Grid® for API Platforms
API Platforms Definition
API platforms consist of software tools and integrations that allow development teams to manage the complete API lifecycle. These solutions provide the necessary functionalities for API development, as well as for API management and governance.
In the design stage, API platforms allow users to plan, mock, test, create, and make changes to APIs in a secure development environment. These tools help handle the pre-production management for APIs by enabling developers to ideate, set design guidelines, and ultimately build APIs under one dashboard. From there, API platforms give users the tools to monitor, control, and monetize their APIs in a secure development environment. These tools then help administrators monitor connection consistency, traffic, errors, and security for their team’s published APIs.
To qualify for inclusion in the API Platforms category, a product must:
- Provide native tools to design and develop APIs
- Allow parallel development and team-wide visibility throughout the design process
- Enable mocking for API prototyping
- Offer security, traffic, and functionality monitoring
- Equip teams with operations and monetization tools
API Platforms Grid® Scoring Description
Solutions shown on the Grid® for API Platforms offer at least one product in each of the core categories* (API Management, API Design) and have received a minimum of 10 reviews/ratings across those categories by March 07, 2023. Scores will also be aggregated from additional categories (API Marketplace) as applicable per product. Solutions are ranked by customer satisfaction (based on user reviews) and market presence (based on market share, vendor size, and social impact) and placed into four categories on the Grid®:
- Solutions in the Leader quadrant are rated highly by G2 users and have substantial Market Presence scores. Leaders include: Postman, IBM API Connect, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Stoplight, SwaggerHub, and WSO2 API Manager
- High Performing solutions have high customer Satisfaction scores and low Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. High Performers include: Tyk and Conektto
- Contender solutions have relatively low customer Satisfaction scores and high Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. While they may have positive reviews, they do not have enough reviews to validate those ratings. Contenders include: Boomi
- Niche solutions have relatively low Satisfaction scores and low Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. While they may have positive reviews, they do not have enough reviews to validate those ratings. Niche solutions include: Kong API Platform, Azure API Management, Google Cloud Endpoints, Backendless, webMethods.io API, Informatica API Management, Google Apigee API Mangagement Platform, and Gravitee.io
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