Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Zuplo is a serverless API management platform that lets developers quickly add authentication, rate limiting, and documentation to new or existing APIs. It enables secure API sharing with customers, partners, or teams… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zuplo – Programmable, Serverless API Management for Developers launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Zuplo Free Plan▲142

   Your API shipped and secured in record time

   2022 · zuplo.com · its alternatives →

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   Zuplo API Monetization▲185

   Build and grow a business by monetizing your APIs.

   2024 · zuplo.com · its alternatives →

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   Unubo 2.0▲324

   Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases

   2019 · unubo.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 This fragmented approach leads to outdated API specs and chaotic collaboration.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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   Sharetribe▲489

   No-code marketplace builder, fully extendable with code

   2024 · sharetribe.com · its alternatives →

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   Anything API▲656

   Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…

   Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →

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   Zudoku – Open-Source Documentation Framework for APIs▲14

   Hey all! At Zuplo, we couldn’t find an open-source documentation solution that met our high standards for both trustworthiness and programmability, so we decided to create our own (you know, as you do). Zudoku is a framework for building high quality, interactive API documentation. We’ve now released it as an OSS project under a MIT license: https://github.com/zuplo/zudoku) It’s predominantly built around a highly interactive API reference powered by OpenAPI (with GraphQL support on the way), but also has MDX support, authentication options such as Auth0 and Clerk,…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Quorini▲577

   Design and run serverless cloud API in minutes

   2024 · crosslike.club · its alternatives →

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   Xano▲390

   Hi HN — I’m Daniel, DevRel at Xano. Three years ago, Xano started as an internal tool at a software agency. We were rebuilding the same backend infrastructure for every client—auth, databases, APIs, file storage, scaling, security—over and over again. To save time, the team built a platform that could generate production-grade backends in days instead of months. That internal tool evolved into Xano, which now powers products used by both startups and large enterprises. Companies like Deriv, an online trading broker with over 3 million customers, use Xano to ship features faster without…

   2021 · xano.com · its alternatives →

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    Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query▲241

    2020 · octoproject.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Tiny API▲538

    Enabling developers to monetise their code

    2023 · tinyapi.co · its alternatives →

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    Create instantly shareable native app with a single JSON markup▲165

    2016 · jasonclient.org · its alternatives →

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    CTO.ai 2.0▲204

    A smarter workflow for Kubernetes & Cloud Native apps

    2021 · cto.ai · 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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    CTO.ai▲393

    Build, share & run developer workflows in the CLI + Slack

    2020 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking▲280

    Never let users see your website down or with bad loading speeds. Receive alerts & insights in real-time.

    2020 · simpleops.io · its alternatives →

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    Nimbella▲91

    Simple serverless cloud for developers

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Serverless Cloud▲283

    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

    2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    Catalyst by Zoho▲97

    The simplest pro-code developer platform

    2021 · catalyst.zoho.com · its alternatives →

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    Run globally distributed full-stack apps on high-performance MicroVMs▲98

    Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…

    2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →

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    SimpleOps 2.0▲180

    Keep your websites and API's up and healthy

    2020 · simpleops.io · its alternatives →

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    Now API▲197

    Instant serverless Node.JS deployments with an API.

    2016 · vercel.com · its alternatives →

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    Yappes 4.0▲83

    Build, manage and distribute your APIs in one place 🛠️

    2018 · yappes.com · its alternatives →

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    We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAPI specs▲105

    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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