An API can be thought of as an instruction manual for communication between multiple software apparatuses. For example, an API may be used for database communication between web applications. By extracting the implementation and relinquishing data into objects, an API simplifies programming.
A collective list of free APIs
Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io (open-source alternative to Postman, Insomnia)
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
A cryptocurrency trading API with more than 100 exchanges in JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / C# / PHP / Go
Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
Beautiful static documentation for your API
🤖 The free, Open Source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others. Self-hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more. Features: Generate Text, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P and decentralized inference
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
YApi 是一个可本地部署的、打通前后端及QA的、可视化的接口管理平台