RapidAPI Review - I tried the API marketplace so you don't have to

RapidAPI claims to be the largest API marketplace.

The idea of an API marketplace is extremely attractive for many developers: Use functionality or data without building it yourself by calling a public API; Or earn passive income by offering data or services that you implemented without building the user interface and selling to the end user yourself.

I published a simple API on RapidAPI to see how the technology, process and experience works; On the other hand, I checked out the marketplace for interesting APIs to include in my apps.

[skipperSwede]

I really appreciate this review, with it's critical and constructive feedback. The issue of reaching viable consumers, and also "health-checking" the API's that are listed appears to be missing. I will try this out at any rate w. a simple-feature API, then see if my findings are similar to yours. Thank you so much!

[JoeSmith-knwo]

Thanks for the review. I was going to use this for a tutorial but doesn't look like their quality is up to par. Thank you for saving me time!

[SirMo]

Thank you for the review! We API devs really need a service like RapidAPI to succeed. RapidAPI is a good idea, too bad the execution is not there. Hopefully it improves. I'm about to use them as a consumer, so hopefully it works out.

[udvqnre]

So strange, they developed the whole complexe product and forgot to automate quality checks. Isn't API quality the easiest thing to do.

[toastybowl]

This makes sense to me.

Unsure whether I missed it or it went unstated - are there alternatives in the " API marketplace " category that you have some experience with, or might recommend instead ?

It's an attractive idea for someone wanting to focus on API development.

[vasilevictordurlesteanu]

Thank you for the content. Really helpful!

[Dansbabydreams]

Great video! I am looking for Price Comparison API for my project and recommendations?

[udvqnre]

The only public one that I found, my API is sadly drowned amoung crap APIs.

[sebastianrtj]

!00% agree with you on the wrong KPIs that they're tracking

[revulation]

any suggestion for better api marketplace?

[vitaliivostotskyi]

I don't see any reason to share 20 % of profit with service, that even not able to properly rank or organize existing APIs. I also tried to research for "popular" API profitability, but for some reason no information is publicly available. It is hard to plan some business model with such a black box, and it sounds more reasonable to get your own service which will issue keys, handle payments and billing, cache queries and troubleshoot issues.

[shutianwang]

rapidapi is ok for api users, but just ok not good, really bad for providers

[riyansh]

its worst for developers. My payout is pending from last November

[jonathanhirschbaum]

calling RapidAPI "marketplace for API" is a calling VisualStudio Code "marketplace for plugins". I dont think Sir you understand what RapidAPI is at all. It used to be called PAW and is a Postman of sorts