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Top 50 API Management Tools Companies (August 2026)

As of August 2026, Latka tracks 357 API management tools companies. They have combined revenues of $3.1B and employ 23.6K people. They have raised $5.1B and serve 80.7M customers combined.

Every company below sells API management tools to other businesses and is ranked by its most recent annual revenue. Revenue, funding, headcount and customer figures come from CEO interviews on the Latka podcast, public company filings, and Latka estimates where a company has not disclosed a number.

Companies
357
Revenue
$3.1B
Funding
$5.1B
Employees
23.6K

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Top API Management Tools Companies by revenue

Showing 10 of 357 companies ranked by annual revenue.

1Backbase logo
Backbase

Amsterdam, Netherlands

a banking software designed to empower financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation

Revenue
$200M
Customers
150
Year founded
2003
Funding
$128M
Team size
2.1K
2Kong Inc logo
Kong Inc

San Francisco, California, United States

Cloud-native API Gateway and API Middleware

Revenue
$146.1M
Customers
130
Year founded
2009
Funding
$344.3M
Team size
879
3Lucid Software logo
Lucid Software

South Jordan, Utah, United States

Lucid Software is the leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration, helping teams see and build the future by turning ideas into reality. Its products include the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite (Lucidchart and Lucidspark) and airfocus. The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, combined with powerful accelerators for business agility, cloud, and process transformation, empowers organizations to streamline work, foster alignment, and drive business transformation at scale. airfocus, an AI-powered product management and roadmapping platform, extends these capabilities by helping teams prioritize work, define product strategy, and align execution with business goals. The most used work acceleration platform by the Fortune 500, Lucid’s solutions are trusted by more than 100 million users across enterprises worldwide, including Google, GE, and NBC Universal. Lucid partners with leaders such as Google, Atlassian, and Microsoft, and has received numerous awards for its products, growth, and workplace culture. The company holds true to its core values, including teamwork over ego, innovation in everything we do, individual empowerment, initiative, ownership, and passion and excellence in every area. Learn more at lucid.co.

Revenue
$144.7M
Year founded
2010
Funding
$500M
Team size
1.3K
4WSO2 logo
WSO2

Mountain View, California, United States

WSO2 Inc. is an open-source technology provider based in California, United States, with offices around the world. WSO2 offers an API management platform and an enterprise service bus (ESB) that enable businesses to integrate and manage their applications, data, and services. The company's products are built on open-source technology and designed to support the development and deployment of cloud-native applications. WSO2's platform includes features such as API management, identity and access management, analytics, and integration with other software applications.

Revenue
$128.8M
Customers
300
Year founded
2005
Funding
$133.5M
Team size
1.1K
5Algolia logo
Algolia

San Francisco, California, United States

Algolia is owned by Algolia Inc., a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. Algolia is a search-as-a-service platform that enables developers to build fast, relevant, and intuitive search experiences for their websites and applications. The company was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine and has since grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide, including big names like Twitch, Stripe, and Under Armour. Algolia's mission is to make every search interaction meaningful and rewarding for users, and to help businesses improve engagement and conversion rates through better search experiences.

Revenue
$100M
Customers
17K
Year founded
2012
Funding
$334.2M
Team size
899
Growth
33.33%
6Solace logo
Solace

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Solace Corporation is a technology company based in Ontario, Canada. Solace provides a messaging platform that helps businesses to distribute real-time data and information across their IT infrastructure. Their platform offers features such as event streaming, message routing, and API management, enabling businesses to deliver data in real-time to various applications and devices. Solace's platform is used by companies in various industries such as financial services, telecommunications, and transportation. The company was founded in 2001 and has since become a leading provider of event-driven architectures and messaging solutions.

Revenue
$100M
Year founded
2001
Funding
$7M
Team size
629
7Mapbox logo
Mapbox

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

Revenue
$93M
Year founded
2011
Funding
$573.6M
Team size
845
8Plivo logo
Plivo

Austin, Texas, United States

Customer engagement platform

Revenue
$86.6M
Customers
70K
Year founded
2011
Funding
$2.1M
Team size
247
9Storyblok logo
Storyblok

Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

headless CMS for developers

Revenue
$80M
Customers
50K
Year founded
2017
Funding
$138M
Team size
252
10Nylas logo
Nylas

San Francisco, California, United States

Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email and calendar.

Revenue
$75M
Customers
450
Year founded
2013
Funding
$145M
Team size
142

Frequently asked questions about API Management Tools Companies

How many API management tools companies are there?

Latka tracks 357 API management tools companies with reported revenue. Together they generate $3.1B in annual revenue and employ 23.6K people.

Which API management tools company is the largest?

Backbase is the largest, with $200M in annual revenue, founded in 2003.

How much revenue does a typical API management tools company make?

The average API management tools company in this list makes $8.8M a year, across 357 companies with reported revenue. They serve 80.7M customers combined.

Who are the leading API Management tools vendors?

Ranked by annual revenue, the leaders are Backbase, Kong Inc, Lucid Software, WSO2 and Algolia.

How much funding have API management tools companies raised?

The 357 API management tools companies tracked here have raised $5.1B in disclosed funding between them.

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