Best self-hosted Software Development - API Management apps

API management is the process of creating and publishing application programming interfaces (APIs), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.

15 open source Software Development - API Management tools you host on your own server — with full control of your data and no per-user cost.

Hoppscotch Community Edition

★ 79,612

Hoppscotch is a lightweight, fast API client for testing REST, GraphQL and WebSocket requests right in the browser. Self-hosted, it's the alternative to Postman for teams that want to keep collections and environments on their own infrastructure.

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Kong

★ 43,650

Microservice API Gateway and Platform.

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Hasura

★ 32,076

Fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

Software Development - API Management Apache-2.0

Composio

★ 28,900

Integration platform for AI agents & LLMs with support for 250+ apps and custom tools.

Software Development - API Management Elastic-2.0

Opik

★ 19,721

Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications with a suite of observability tools to calibrate language model outputs across your dev and production lifecycle.

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Tyk

★ 10,747

Fast and scalable open source API Gateway. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard.

Software Development - API Management MPL-2.0

Lura

★ 6,780

High-performance API Gateway.

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Svix

★ 3,265

Open-source webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks.

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Fusio

★ 2,098

Open-source API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs.

Software Development - API Management AGPL-3.0

DreamFactory

★ 1,774

Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API.

Software Development - API Management Apache-2.0

Para

★ 572

Flexible and modular backend framework/server for object persistence, API development and authentication.

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Graphweaver

★ 551

Turn multiple data sources into a single GraphQL API.

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Hook0

★ 15

Webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) that makes it easy for online products to provide webhooks. Dispatch up to 3,000 events/month with 7 days of history retention for free.

Software Development - API Management SSPL-1.0

Aastro

★ 10

Extensible API Gateway written in Go.

Software Development - API Management Apache-2.0

form.io

A REST API building platform that utilizes a drag & drop form builder, and is application framework agnostic. Contains open source and enterprise version.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best self-hosted Software Development - API Management tools?

Among the 15 options, the most popular include Hoppscotch Community Edition, Kong, Hasura. Compare license, platform and popularity in the list below.

Is there a free open source alternative for Software Development - API Management?

Yes — all 15 tools on this page are open source and you run them on your own server, with no monthly fee.

Where can I host a Software Development - API Management app?

On a home server (homelab) or a cheap VPS from ~€4/mo. See the suggestions on this page.