Feature

WebSockets

Persistent bidirectional connections for live data.

36 providers 261 APIs 33 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.

36 API providers on the APIs.io network offer websockets. The highest-rated are Postman, Solana, fal, Polygon, Amazon API Gateway.

Providers

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

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 9 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 13 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
CryptoCompare CryptoCompare (now CoinDesk Data / CCData, acquired by CoinDesk in late 2024) is a long-standing crypto mar... 4 APIs 59.2 Encore Encore is a backend application framework and developer cloud that lets engineering teams build type-safe d... 5 APIs 59.2 Backpack Backpack is a Solana-first crypto company founded by Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver — the same team behin... 3 APIs 59.0 Triton One Triton One is a high-performance Solana RPC and blockchain infrastructure provider operating globally distr... 9 APIs 58.3 Bloomberg AIM Bloomberg's Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) is a comprehensive buy-side solution offering global, multi-... 4 APIs 58.2 LBank LBank is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, ETF/leveraged... 5 APIs 54.1 Blockdaemon Blockdaemon is an institutional blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Konstantin Richter. It... 11 APIs 53.9 Binance Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, providing APIs for spot trading, ... 21 APIs 53.1 MEXC MEXC is a global cryptocurrency exchange providing REST and WebSocket APIs for spot trading, perpetual futu... 5 APIs 52.5 Tensor Tensor is the Solana-native NFT marketplace and trading protocol founded by Tensor HQ and now stewarded by ... 3 APIs 52.2 Akka Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven app... 4 APIs 49.7 S&P Global S&P Global (NYSE SPGI) is the parent of S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones I... 9 APIs 49.5 Lunar Energy Lunar Energy is a Mountain View, California-based residential clean-energy company founded in August 2020 b... 3 APIs 47.9
Thin 10 Limited public surface area

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 BLPAPIPublic + 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 modesWeb 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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