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24 alternatives to Mayhem for API

Automated REST API testing to find bugs in minutes

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mayhem for API launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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 This fragmented approach leads to outdated API specs and chaotic collaboration.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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    Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

    2022 · github.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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    Fern▲260

    We built the world’s first generated, idiomatic gRPC and REST SDK. If you have public gRPC and REST endpoints, Fern is the SDK provider for you.

    2025 · buildwithfern.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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    API to classify & protect sensitive data in any application

    2021 · firewallforai.com · its alternatives →

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    ApiHome▲73

    Home of API testing

    2022 · apihome.io · 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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    Open source API security platform

    2022 · metlo.com · its alternatives →

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    Free online tool to test APIs and autogenerate documentation

    2018 · swagger.io · its alternatives →

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    We built API Radar to track exposed API keys from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and other major providers—in real time—from public GitHub repositories. Why? Leaked AI keys are everywhere. They power bots, cost companies thousands, and even expose user data. But no one had a clean dashboard to see the leaks as they happen — until now. What you’ll find: Full redacted + raw API key leaks Real-time feed of exposed repos Leaderboards by author, repo, and provider Filtering by provider (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.) Timeline of key exposure trends Built for security researchers, devs, and AI companies…

    Jan 2026 · apiradar.live · its alternatives →

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    Your playground for writing custom API security tests

    2023 · akto.io · its alternatives →

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    Routebase▲106

    Design, mock, test, and document APIs from one living spec. Full test runner built in: suites, scenarios, ten auth schemes, CLI in CI. No OpenAPI needed.

    Jul 2026 · routebase.dev · its alternatives →

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    Detectify▲124

    Application security testing reimagined

    2014 · detectify.com · its alternatives →

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    AppSec | Built By Hackers

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Custom API endpoints with realistic fake data in seconds

    2022 · interimapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Powerful tool for API flow integration, testing, prototyping

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Simple, powerful, secure API performance monitoring

    2021 · apicontext.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered API test automation. Save 90% of testing time

    2025 · irual.me · its alternatives →

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  21. 21OS

    tl;dr we released openapi.security, an online tool that performs a dozen of security tests on any given openapi/swagger-based API, with no signup or email required. You can try it here: https://openapi.security My team at Escape (YC W23) is mainly focused on securing GraphQL APIs. For this, we developed a new approach called Feedback driven API Exploration. Basically, we infer the right security tests cases to run using the specification and a carefully crafted in house graph traversal algorithm. (It's a bit long to describe here but we published a more in depth explanation of…

    2023 · openapi.security · its alternatives →

  22. 22MS
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    Stop half-done APIs! Cherrybomb is a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by auditing your API specifications, validating them and running API security tests. - blst-security/cherrybomb

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Test Anything, Code Nothing!

    2025 · opcito.com · its alternatives →

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