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24 alternatives to Public APIs

Find public APIs and start building projects and share them.

Public APIs is a web application that provides an interface for discovering public APIs from an open-source project. It helps developers find and explore available APIs to use in their projects, then share what they… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Public APIs launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Public APIs 3.0▲538

   A collection of public APIs for your next project

   2021 · public-apis.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Public APIs▲144

   A collaborative list of 1400+ public APIs

   2023 · publicapis.dev · its alternatives →

3. 3
   PublicAPIs▲274

   Explore the largest API directory in the galaxy

   2014 · publicapis.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Public APIs▲8

   A collective list of JSON APIs for use in web development.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Public APIs▲67

   A directory of 700+ free and public apis

   2024 · publicapis.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   APIsList▲293

   The updated list of the public APIs

   2022 · apislist.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Micro▲93

   APIs for everyday use

   2021 · m3o.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   API List▲559

   A collective list of APIs. Build something.

   2017 · apilist.fun · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Waitlist API▲807

   Quick and easy waitlist with built in referral.

   2020 · getwaitlist.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Publicly▲421

    Build in the open

    2017 · publicly.io · its alternatives →

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    APIRank.dev▲94

    A ranking of 5651+ public APIs on the internet

    2023 · apirank.dev · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Free Public APIs for Developers▲13

    A curated list of 1500+ public APIs for your next project

    2025 · openpublicapis.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Medium API▲472

    Official Medium API

    2015 · medium.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    APIs With GitHub▲276

    Create simple JSON APIs with GitHub Repository

    2019 · apiwithgithub.com · its alternatives →

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    API Search▲10

    Search & discover awesome public APIs

    2018 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Hello API▲187

    Turn your boring API docs into an interactive playground

    2024 · helloapi.co · its alternatives →

17. 17
    DEV APIs▲320

    Powerful APIs to help grow your business

    2021 · nocodeapi.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Postman Collections▲302

    Biggest library of ready-made API collections for Postman

    2017 · bubble.io · its alternatives →

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    API Tracker▲297

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

    2022 · apitracker.io · its alternatives →

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    Meerkat API▲258

    Harness the power of live with Meerkat's public API

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    APIRank.dev – We crawled and ranked public APIs from the internet▲176

    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…

    2023 · apirank.dev · its alternatives →

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    M3O – Universal Public API Interface▲110

    Hey all, I'm Asim, the founder of M3O, a curated catalog of APIs that provides simple abstractions for the most common API use cases. The idea is to create a single place to explore, discover and consume public APIs as higher level building blocks. Most of the time I don’t use all the features of an API and I assume most devs don't either, so picking and choosing the common patterns, abstracting it away and surfacing a new building block is useful. For example, Twilio has a lot of APIs but I only care about SMS. Even then I just want a quick way to send it. So stripping it all away results…

    2022 · m3o.com · its alternatives →

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    Abstract APIs▲341

    Simple, powerful APIs for everyday dev tasks

    2020 · abstractapi.com · its alternatives →

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    WrapAPI▲291

    Build an API on top of any website

    2016 · wrapapi.com · its alternatives →

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