Our Story
APIForge was built to give developers the visibility and control they need over their APIs - without the tool sprawl.
In 2021, Ryan Kowalski left his role as Head of Developer Experience at HashiCorp with one specific problem in mind. After years of watching engineering teams - including his own - he'd noticed a pattern: developers were spending close to 40% of their working time not building, but debugging API integrations.
The tools existed - curl, Postman, some custom scripts, maybe a Grafana dashboard if you were lucky - but they didn't talk to each other. Test results lived in one place. Monitoring lived in another. Documentation was always out of date. And CI integration was a weekend project someone had to maintain.
Ryan spent six months talking to 200 developers across 80 companies before writing a single line of code. The answer was always the same: we need one tool that handles the full lifecycle, not six tools that sort of interoperate.
APIForge shipped its first version in late 2021. By 2023, more than 5,000 teams were using it in production. Today, those teams collectively test over 50 million API endpoints per month through the platform.
Developers using APIForge
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Founded in Austin, TX
Platform uptime this year
What we believe
If a developer can't figure out how to use your tool in 10 minutes, the tool is broken - regardless of what it does under the hood. We obsess over DX the same way others obsess over performance benchmarks.
Your test collections belong to you. Export them anytime in standard formats. We'd rather earn your business every month than trap you in a contract.
APIForge is a testing and monitoring platform. We're not trying to be a service mesh, a gateway, or an API marketplace. We do one thing and we do it properly.
Read about the team behind APIForge, or get in touch if you have questions.