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24 alternatives to APIRank.dev – We crawled and ranked public APIs from the internet

tl;dr we at Escape (YC W23), we scanned 5651+ public APIs on the internet with our in house feedback driven API exploration tech, and ranked them using security, performance, reliability, and design criteria. The results are public on https://apirank.dev. You can request that we index your own API to the list for free and see how it compares to others. Why we did that? During a YC meetup I spoke with a fellow founder that told me how hard it was to pick the right external APIs to use within your own projects. I realized that most of what we build relies on public APIs from external…

APIRank.dev is a directory that ranks over 5,600 public APIs found across the internet using criteria including security, performance, reliability, and design. Developed by Escape, a Y Combinator-backed company, the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. APIRank.dev – We crawled and ranked public APIs from the internet launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A ranking of 5651+ public APIs on the internet

    2023 · apirank.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.

    Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →

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    ExploreYC▲565

    Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data

    Jul 2026 · exploreyc.com · its alternatives →

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    IMDB for APIs, the world's biggest API search engine

    2022 · apitracker.io · its alternatives →

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    APIsList▲293

    The updated list of the public APIs

    2022 · apislist.com · its alternatives →

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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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    Hey, HN! You probably know that the ordering of products on Amazon, posts in FB, and search results in Google is personalized for each visitor, as it directly affects conversion, click rate and engagement. But not everyone can afford to hire an army of PhDs to squeeze every penny out of the ranking, and not everyone agrees on the current (im)balance between privacy and profits. So we built Metarank, an open-source and privacy-focused personalization engine. It can rerank in real-time any type of content, using only the data you allow, and optimize metrics you define. We made a lot of…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A collection of public APIs for your next project

    2021 · public-apis.io · its alternatives →

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    DEV APIs▲320

    Powerful APIs to help grow your business

    2021 · nocodeapi.com · its alternatives →

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    I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I am Jiayuan, and I'm here to introduce a tool we've been building over the past few months: Devv (https://devv.ai). In simple terms, it is an AI-powered search engine specifically designed for developers. Now, you might ask, with so many AI search engines already available—Perplexity, You.com, Phind, and several open-source projects—why do we need another one? We all know that Generative Search Engines are built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)[1] combined with Large Language Models (LLMs). Most of the products mentioned above use indexes from general search engines…

    2024 · devv.ai · its alternatives →

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    Explore the largest API directory in the galaxy

    2014 · publicapis.com · its alternatives →

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    Ditch your scraper. Make one API call with any tool.

    Jun 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    View, monitor, and analyze 1.8M+ US jobs

    Jun 2026 · bluedoor.sh · its alternatives →

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    We've indexed 5M+ GitHub users and built a ranking system that goes beyond follower counts. The idea started from frustration: GitHub is terrible for discovery. You can't answer "who are the best Python developers in Berlin?" or "who identified transformer-based models before they blew up?" without scraping everything yourself. So we did. What we built: CodeRank score - a composite reputation signal across contributions, repository impact, and community influence Tastemaker score - did you star repos at 50 stars that now have 50,000? We track that Comparison Builder - allows users to build…

    Mar 2026 · coderank.me · its alternatives →

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    Integuru▲161

    Hey HN! We’re Alan and Richard from Integuru (YC W24). We generate fast, reliable integrations for platforms lacking official APIs. About 2 years ago, we released the first agent that reverse-engineers network traffic to build integrations (https://github.com/Integuru-AI/Integuru). Since then, we’ve developed a new approach to reverse-engineer platforms’ source code directly. This solution also includes authentication support. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/4l2L8fILC2g?si=nbWbDiFrWZIWRPM7. Many AI products need to integrate with web apps, but platforms…

    May 2026 · integuru.com · its alternatives →

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    An open benchmark for AI agents that test APIs

    May 2026 · resources.kusho.ai · its alternatives →

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    Thousands of tools to automate your business. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, and integrate your apps and AI agents.

    2015 · apifier.com · its alternatives →

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    Implement an invite list with in-built referral via POST API

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    The open source discovery of libraries for programmers

    2015 · libraries.io · its alternatives →

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    Api Hunt▲180

    Discover an extensive collection of over 500 technology APIs

    2024 · apihunt.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello API▲187

    Turn your boring API docs into an interactive playground

    2024 · helloapi.co · its alternatives →

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    Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment. - EsperoTech/yaade

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate all your routine dev work for free with API

    2022 · its alternatives →

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