Best API Monetization Platforms

Compare the Top API Monetization Platforms as of December 2025

What are API Monetization Platforms?

API monetization platforms provide companies an easy way to manage the process of turning their APIs into revenue-producing services. These platforms enable companies to securely manage API pricing, usage and governance policies as well as generate reports and insights into customer usage. Additionally, they can help track and enforce API access with per user or IP based authentication to use or resell partner services or data. Finally, they offer an efficient mechanism for billing customers with a variety of payment options such as subscription or pay-per-use models. As such, API monetization platforms fill a critical gap in the market helping companies leverage APIs to drive revenues without significant overhead costs. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Monetization platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Tyk

    Tyk

    Tyk Technologies

    Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations. By making our capabilities easily accessible to developers, we make it fast, simple and low-risk for big enterprises to manage their APIs, adopt microservices and adopt GraphQL. Whether self-managed, cloud or a hybrid, our unique architecture and capabilities enable large, complex, global organisations to quickly deliver highly secure, highly regulated API-first applications and products that span multiple clouds and geographies.
    Starting Price: $600/month
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    Apify

    Apify

    Apify Technologies s.r.o.

    Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform helping anyone get value from the web. At its core is Apify Store, a marketplace with over 10,000 Actors where developers build, publish, and monetize automation tools. Actors are serverless cloud programs that extract data, automate web tasks, and run AI agents. Developers build them using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee, Apify's open-source library. Build once, publish to Store, and earn when others use it. Thousands of developers do this - Apify handles infrastructure, billing, and monthly payouts. Apify Store has ready-made Actors for scraping Amazon, Google Maps, social media, tracking prices, lead-gen, and more. Actors handle proxies, CAPTCHAs, JavaScript rendering, headless browsers, and scaling. Everything runs on Apify's cloud with 99.95% uptime. SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Integrate with Zapier, Make, n8n, and LangChain. Apify's MCP server lets AI like Claude dynamically discover and use Actors
    Starting Price: $39 per month
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