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Developer-First API Infrastructure

Ship secure REST APIs in minutes, not weeks

Built-in authentication, intelligent rate limiting, and auto-generated OpenAPI docs. Everything you need to build, secure, and scale production-ready APIs.

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Everything you need to build production APIs

Secure your APIs with OAuth 2.0, API keys, and JWT tokens out of the box. Role-based access control and scopes let you define exactly who can access what. No third-party auth service required.

Protect your infrastructure with flexible rate limits per endpoint, user, or API key. Configure sliding windows, token buckets, or custom algorithms. Real-time monitoring shows you exactly who's hitting what limits.

Auto-generated interactive docs that stay in sync with your code. Try endpoints directly in the browser, see request and response examples, and export to Postman or Insomnia. Your API documentation writes itself.

Authentication dashboard showing API key management and OAuth configuration
Rate limiting analytics dashboard with graphs showing request patterns and throttling metrics
Interactive API documentation interface with endpoint explorer and code examples

Integrate in any language

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curl -X GET https://api.example.com/v1/users \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" # Response: 200 OK { "users": [ {"id": 1, "name": "Alice"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Bob"} ] }
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const response = await fetch('https://api.example.com/v1/users', { method: 'GET', headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' } }); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data.users);
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import requests headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' } response = requests.get( 'https://api.example.com/v1/users', headers=headers ) users = response.json()['users']
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require 'net/http' require 'json' uri = URI('https://api.example.com/v1/users') request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri) request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json' response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http| http.request(request) end users = JSON.parse(response.body)['users']
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package main import ( "fmt" "io" "net/http" ) func main() { client := &http.Client{} req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.example.com/v1/users", nil) req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY") req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json") resp, _ := client.Do(req) defer resp.Body.Close() body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body) fmt.Println(string(body)) }
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<?php $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.example.com/v1/users'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [ 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY', 'Content-Type: application/json' ]); $response = curl_exec($ch); $users = json_decode($response, true)['users']; curl_close($ch); ?>

Works seamlessly with your existing stack

Not just another API tool — here's how API Platform integrates with the services you already depend on.

  • Datadog

    Every API call, rate limit hit, and auth failure streams directly to your observability dashboard with zero config.

  • Stripe

    Usage-based billing syncs automatically — your customers get invoiced for exactly what they consume through your API.

  • GitHub

    OpenAPI specs commit on every deploy, so your documentation PRs stay in the same workflow as your code.

  • Slack

    Rate limit violations and auth anomalies ping your team channel instantly, before they become incidents.

  • PagerDuty

    API downtime or SLA breaches trigger alerts with full context — no manual threshold configuration needed.

  • Postman

    One-click export of your entire API collection with auth pre-configured, so your team can test immediately.

Deep dive

Rate limits that adapt to your traffic

Define tiered limits by endpoint, API key, or user — then watch the platform enforce them in real time. Burst allowances absorb spikes without dropping legitimate requests, and the dashboard shows exactly who hit which threshold and when. No guesswork, no surprise overages, no angry customers.

  1. 1Per-endpoint rules let you protect expensive operations separately
  2. 2Burst tokens absorb traffic spikes without rejecting valid calls
  3. 3Real-time counter shows remaining quota before the next reset
  4. 4Automatic 429 responses include Retry-After headers for client backoff
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From API key to first call in under two minutes

Four screens that take you from signup to a working authenticated request.

API Keys
01Generate a key with one click, scope it to specific endpoints, and copy the token — no email verification dance required.
Usage Dashboard
02Every request logs in real time: status code, latency, rate-limit headroom, and the exact key that made the call.
Rate Limits
03Set per-key quotas with sliding windows or token buckets, then watch live counters tick down as traffic flows through.
OpenAPI Docs
04Interactive reference with live Try It buttons — paste your key, tweak the payload, and see the real response in the browser.

Built for scale

Uptime SLA

99.99%

P95 auth latency

< 50ms

Requests per month

10B+

Countries served

150+

What developers are saying

We switched from a homegrown solution and cut our auth-related support tickets by 80% in the first month. The OpenAPI docs are so clear that our partners onboard themselves.
Sarah Chen, Platform Lead at Streamline
Rate limiting used to be a nightmare of Redis scripts and manual overrides. Now it's three dropdowns and a slider. Our API hasn't gone down since we migrated.
Marcus Rodriguez, CTO at DataFlow
The interactive docs let our customers test endpoints with their own keys before writing a single line of code. That alone justified the switch.
Priya Patel, Developer Relations at CloudSync

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