API Governance

API Governance is an AI tool that reviews APIs against a curated list of best practices, the API Governance Top-10 List, to detect and resolve design and implementation issues. The AI is trained on 10k public APIs. It is aimed at API developers who want automated reviews, CTOs and leaders who want to ship industry-standard public, web and mobile APIs, and API integrators who want fewer integration issues.

The tool automates API reviews: it runs checks on an API's endpoints, flags issues that break the Top-10 guidelines, and produces governance reports and badges. On the Growth plan it runs inside CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions and connects to API gateways, Jira and GitHub Issues. A white paper describes the Top-10 list, which is a set of guidelines for standardisation and compliance in API design and development.

Plans start free with no credit card required. Startup Essentials costs $0 per month with unlimited runs, up to 50 endpoints, reports and badges, and support by documentation and tickets. Growth costs $199 per month with unlimited runs, up to 100 endpoints, CI/CD and GitHub Actions, integrations with API gateways, Jira and GitHub Issues, and support by tickets and calls. Enterprise is a custom quote with unlimited APIs and API gateway integration, arranged through a demo.

Use cases

• Consistent public, web and mobile APIs across developers and products
• Fewer integration issues and lower maintenance costs for API integrators
• Avoiding costly errors and rework in API development