Self-hosted Software Development - API Management software

API management is the process of creating and publishing application programming interfaces (APIs), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.

15 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Kong

Microservice API Gateway and Platform.

Actively maintained ★ 44.3k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Hasura

Fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

Actively maintained ★ 32.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Composio

Integration platform for AI agents & LLMs with support for 250+ apps and custom tools.

Actively maintained ★ 30.9k Elastic-2.0 ~$5/mo

Opik

Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications with a suite of observability tools to calibrate language model outputs across your dev and production lifecycle.

Actively maintained ★ 23.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Tyk

Fast and scalable API Gateway. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard.

Actively maintained ★ 10.9k MPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Lura

High-performance API Gateway.

Actively maintained ★ 6.8k Apache-2.0 ~$3.5/mo

Svix

Webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks.

Actively maintained ★ 3.5k MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Fusio

API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs.

Actively maintained ★ 2.1k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

DreamFactory

Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API.

Actively maintained ★ 1.8k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

GoModel

AI gateway written in Go with a unified OpenAI-compatible API for multiple LLM providers, USD cost tracking, budgets, usage analytics, guardrails, caching, and an admin dashboard.

Actively maintained ★ 1.3k MIT 🐳 Docker~$40/mo

Para

Flexible and modular backend framework/server for object persistence, API development and authentication.

Actively maintained ★ 574 Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Graphweaver

Turn multiple data sources into a single GraphQL API.

Actively maintained ★ 558 MIT ~$5/mo

Aastro

Extensible API Gateway written in Go.

Actively maintained ★ 24 Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Hook0

Webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) that makes it easy for online products to provide webhooks. Dispatch up to 3,000 events/month with 7 days of history retention for free.

Actively maintained ★ 16 SSPL-1.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo