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24 alternatives to Apidog Fast Request

Develop APIs fast + automatically detect endpoints

Apidog Fast Request is an IntelliJ IDEA plugin that automatically detects API endpoints in Java and Kotlin projects, allowing developers to send requests with a single click. It generates OpenAPI specifications without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Apidog▲570

    Development teams often struggle with using multiple tools like Postman and Swagger for API design, development, and testing. This fragmented approach leads to outdated API specs and chaotic collaboration. So we built Apidog: a single, unified API platform for team collaboration. It has a beautiful interface that makes it easy to create API spec, generate request data from API spec, validate responses, create mock data, orchestrate test scenarios, and publish API documentation. Apidog = Postman + Swagger + Mock + JMeter.

    2024 · apidog.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We've developed OpenAPI AutoSpec, a tool for automatically generating OpenAPI specifications from localhost network traffic. It’s designed to simplify the creation of API documentation by just using your website or service, especially useful when you're pressed for time. Documenting endpoints one by one sucks. This project originated from us needing it at our past jobs when building 3rd-party integrations. It acts as a local server proxy that listens to your application’s HTTP traffic and automatically translates this into OpenAPI 3.0 specs, documenting endpoints, requests, and…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A few months ago, I benchmarked FastAPI on an i9 MacBook Pro. I couldn't believe my eyes. A primary REST endpoint to `sum` two integers took 6 milliseconds to evaluate. It is okay if you are targeting a server in another city, but it should be less when your client and server apps are running on the same machine. FastAPI would have bottleneck-ed the inference of our lightweight UForm neural networks recently trending on HN under the title "Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute". (Thank you all for the kind words!) So I wrote another library. It has been a while since I have…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate custom data & API to build apps in less than 30s

    2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →

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    A generator for OpenAPI 3. Contribute to egorsmkv/openapi3-generator development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate, edit, lint & test your API workflow in one place

    2025 · app.getelva.ai · its alternatives →

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    Free online tool to test APIs and autogenerate documentation

    2018 · swagger.io · its alternatives →

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    FastOpenAPI is a library for generating and integrating OpenAPI schemas using Pydantic v2 and various frameworks (AioHttp, Django, Falcon, Flask, Quart, Sanic, Starlette, Tornado). - mr-fatalyst/fastopenapi

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian. We are working on Step CI - a fully automated API testing platform for developers. Step CI works programming-language independent and for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML). Our CLI and test runner are available on GitHub (https://github.com/stepci) under the MPLv2 license. Since our last launch, Step CI is now able to generate automated tests for your API based on your OpenAPI (Swagger) spec. This saves you a lot of time as you never have to write and maintain your tests again! We would like to invite you to try our tool and give us…

    2022 · stepci.com · its alternatives →

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    apiJuice▲223

    Create a hosted API for anything in seconds

    2025 · apijuice.com · its alternatives →

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    Elvafree tier, from $100/mo▲303

    Goodbye, Postman. Your APIs have new consumers

    Sep 2026 · getelva.ai · its alternatives →

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    Generate and share OpenAPI specs with AI

    2025 · api.dev · its alternatives →

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    Beautiful API references from Swagger, OpenAPI spec

    2023 · sandbox.scalar.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there HN! I just wrapped up an all-day documentation spree for Instant API, a JavaScript framework for easily building web APIs that implements type safety at the HTTP interface. It uses a function-as-a-service approach combined with a slightly modified JSDoc spec to automatically enforce parameter and schema validation before HTTP requests make it through to your code. You just write comments above your endpoint functions and voila, enforced type safety contracts between your API endpoints and your developers. OpenAPI specifications are generated automatically as a byproduct of simply…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform your notebooks into powerful APIs

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    First HTTP programming language

    2025 · httl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Your playground for writing custom API security tests

    2023 · akto.io · its alternatives →

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    api2ai parses OpenAPI Spec to generate an agent that can make API calls. For context, I recently need to explore a handful of API suites and thought LLMs can help expedite this process. After some digging, I found OpenAPI Specs are perfect fit for function calling. Based on a text prompt, api2ai can select the right endpoint and properly parse request params and make api calls. It also handles authentication, currently it supports basic auth, api keys, and bearer token schemes. The tool has helped me explore and see APIs in action without a deep dive into the docs or using postman. It’s open…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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  22. 22TA

    An OpenAPI alternative to describe REST APIs for type-safe code generation.

    2023 · typeapi.org · its alternatives →

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    Automate all your routine dev work for free with API

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    ApiHome▲73

    Home of API testing

    2022 · apihome.io · its alternatives →

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