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Open source API management and rate limiting solutions

Yaniv January 10, 2014 6 Comments

API management solution provides a front end between the API users and the service. It allows the service provide to control who access the service, protect the availability of the service by setting usage limits such as request rate limiting per user and lastly most of the solutions provide usage statistics.

Below is a list of open source API management solutions:

API Umbrella

https://github.com/NREL/api-umbrella

The proxy is implemented via node.js using Redis as the key-value store.

API Grove

http://apigrove.net/

License: Apache 2.0

Written by Alcatel-Lucent and released as open source.

API Axle

http://www.apiaxle.com/

Gravitee

https://gravitee.io/

License: Apache 2.0

Kong

https://getkong.org/

Tyk.IO

Repose

http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/rate-limiting-with-repose-the-restful-proxy-service-engine.html

Written by Rackspace. Based on Java.

Build rate limiting around Redis

https://chris6f.com/rate-limiting-with-redis

Redis is an in-memory key-value store server, written in C.

The linked page describes how to use Redis for rate limiting across multiple proxies or API nodes.

6 thoughts on “Open source API management and rate limiting solutions”

dvska July 25, 2014 at 08:54

Fix: Repose is based on Java stack, not Note.js

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1. Yaniv Post authorJuly 25, 2014 at 10:16
  
  Thanks DVSKA for spotting this mistake. Updated the article with the correct information.
Wandered October 11, 2014 at 13:57

Some more free API management solutions:

http://apiaxle.com/
http://tyk.io/

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1. Yaniv Post authorOctober 12, 2014 at 01:44
  
  Hi Wandered,
  
  Thanks for pointing out these API management solutions! I have added them to the post.
Azize September 20, 2016 at 09:41

One more OSS API management solution : https://gravitee.io/

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1. Yaniv Post authorNovember 8, 2016 at 15:08
  
  Thanks Azize,
  Adding Gravitee to the post,
  
  Yaniv

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