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Free Development APIs

Tooling for developers: source control, hosting, utilities and automation.

325 listed · 121 need no key · 93 work in the browser

Abacus

Development

Free and simple counting service. You can use it to track page hits and specific events

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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API Status Check

Development

Real-time status monitoring for 270+ APIs and services

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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APIzone

Development

Independent uptime & status monitoring for 200+ popular APIs

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Aquanode

Development

Live GPU rental prices and availability across nine cloud providers

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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CDNJS

Development

Library info on CDNJS

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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ChartBytes

Development

Chart image API: turn a URL into a PNG or SVG chart (bar, line, area, scatter, pie, donut, stacked)

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Corsfix

Development

CORS Proxy by Corsfix lets you instantly fetch any resource on the web and bypass CORS errors

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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CountAPI

Development

Free and simple counting service. You can use it to track page hits and specific events

No keyCORSHTTPS

Checked today: not responding

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crates.io

Development

Rust crate versions, downloads and dependency metadata

No keyCORSHTTPS

Checked today: not responding

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Fair Draw

Development

Verifiable random draws bound to the drand public randomness beacon

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Genderize.io

Development

A simple API that predicts the gender of a person based on a first name

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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GithubTrends

Development

GitHub Trending repositories with star history and open-source alternatives to paid tools

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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HostDealRadar

Development

Source-backed hosting price and provider record lookup

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Httpbin

Development

A Simple HTTP Request & Response Service

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Image-Charts

Development

Generate charts, QR codes and graph images

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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JMESPath Free API

Development

The JMESPath free API provides a serverless endpoint for running JSON transformations using the JMESPath query language. It enables users to quickly filter, reshape, and extract data from JSON without the need for deploying any infrastructure. This API is ideal for prototyping and low-volume automation tasks.

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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JSONPlaceholder

Development

Free fake and reliable API for testing and prototyping. Serving ~3 billion requests each month.

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Keyvalue

Development

Simple key-value storage REST API for quick prototyping

No keyCORSHTTPS

Verified today: 100% uptime

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Mocky

Development

Mock user defined test JSON for REST API endpoints

No keyCORSHTTPS

Checked today: not responding

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All 325 Development APIs

Free Development APIs — common questions

Counts and timings below come from our own scheduled checks of this category.

How many free development APIs are there?

We track 325 in this category, of which 276 responded at our last check. 121 of them need no API key.

Which development APIs work without an API key?

121 of the 325 entries here need no credential. Filter this page by "no key" to see them, or browse the no-key collection for every keyless API across all categories.

Can I use these development APIs in a browser app?

47 entries in this category need no key and return CORS headers, which is the combination that lets you call them straight from client-side JavaScript. The rest need a server or a proxy in between.

Which is the fastest free development API?

Of the keyless options that responded at our last check, Open VSX was quickest at a median 272 ms. Speed is only one factor — coverage and licensing usually matter more — but it is measured here rather than claimed.

How do you know these APIs still work?

We call every listing on a schedule and record the status code, response time and whether CORS headers came back. Those results drive the badges on this page. Across the whole catalogue, 361 of 3,005 entries were not responding at the last full run, which is the sort of thing an unchecked list never tells you.