List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for Software Development – API Management

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.

• DreamFactory – Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API. Apache-2.0 PHP
• form.io – A REST API building platform that utilizes a drag & drop form builder, and is application framework agnostic. Contains open source and enterprise version. MIT Nodejs
• Fusio – Open-source API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs. AGPL-3.0 PHP
• Hasura – Fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. Apache-2.0 Haskell
• Hoppscotch – A free, fast and beautiful API request builder. MIT Nodejs/Vue/Nuxt
• Kong – The World’s Most Popular Open Source Microservice API Gateway and Platform. Apache-2.0 Lua
• Lura – Open source High-Performance API Gateway. Apache-2.0 Go
• Para – Flexible and modular backend framework/server for object persistence, API development and authentication. Apache-2.0 Java
• Svix – Open-source webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks. MIT Docker/Rust
• Tyk – Fast and scalable open source API Gateway. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard. MPL-2.0 Go
• Yaade – Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment. MIT Docker

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