envoy-based MCP gateway with auth and policy integration.
8695OSI-approved OSS9492Active
11Hoppscotch
Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia
9278OSI-approved OSS79.9k90Active
12Apache APISIX
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
8980OSI-approved OSS16.9k89Active
13AI Gateway
Native AI gateway and LLM proxy built in Rust.
7995OSI-approved OSS7789Active
14Microcks
The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project 🚀
8169OSI-approved OSS2k82Active
15testcontainers-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
7975OSI-approved OSS4.9k82Active
16Yasumu
API laboratory for designing and testing API workflows.
6883OSI-approved OSS4581Warning
17Gravitee
Gravitee.io - OpenSource API Management
7472OSI-approved OSS43878Warning
18mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
8154OSI-approved OSS44.5k77Warning
19Previa
AI-first IDE for QA and API testing.
6589OSI-approved OSS377Warning
20Requesto
Lightweight self-hostable API client with no cloud or telemetry.
7659OSI-approved OSS576Active
21NyaProxy
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.
5983OSI-approved OSS97074Warning
22KrakenD
KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go.
7846OSI-approved OSS2.7k73Warning
23Requestly
Free and open-source API Client & Interceptor.
8039OSI-approved OSS6.7k72Warning
24Data 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。
6963License unknown55172Warning
25Kong
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
7436OSI-approved OSS43.9k69Warning
26Hurl
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
6249OSI-approved OSS19.1k68Warning
27Emissary
Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on Envoy Proxy.
6845OSI-approved OSS4.5k67Warning
28Tailcall
High Performance GraphQL Runtime
6145OSI-approved OSS1.4k66Warning
29Lura
Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation
6728OSI-approved OSS6.8k60Warning
30SoapUI
Open-source cross-platform functional testing tool for APIs, SOAP services, REST endpoints, and web services.
5630License unknown1.7k58Warning
31API 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.
5834OSI-approved OSS2.9k57Warning
32Webhook.site
⚓️ Easily test HTTP webhooks with this handy tool that displays requests instantly.
6214OSI-approved OSS6.7k54Warning
33Easegress
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system
5818OSI-approved OSS5.9k53Warning
34Restfox
Offline-first HTTP and socket API testing client for web and desktop.
5114OSI-approved OSS2.7k47Warning
35APIPark
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。
497OSI-approved OSS1.8k46Critical
36LocalStack
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
444OSI-approved OSS65.2k43Critical
37BricksLLM
🔒 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.
390OSI-approved OSS1.2k39Critical
38Hookflare
Open-source webhook gateway for Stripe, GitHub, and Slack.
314OSI-approved OSS036Critical
39VoAPI
Next-generation AI model API aggregation and distribution system.
360License unknown1.1k34Critical
40One 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.
330OSI-approved OSS36.1k33Critical
41Llana
No-code API wrapper for databases.
280License unknown20633Critical
42OpenTest
Open-source test automation tool for web, mobile, and API testing.
280OSI-approved OSS50230Critical
43Gateweaver
An open-source, lightweight API Gateway built on Express.js
80OSI-approved OSS6723Critical
44Gotcha REST Client
Open-source cross-platform API test and design client.
50OSI-approved OSS20521Critical

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 confidence

Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services

90 confidence

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.

71 confidence

Apidog

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

44 confidence

APIMAN

Extensible API management platform.

93 confidence

ATAC

A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal

93 confidence

AxonHub

⚡️ Open-source AI Gateway — Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing.

88 confidence

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.

100 confidence

Choreo Connect

Open-source, cloud-native, developer-centric API gateway.

89 confidence

Convoy

The Cloud Native Webhooks Gateway

100 confidence

digiRunner

API gateway for microservices.

90 confidence

FakeCloud

Open-source AWS emulator with a broad local cloud service surface.

100 confidence

Firecamp

Developer-first OpenSource API DevTool, Postman/Insomnia alternative.

88 confidence

Fusio

Self-Hosted API Management for Builders

100 confidence

GhostPour

Open-source LLM API gateway with auth, multi-provider routing, and subscription-based access control.

89 confidence

Grafbase

The Grafbase GraphQL Federation Gateway

100 confidence

Higress

🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway

98 confidence

Hooki

Open-source webhook proxy with a visual flow editor.

62 confidence

HttpArena

Open-source HTTP benchmarking platform for testing and proving API performance.

79 confidence

HTTPie

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

97 confidence

Inference Gateway

Cloud-native gateway unifying multiple LLM providers.

89 confidence

Karate

Test Automation Made Simple

97 confidence

Keploy

Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.

100 confidence

kgateway

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

93 confidence

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]

100 confidence

LLMGateway

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

100 confidence

MCP Assert

Deterministic correctness testing for MCP servers.

98 confidence

MCP Context Forge

AI gateway, registry, and proxy for MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs.

94 confidence

Membrane API Gateway

Open source API gateway with native OpenAPI support.

89 confidence

Ministack

Free, open-source local AWS emulator.

100 confidence

Moesif Developer Portal

Open-source developer portal for API productization and monetization.

91 confidence

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. 🍥

92 confidence

OpenAPI Generator

OpenAPI code generator for API clients, server stubs, and documentation.

100 confidence

OpenHook

Open-source webhook debugging tool for developers.

71 confidence

Pingoo

Load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy with service discovery.

69 confidence

PomeloHook

Webhook forwarding tunnel with CLI and dashboard.

82 confidence

PostgREST

REST API for any Postgres database

92 confidence

pREST

PostgreSQL ➕ REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new

87 confidence

programming-quotes-api

Programming Quotes API for open source projects.

57 confidence

Proxify

Open-source lightweight reverse proxy gateway for AI APIs.

79 confidence

Snag

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

71 confidence

StepCI

Automated API Testing and Quality Assurance

92 confidence

Stoa

Open-source MCP gateway for enterprise AI.

100 confidence

TestCheck

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

30 confidence

Traefik

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

100 confidence

tRPC

🧙‍♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.

100 confidence

Tyk

Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols

100 confidence

Webhookx

Webhook gateway for sending, managing, and routing webhooks.

88 confidence