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24 alternatives to openapi

providing an sdk that can quickly make API open securely!

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. openapi launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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

    2025 · app.getelva.ai · its alternatives →

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    Generate and share OpenAPI specs with AI

    2025 · api.dev · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Open source API security platform

    2022 · metlo.com · its alternatives →

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    Octri.dev▲136

    Octri provides API teams a single platform to publish docs, generate SDKs, add MCP access, and monitor APIs in production. API Studio includes editable API docs with Ask the Docs, agent-readable docs, custom guides, code examples, and an API playground. SDK Studio generates clien

    Sep 2026 · octri.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey, I'm Martyn and I recently joined Zuplo. OpenAPI is a huge part of what we do, but getting a document up to scratch out of the gate, especially if you're not super well versed in the actual specification and what you should use and when. So we built a suite of tools to help with this called Rate My OpenAPI. It will score your OpenAPI document out of 100, as well as giving you individual scores in 4 key areas; completeness, SDK generation, security and documentation. Along with the score, you also get details of what the issues, or errors are, as well as guidance on what they actually…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    NoCodeAPI▲552

    Build third-party application APIs with NoCode

    2020 · nocodeapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Handwritten SDKs generated from OpenAPI

    2024 · speakeasy.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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    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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    API design studio for product managers

    2023 · conektto.io · its alternatives →

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    Free security analysis for API specifications

    2025 · 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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    Elvafree tier, from $100/mo▲303

    Goodbye, Postman. Your APIs have new consumers

    Sep 2026 · getelva.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source DevOps agent to secure & manage production infra

    2025 · stakpak.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…

    Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →

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    Free & open source security scanner for developers

    2023 · cycode.com · its alternatives →

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    Really good SDKs from OpenAPI

    2025 · sideko.dev · its alternatives →

  20. 20TA

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

    2023 · typeapi.org · its alternatives →

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    SSOReady▲144

    Open source developer tools for enterprise single sign-on

    2024 · github.com · 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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    Stek.io▲161

    Easily install open source software to get things done!

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Enable developers to build encryption into apps in minutes

    2021 · ubiqsecurity.com · its alternatives →

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