Api reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 140 Reddit reviews across 37 subreddits and 43 posts to rank the best Api brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/webdev, r/hetzner, r/algotrading, r/AskProgramming, r/RealEstateTechnology. Top-rated brands include Stripe (4.9/5), APIDog (4.8/5), Brevo (3.8/5).
Stats
Reviews140
Subreddits37
Posts43
Brands90
Products36
140 reviews from
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By Brand
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#1
Stripe
4.9
(16)
"Came here to say stripe best"
"**Best**: Stripe"
"Stripe. Their setup CAN be very complex but they have managed to make it dead simple."
"Best one is Stripe API, the documentation is hands down amazing."
"The payment processor APIs are a good range of examples. In terms of quality it goes (approximately) Stripe > Braintree > Adyen > PayPal."
"Best is Stripe's for sure."
"Love Stripe API."
"I love the stripe API."
"Best: Stripe
worst: anything Google"
"Worst: Google
Best: Stripe"
#2
APIDog
4.8
(4)
"**Apidog**: A fantastic free tool for designing and testing APIs!"
"It is a valuable tool for students to learn and master the knowledge of testing. Also, it is a code-less tool."
"The interface is super clean and beginner-friendly, with tooltips everywhere to guide you."
"Solid choice for API testing."
#3
Brevo
3.8
(4)
"Brevo is the way, especially for spammy emails, but SendinBlue was about half the price lol"
"For the same price point, I get 5x the amount of emails from Brevo."
"I’m using Brevo in a FlutterFlow app and it works fine."
"There's also Brevo, which is good, but I see it more for marketing and I think it's from the US."
#4
Alpaca
4.7
(3)
"Alpaca websocket streams work very well for me."
"Alpaca is the best of those (for me)."
"Their websocket live stream is great once you optimize your process."
#5
Shoonya
4.7
(3)
"It's a great choice for anyone looking to engage in algorithmic trading without the added costs."
"It's designed for beginners and professionals alike, offering fast and reliable execution."
"It's been reliable for my trading needs, especially with execution."
#6
OpenRouter
4.0
(3)
"Openrouter is the only way to access Deepseek right now."
"Openrouter has seemed fair to me. using alot of r1 and 15-20 bucks goes a long long way."
"It has some free models."
#7
Postmark
4.0
(3)
"If it’s for transactional emails (I.e., not marketing), I highly suggest Postmark. Amazing delivery and speed."
"If we're talking transactional emails, Postmark has been good to us: https://postmarkapp.com/"
"PostMark is now owned by ActiveCampaign which is a US company."
#8
ElevenLabs
4.0
(3)
"Eleven labs, just saw their prompt to style a voice demo today. Seems very promising."
"11labs is my favorite, but the cost is too high so I don't use it anymore."
"Probably Elevenlabs/Cartesia. Heard F5 was good."
#9
AWS
4.0
(3)
"If you're talking about reliability I'd go Fargate. If you're looking for best price, for this use case, go with Lambda."
"Useful for orchestrating workflows."
"Great for serverless applications."
#10
RentCast
5.0
(2)
"We provide nationwide property and rental data in the US at a fraction of the cost, as compared to other providers."
"Excellent documentation and developer-friendly account."
#11
Python
5.0
(2)
"Find the hidden API. Use Selenium only if you absolutely have to. This is about 100–100000 times more efficient and less error prone."
"Excellent for web scraping tasks."
#12
Gemini
4.5
(2)
"Is better than both of these models at image analysis, and free using api."
"Is really good at this."
#13
Polygon
4.5
(2)
"I've been happy with polygon.io."
"Polygon, Databento, Alpaca."
#14
Cloudflare
4.5
(2)
"Cloudflare is about the cheapest out there"
"Porkbun and Cloudflare have pretty usable APIs and offer reasonable prices."
#15
Resend
4.0
(2)
"Resend is excellent [but they’re likely an AWS SES wrapper]."
"I heard good things about https://resend.com/"
#16
Polygon.io
4.0
(2)
"You might want to check out Alpha Vantage or Polygon.io."
"I use polygon.io check them"
#17
Zepto
4.0
(2)
"Zepto is pay-as you go, works very well."
"ZeptoMail is cheap and I think it has a good billing model."
#18
Yahoo Finance
4.0
(2)
"Use yfinance and this website has a ton of databases probably has something similar to what you are looking for."
"For current stock data, check out `yfinance`."
#19
Deepseek
4.0
(2)
"It's good, it is completely uncensored so you will never get declined."
"Just got banned from OpenAI and switched to deepseek recently, it's so much better."
#20
Finnhub
4.0
(2)
"Finnhub is good"
"Have you tried finnhub.io? I don't use it for algorithmic trading; I use their quotes for other hobby projects."
#21
BatchData
4.0
(2)
"BatchData has an AVM you can use on a pay as you go basis."
"BatchData.com has the API you need for house values."
#22
Mailjet
3.5
(2)
"I migrated from Sendgrid. I went through different providers for sending transactional emails and settled down with Mailjet."
"Mailjet is owned by Sinch which now also owns Mailgun."
#23
OpenAI
3.5
(2)
"If for production just use openai api"
"I also found OpenAI Audio API to be able to express emotions but its very expensive."
#24
Interactive Brokers
3.0
(2)
"These guys had the lowest fees I could get."
"IB has serious issues for futures on days when prices went negative."
#25
SendGrid
3.0
(2)
"I send 350k mails a month using Sendgrid which has been solid!"
"SendGrid is owned by Twilio which is a US company (San Francisco). I'll pass."
#26
Elastic Email
3.0
(2)
"We moved from SMTP.com to Elastic because it was considerably less expensive."
"Unfortunately Elastic is overwhelmingly used by spammers now, making their legitimate customers a very small minority."
#27
OrderDesk
5.0
(1)
"Look at OrderDesk, which can be driven via API and has connectors for lots of POD shops."
#28
RupeeVest
5.0
(1)
"I use rupeevest.com for MF portfolio analysis."
#29
Kuvera
5.0
(1)
"U can try Kuvera,"
#30
CMOTS, Accord fintech
5.0
(1)
"CMOTS, Accord fintech provide these data with api"
#31
Nasdaq TotalView
5.0
(1)
"It provides L3 order by order data, which lets you backtest accurately."
#32
Databento
5.0
(1)
"Is the best data provider that I’ve seen or worked with."
#33
Twelve Data
5.0
(1)
"But Twelve Data works best for me!"
#34
Fastify
5.0
(1)
"I am biased towards frameworks that integrate well with OpenAPI/Swagger * JS/TS: Fastify"
#35
FastAPI
5.0
(1)
"* Python: FastAPI"
#36
Yaak.app
5.0
(1)
"Yesterday discovered yaak.app, and it is awesome."
#37
Zuplo
5.0
(1)
"I'd recommend Zuplo - it's a newish gateway I've been using and I love it."
#38
Roblox
5.0
(1)
"Best by far was actually the Roblox API believe it or not, brief overview of each class at the top, properties, events, functions, etc all well documented in tables, and finally LOTS of code examples, and very useful ones at that."
#39
Bright Data
5.0
(1)
"Bright data has the best API for data scraping if you want a fully integrated solution."
#40
Groq
5.0
(1)
"Try Groq it's free, you can use newest llama 3.2 models"
#41
Homekynd
5.0
(1)
"I highly recommend Homekynd."
#42
SignatureAPI
5.0
(1)
"It's the most affordable electronic signature API at just $0.10 per envelope."
#43
LibreChat
5.0
(1)
"LibreChat is a powerful BYOK app that offers a great experience."
#44
WordPress
5.0
(1)
"WordPress is free, open source software that anyone can download."
#45
Name.com
4.0
(1)
"Offers flexible billing options, allowing you to pay for domains at the end of the month."
#46
laboro.co
4.0
(1)
"Tap laboro.co’s API to buy domains, set up DNS, and pick flexible end-of-month billing in one unified process."
#47
Porkbun
4.0
(1)
"Porkbun and Cloudflare have pretty usable APIs and offer reasonable prices."
#48
OpenSRS
4.0
(1)
"Theres https://opensrs.com/integrations/api/ and https://www.hexonet.net and few other registrar like namesilo that also allow reselling"
#49
Hexonet
4.0
(1)
"Theres https://opensrs.com/integrations/api/ and https://www.hexonet.net and few other registrar like namesilo that also allow reselling"
#50
NameSilo
4.0
(1)
"Theres https://opensrs.com/integrations/api/ and https://www.hexonet.net and few other registrar like namesilo that also allow reselling"
#51
Mistrall
4.0
(1)
"Mistrall Small is solid for function calling and runs well on 48GB with vLLM support."
#52
GitHub Copilot
4.0
(1)
"Github copilot is a flat monthly and includes unlimited access to models including claude 3.5."
#53
Gemini Flash 2.0
4.0
(1)
"Gemini flash 2.0 gives me results that rival claude."
#54
Finvasia
4.0
(1)
"Api is quite straightforward to integrate."
#55
FinerWorks
4.0
(1)
"The documentation is good and it is pretty straightforward."
#56
Runpod
4.0
(1)
"Runpod and vast ai is good."
#57
Fal.ai
4.0
(1)
"Fal.ai is good for API use"
#58
MFAPI
4.0
(1)
"There is one for NAV data - https://www.mfapi.in/"
#59
Rithmic
4.0
(1)
"These guys had the lowest fees I could get."
#60
4.0
(1)
"I'm using WhatsApp cloud API for WhatsApp and Fast2SMS for sms both are pay as u go."
#61
Fast2SMS
4.0
(1)
"I'm using WhatsApp cloud API for WhatsApp and Fast2SMS for sms both are pay as u go."
#62
Odds API
4.0
(1)
"The Odds API"
#63
Keepa API
4.0
(1)
"Keepa's docs are accessible.."
#64
Amadeus
4.0
(1)
"Try Amadeus for Developers"
#65
Huma
4.0
(1)
"* Go: Huma ([https://huma.rocks/](https://huma.rocks/))"
#66
Stoplight
4.0
(1)
"* Stoplight ([https://stoplight.io/](https://stoplight.io/))"
#67
CoinGecko
4.0
(1)
"I recommend making your own API related to the coingecko API."
#68
Alpha Vantage
4.0
(1)
"You might want to check out Alpha Vantage or Polygon.io."
#69
Covalent
4.0
(1)
"You can try Covalent: https://www.covalenthq.com or Node Real https://nodereal.io."
#70
Postman
4.0
(1)
"[Postman](https://www.postman.com/)"
#71
MuleSoft
4.0
(1)
"**MuleSoft**: A powerhouse for connecting systems!"
#72
Monday
4.0
(1)
"I’ve found the Monday API easy to implement and flexible"
#73
Pinata
4.0
(1)
"We’re doing exactly this and using piñata service fronted with Cloudflare."
#74
Filebase
4.0
(1)
"Have you ever used S3 before? Then you've used Filebase."
#75
Upstox
4.0
(1)
"Upstox API."
#76
Proxycurl
4.0
(1)
"You should try Proxycurl, it allows you to retrieve data from LinkedIn and other platforms."
#77
Broker APIs
4.0
(1)
"Best option for real-time data is broker apis."
#78
GPT-4
4.0
(1)
"GPT-4o-mini is also super cheap"
#79
Maxio
4.0
(1)
"I recently came across Maxio's dev documentation and it's pretty neat."
#80
CoreLogic
4.0
(1)
"Core logic sells a valuation data product."
#81
RoOomy
4.0
(1)
"For high-quality yet affordable AI virtual staging APIs, you may want to try RoOomy or Matterport."
#82
Matterport
4.0
(1)
"For high-quality yet affordable AI virtual staging APIs, you may want to try RoOomy or Matterport."
#83
Claude.ai
4.0
(1)
"Claude.ai can do this easily, I don't work there or have any affiliation."
#84
Zoho
4.0
(1)
"Zoho Sign is great for its flexibility, automation features, and robust API, making it easy to manage documents and signatures at scale."
#85
Microsoft
4.0
(1)
"The Bing Search API has a news endpoint and is pretty good/cheap."
#86
eSignatures.io
4.0
(1)
"ESignatures.io is more lightweight, offering affordable pricing and simplicity, ideal for smaller projects."
#87
Duffel
3.0
(1)
"Not free but PAYG and sandbox as well"
#88
SerpApi
3.0
(1)
"Serpapi had a Google flights connect that seems promising."
#89
nftpricefloor
3.0
(1)
"You can use nftpricefloor api maybe?"
#90
Steam
2.0
(1)
"Worst API I used recently is the Steam Web API - makes you download the Steam app just to get an API key !"
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