Use Case

Platform Engineering & Developer Portals

Self-service golden paths for internal developers.

26 providers 113 APIs 19 declared variants

Internal platforms that let product teams provision, deploy, and discover services themselves — developer portals, service catalogs, templates, and paved-road defaults.

26 API providers on the APIs.io network offer platform engineering & developer portals. The highest-rated are Pluralsight, Gitea, Postman, Amazon API Gateway, GitHub Copilot.

Providers

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Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
PluralsightAPIs for the Pluralsight technology skills and engineering intelligence platform, providing access to cours...30 APIs72.4GiteaGitea is an open-source, self-hosted Git service and all-in-one DevOps platform written in Go and licensed ...2 APIs70.8PostmanPostman is the world's leading API platform, used by 35+ million developers to design, build, test, documen...21 APIs67.2
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and...3 APIs65.8GitHub CopilotAPIs and resources for GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster.1 API65.5WSO2WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible...7 APIs58.6Amazon ProtonAWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and s...1 API54.6
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
APIMaticAPIMatic is a developer experience platform for APIs that specializes in automated SDK generation, API docu...1 API51.0Amazon AmplifyAWS Amplify is a set of tools and services for building secure, scalable full-stack applications powered by...2 APIs50.9ChoreoWSO2 Choreo is an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and application orchestration platform...3 APIs49.1Amazon EKSAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Ku...1 API48.9ApinizerApinizer is an API management platform that provides API gateway, API portal, API testing, monitoring, and ...1 API48.6HarnessHarness is an AI-powered software delivery platform that automates and accelerates the entire software deve...17 APIs47.5Amazon CodeGuru ReviewerAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer is an automated code review service that uses machine learning and AWS best practi...1 API46.5Amazon Serverless Application RepositoryThe AWS Serverless Application Repository enables teams, organizations, and individual developers to find, ...4 APIs45.3Atlassian CompassAtlassian Compass is a developer experience platform that helps engineering teams understand, manage, and i...1 API43.8AnchoreAnchore is a container and software supply chain security company providing open source and enterprise tool...1 API42.1ArchbeeArchbee is a documentation platform for software teams that enables creating, managing, and publishing tech...3 APIs40.2BackstageBackstage is an open-source developer portal platform created by Spotify. It provides a centralized softwar...6 APIs40.0
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
AmpersandAmpersand is a developer-first platform for building native SaaS integrations. It provides an embeddable UI...1 API37.2ApimanApiman is an open source API management platform featuring a REST API, manager UI, and standalone developer...1 API33.6
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
ApivaultApivault is an open-source directory and gateway for discovering public APIs. The platform catalogs thousan...1 API19.8ApiShareApiShare is an API governance platform that provides a unified operational model for API lifecycle manageme...1 API19.0APIwizAPIwiz is a federated API management platform that streamlines the complete API lifecycle from design throu...1 API18.5ApiableApiable is an API portal platform that enables businesses to create single-tenant, white-label developer po...1 API16.2API StackAPI Stack is a free directory and discovery platform powered by Apideck that catalogs 213+ third-party API ...1 API12.4

What Providers Actually Declared

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Developer PortalDeveloper Portal EmbeddingDeveloper Portal GenerationDeveloper Portal HostingDeveloper Portal IntegrationDeveloper Portal PlatformsDeveloper Portal for Partner APIsDeveloper PortalsDeveloper ProductivityDeveloper Self-ServiceDeveloper Self-Service PortalsDeveloper self-service security scanning via CLI toolsInternal Developer PlatformInternal Developer Platform IntegrationInternal Developer Platform ProvisionInternal Developer PlatformsInternal Developer PortalPlatform EngineeringRapid Prototyping

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