State of API developer portals

A detailed review of top 100 API companies about how they expose, manage and monetize their APIs.

Alexandre Airvault

State of API developer portals

A detailed review of top 100 API companies about how they expose, manage and monetize their APIs.

Alexandre Airvault

Top API developer portal features

Based on the world’s top 100 API developer portals, we have created a checklist in decreasing order of importance of the major features to consider. But what stands out most is that an API portal needs constant updating in line with API development in order for it to provide the best user experience and documentation.

Top features

What are the portal features for companies which raised over $85m?

Features of the most funded companies:

What are the features of companies that have high traffic?

Higher traffic companies (more than 600k monthly visits):

Examples

API reference

App: Alchemy

Sample examples

Search bar

App: Algolia

Errors description

App: Alloy

Customer examples

App: Persona

Self registration

Sandbox

Code snippets

Changelog

App: Co:here

Quickstart

API status

App: Alchemy

SDK

App: Algolia

FAQ section

API key instantiated at sign-up

Rate limits

App: Plaid

Postman collection

App: Checkr

Try it out

API logs

Other features with best in class experience:

Videos

App: Algolia

Use cases

Versioning

App: Co:here

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