IBM API Connect
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API Lifecycle Management - Seamlessly develop, manage, secure and socialize all your API types, wherever they live
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Features
20 features across 13 categories
AI Automation(2)
AI-powered assistant that automates key tasks across the API lifecycle, handles repetitive work, provides expert guidance, shortens development cycles and reduces errors
Powered by watsonx.ai and using gen AI, enhances speed and precision by automating tasks and focusing teams on higher-value work and innovation
AI Management(1)
Central point of control for accessing public and third-party AI APIs, enforces policies and provides analytics to optimize LLM usage
Analytics(2)
Offload analytics data to external systems for correlation and data retention
Use dashboards and visualization to understand and assess API usage
Deployment(1)
Deploy in a hybrid or multicloud environment with flexibility to run on premises, in the cloud, or across multiple clouds
Developer Experience(1)
Integrated web-based platform where developers and API consumers can discover, explore, socialize and subscribe to APIs with customizable company-branded portals
Development(4)
Intuitive experience to rapidly design and build APIs with support for REST, AsyncAPI, WebSockets, GraphQL, and SOAP
Comprehensive set of developer tools to create or import API definitions, secure them and test them locally before publication
Iterate faster on APIs and application development with command-line interface, built-in testing and reporting with enterprise-level security
AI-powered workspace that unites authoring, testing, and governance, all managed as code for accelerating innovation across distributed teams
Gateway(3)
Enterprise gateway designed to securely expose data and business applications wherever they reside, on premises and across clouds
Ultra-light, zero-trust API gateway that runs close to business applications with declarative policy control and sub-second startup at the API product level
Ability to add self-hosted API Gateways for greater control and customization
Lifecycle Management(1)
Manage and move APIs throughout their entire lifecycle with versioning and full control over visibility
Management(1)
User interface providing capabilities for governance, versioning and full control over visibility across consumers, whether internal or external
Monetization(1)
Monetize your APIs with pricing and rate plans
Quality(1)
AI that helps you remediate errors to raise the bar on performance
Security(1)
Security and governance features to safeguard APIs, data and applications with an uncompromising API security strategy
Testing(1)
Generate, run and report on test cases automatically with AI-assisted iterative testing, automatic validation, integrated continuous testing and quality insights
Pricing
Pay-As-You-Go
- ✓Usage-based pricing on AWS
- ✓No upfront costs
- ✓Pay only for what you consume
- ✓Cancel at any time
Standard tier (SaaS)
- ✓API design and development
- ✓API testing
- ✓API Lifecycle management
- ✓Multi-tenant architecture
- ✓Developer portals
- ✓API analytics
- ✓1-3 instances per subscription
- ✓99.9% SLA
- ✓Automatic updates and security fixes
- ✓30-day trial available
Reserved instance (SaaS)
- ✓Single-tenant service
- ✓Greater isolation and availability requirements
- ✓Hosted on IBM Cloud
- ✓API design and development
- ✓API testing
- ✓API Lifecycle management
- ✓Self-hosted API Gateways
- ✓Developer portals
- ✓API analytics
- ✓Analytics offload
- ✓Monetization
- ✓Hybrid/multicloud deployment
- ✓1 instance per subscription
- ✓99.95% SLA option
- ✓Automatic updates and security fixes
Software (with IBM Software Subscription & Support)
- ✓Deploy on premises
- ✓Hybrid cloud deployment
- ✓Multi-cloud environment
- ✓Full API lifecycle management
- ✓Self-hosted API Gateways
- ✓Developer portals
- ✓API analytics
- ✓Analytics offload
- ✓Monetization
- ✓Hybrid/multicloud deployment
- ✓Unlimited instances
- ✓User-initiated updates
- ✓Renewed annually
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Integrations
4 known integrations