Feature

WebSockets

Persistent bidirectional connections for live data.

40 providers 215 APIs 36 declared variants

A WebSocket channel pushes updates to clients without polling. Essential for market data, chat, presence, collaborative editing, and any interface that has to feel live.

40 API providers on the APIs.io network offer websockets. The highest-rated are Medplum, Kraken, Solana, Polygon, fal.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 8 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Lunar EnergyLunar Energy is a Mountain View, California-based residential clean-energy company founded in August 2020 b...2 APIs53.4TensorTensor is the Solana-native NFT marketplace and trading protocol founded by Tensor HQ and now stewarded by ...2 APIs52.6CryptoCompareCryptoCompare (now CoinDesk Data / CCData, acquired by CoinDesk in late 2024) is a long-standing crypto mar...2 APIs52.2SoracomSoracom is a global IoT cellular connectivity and platform provider headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 2014...10 APIs52.2Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintai...2 APIs51.3Bloomberg AIMBloomberg's Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) is a comprehensive buy-side solution offering global, multi-...3 APIs51.1Triton OneTriton One is a high-performance Solana RPC and blockchain infrastructure provider operating globally distr...3 APIs49.4DeepgramDeepgram is an enterprise voice AI platform that provides speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent A...3 APIs49.2BlockdaemonBlockdaemon is an institutional blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Konstantin Richter. It...11 APIs47.5DiscordDiscord is a voice, video and text communication service used by hundreds of millions of people to hang out...3 APIs46.9MEXCMEXC is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, perpetual futu...2 APIs46.1LBankLBank is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, ETF/leveraged...3 APIs44.4BinanceBinance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, providing APIs for spot trading, ...19 APIs41.4Apache TomcatApache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression...1 API41.3DoclingDocling is an open-source toolkit for parsing diverse document formats — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, image...2 APIs41.3NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...1 API40.9LoadsmartLoadsmart is a digital freight technology company and 4PL that connects shippers, carriers, warehouses, and...2 APIs40.8
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This feature is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

API Client (HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, Socket.io)Docling Serve HTTP API with sync and async endpoints, WebSocket task streaming, and zip-bundle outputGateway WebSocket for realtime eventsHTTP and WebSocketHTTP/WebSocket wrapper for BLPAPIInternal FastAPI surface (not a public API) under `/api/` with routes for teams, sessions, runs, gallery, mcp, settings, validation, and a `/api/ws` WebSocket for streamingNotification 2.0 — high-throughput, ordered, persistent WebSocket streaming with JWT-token auth and per-subscriber bufferingPublic + authenticated WebSocket streams for market data, order updates, position updates, and RFQRaw endpoints (api.raw) for webhooks and low-level HTTP, plus streaming endpoints for WebSocketsReal-time WebSocket streamerReal-time WebSocket transcription companion to the Scribe batch APIsReal-time subscriptions via WebSocket connectionsShared and Dedicated JSON-RPC + WebSocket nodes for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Optimism, Cosmos, Polkadot, NEAR, Cardano, Stellar, XRP, Tron, Monad, Hyperliquid, and moreSolana JSON-RPC PubSub over WebSocket — accountSubscribe, programSubscribe, signatureSubscribe, slotSubscribe, blockSubscribe, logsSubscribe, rootSubscribeSoracom Beam — cloud proxy for TLS termination and HTTP/MQTT/TCP/UDP/WebSocket protocol conversionSubscriptions (Webhooks + Websockets)Subspace real-time WebSocket API streaming dock appointment eventsSynchronous, asynchronous queue, server-sent streaming, and WebSocket realtime invocation modesVoice transport via SIP trunking, PSTN transfer, CCaaS native streaming, WebSocket, gRPC, and raw RTPWeb Endpoints via FastAPI, ASGI, WSGI, and custom web servers — streaming and WebSocketsWebSocket API SupportWebSocket APIsWebSocket Streaming for Live Market DataWebSocket StreamsWebSocket SubscriptionsWebSocket SupportWebSocket TTS for bidirectional streaming synthesisWebSocket and Socket.IO TestingWebSocket clusters per asset classWebSocket streaming for low-latency synthesisWebSocket streaming for real-time STTWebSocket subscriptions for `newTransaction`, `ammOrderUpdate`, `tcompBidUpdate`, with ping/unsubscribe control framesWebSocket subscriptions for blob.Subscribe, header.Subscribe, fraud.SubscribeWebSocket telemetry streamsWebSocket v2 with Authenticated TradingWhirligig WebSocket with transactionSubscribe — the missing Solana subscription

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