Learn how to price your API to attract developers more effectively. Features original benchmark data from an analysis of 1,800 public paid APIs from RapidAPI's API marketplace.
APIs and data have not only become a competitive advantage for enterprises but also an innovation tool and source of revenue. Finding the right monetization program is crucial to help you deliver the right business model for your digital assets.
In our deep-dive webcast, we explore how you can:
- think about your APIs as a strategic revenue opportunity
- strengthen and manage your partnerships
- build and energize your developer ecosystem with creative pricing
- how Apigee Monetization Services changes the game
Listen to the podcast version here: http://bit.ly/1Mq6DGF
Hear from the product team about Apigee's key products and technology. Learn how customers use Apigee to grow reach with mobile apps, accelerate development and create new products through APIs, and gain end-to-end visibility into business and operations by analyzing 360 degrees of information.
APIs and data have not only become a competitive advantage for enterprises but also an innovation tool and source of revenue. Finding the right monetization program is crucial to help you deliver the right business model for your digital assets.
In our deep-dive webcast, we explore how you can:
- think about your APIs as a strategic revenue opportunity
- strengthen and manage your partnerships
- build and energize your developer ecosystem with creative pricing
- how Apigee Monetization Services changes the game
Listen to the podcast version here: http://bit.ly/1Mq6DGF
Hear from the product team about Apigee's key products and technology. Learn how customers use Apigee to grow reach with mobile apps, accelerate development and create new products through APIs, and gain end-to-end visibility into business and operations by analyzing 360 degrees of information.
Watch the live demo of Apigee's API platform to learn how to:
- easily configure and manage new APIs and enforce security with minimal impact to backend services
- create, manage and monetize API products
- extend API Services to increase flexibility and tailor to business requirements with JavaScript, Java, Python, and Node.js
- provide developers easy, yet secure access to explore, test, and deploy APIs
- use end-to-end visibility across the digital value chain to monitor, measure, and manage success
What do you mean by “API as a Product”?Nordic APIs
You may have heard the term “API Product.” But what does it mean? In this talk I will introduce the concept and explain the benefits and challenges of transforming your organization to view your APIs as measurable products that expose your companies capabilities creating agility, autonomy, and acceleration. Traditional product manufacturers create new product and launch them into the marketplace and then measure value; we will teach you to view your APIs in the same way. Concepts covered in this presentation will be designing APIs with Design Thinking, funding your product, building teams, marketing your API, managing your marketplace, and measuring success.
API as-a-Product with Azure API Management (APIM)Bishoy Demian
Transitions from a single App or a closed system to an open ecosystem that drives innovation and delivers value-add Apps and services for your end-users. Monetise your data with minimal hassle & cost. Reach your end-users on any platform. Enable your IoT strategy with a strong cloud-based API platform.
Using Azure API Management, you can build a modern interactive developer portal for your APIs. Learn about your API usage patterns with analytics. Secure access, and manage subscriptions with quotas and throttling.
APIs used to be a technical implementation detail reserved for developers and architects. In the Web age, APIs make more business sense than ever before. This presentation gives a ring side view of How to Craft Business Strategy around APIs.
API monetization extends beyond the simple selling of an API to realize new revenue streams. Monetization enables multi-pronged business relationships, for example, a SaaS provider, an industry focused ISV and a SaaS customer. Learn more about how Oracle is helping customers in the Hospitality industry realize the true value of APIs. In this talk, we will also cover some future capabilities that will help enterprises monetize their APIs for both revenue streams, and insights into the value all their APIs provide
What's a good API business model? If you have an API, or you plan to have an open API, or just want to use APIs in your web or mobile app, what models make sense? See 20 different API business models. This comprehensive survey of the gamut of today's options covering anything from paid to getting paid to indirect.
With special guests Ron Ratovsky and Darrel Miller from the OpenAPI Initiative's Technical Steering Committee, this SmartBear webinar session covered the history of Swagger and the OpenAPI Specification, and all the latest changes in OAS 3.1.
Are your APIs becoming too complicated and ad hoc? Feeling the need to set up policies for your API? This presentation will give you strategy options for designing and developing your APIs.
Apidays Paris 2023 - 7 Mistakes When Putting In Place An API Program, Francoi...apidays
Apidays Paris 2023 - Software and APIs for Smart, Sustainable and Sovereign Societies
December 6, 7 & 8, 2023
7 Mistakes When Putting In Place An API Program
Francois Lasne, Senior API Manager at Murex
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Check out our conferences at https://www.apidays.global/
Do you want to sponsor or talk at one of our conferences?
https://apidays.typeform.com/to/ILJeAaV8
Learn more on APIscene, the global media made by the community for the community:
https://www.apiscene.io
Explore the API ecosystem with the API Landscape:
https://apilandscape.apiscene.io/
My presentation from Nordic APIs 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.
How can the architecture of one API platform look like? How can you break down things to make this challenge easier?
Apigee's Ed Anuff and Bala Kasiviswanathan will discuss how these forces inform and drive the Apigee product roadmap. Join Ed and Bala for a preview of how Apigee will deliver on its product goals, including a common stack that enables us to address our customers' multi-cloud opportunity. Learn how we'll help companies transition to the PaaS/cloud-native future, how we'll leverage Google's OSS presence, and how we will continue to emphasize the needs of developers.
APIdays Open Banking & Fintech: Workshop - Financial Services Use Cases for APIsJeremy Brown
This was a fairly high level presentation I did at the APIdays Open Banking and Fintech event in London where I started to explore the main drivers for APIs, the mega trends in consumer banking and the various use cases for APIs within Financial Services.
Do you want to scale your API program? Do you want to create new business opportunities with developers and partners? If so, monetization might be the right strategy for you.
Monetization is influencing how APIs are delivered. It provides the flexibility to generate different API consumption models for developers, and it opens opportunities to derive value from APIs, for developers and for partners.
Learn about:
- Monetization trends and best practices
- The industries that leverage API monetization today
- The future of monetization
API management solutions help enterprises manage, secure, and mediate API traffic, ensure that developers and partners are productive, and grow their API programs to meet the increasing demands of a digital world. APIU management capabilities including Backend as a Service (BaaS) solutions, analytics engines, and monetization enable developers to develop and extend apps with modern features, provide deep insights into the APIs, and allow API providers to monetize their APIs and developers to share in the revenue.
The report maps current developments in open banking and its state of adoption from around the world. It includes use cases, regulatory and industry drivers, regulations and technical standards, use cases, technical reference architecture, adoption levels by financial institutions and consumers, and advise on how to turn this change into an opportunity.
Webinar: Practical use-cases to monetize Open Banking APIsShubaS4
In this webinar, Thomas Zink – IDC research director for European financial services talked about the revenue potential of API enabled use-cases and how to overcome barriers to adoption. Karthik TS – Head, CoE, Torry Harris detailed the best practices to productize APIs, effective API management and marketplace-banking solutions.
Whitebox Testing for Blackbox Testers: Simplifying API TestingQASymphony
Today, development organizations are relying increasingly more on APIs to extend the value proposition of their product in order to monetize digital assets. In this session, you will discover not only how and why APIs serve as the arteries of online business, but how to best manage and test these essential assets that serve as the foundation upon which businesses are built.
DJ Frank will cover:
Learning the significance of APIs and how they have transformed online business through real-world examples.
Assimilating the idea that API testing is for everyone! Not just your software, code writing, engineers.
Visualizing the application and impacts of whitebox testing strategies for APIs.
Sachin Agarwal, SOA Software VP of Product Marketing, explains the frenzy around the mass development and adoption of APIs. In this presentation, he describes the business and technology implications of developing an API stratgy.
Watch the live demo of Apigee's API platform to learn how to:
- easily configure and manage new APIs and enforce security with minimal impact to backend services
- create, manage and monetize API products
- extend API Services to increase flexibility and tailor to business requirements with JavaScript, Java, Python, and Node.js
- provide developers easy, yet secure access to explore, test, and deploy APIs
- use end-to-end visibility across the digital value chain to monitor, measure, and manage success
What do you mean by “API as a Product”?Nordic APIs
You may have heard the term “API Product.” But what does it mean? In this talk I will introduce the concept and explain the benefits and challenges of transforming your organization to view your APIs as measurable products that expose your companies capabilities creating agility, autonomy, and acceleration. Traditional product manufacturers create new product and launch them into the marketplace and then measure value; we will teach you to view your APIs in the same way. Concepts covered in this presentation will be designing APIs with Design Thinking, funding your product, building teams, marketing your API, managing your marketplace, and measuring success.
API as-a-Product with Azure API Management (APIM)Bishoy Demian
Transitions from a single App or a closed system to an open ecosystem that drives innovation and delivers value-add Apps and services for your end-users. Monetise your data with minimal hassle & cost. Reach your end-users on any platform. Enable your IoT strategy with a strong cloud-based API platform.
Using Azure API Management, you can build a modern interactive developer portal for your APIs. Learn about your API usage patterns with analytics. Secure access, and manage subscriptions with quotas and throttling.
APIs used to be a technical implementation detail reserved for developers and architects. In the Web age, APIs make more business sense than ever before. This presentation gives a ring side view of How to Craft Business Strategy around APIs.
API monetization extends beyond the simple selling of an API to realize new revenue streams. Monetization enables multi-pronged business relationships, for example, a SaaS provider, an industry focused ISV and a SaaS customer. Learn more about how Oracle is helping customers in the Hospitality industry realize the true value of APIs. In this talk, we will also cover some future capabilities that will help enterprises monetize their APIs for both revenue streams, and insights into the value all their APIs provide
What's a good API business model? If you have an API, or you plan to have an open API, or just want to use APIs in your web or mobile app, what models make sense? See 20 different API business models. This comprehensive survey of the gamut of today's options covering anything from paid to getting paid to indirect.
With special guests Ron Ratovsky and Darrel Miller from the OpenAPI Initiative's Technical Steering Committee, this SmartBear webinar session covered the history of Swagger and the OpenAPI Specification, and all the latest changes in OAS 3.1.
Are your APIs becoming too complicated and ad hoc? Feeling the need to set up policies for your API? This presentation will give you strategy options for designing and developing your APIs.
Apidays Paris 2023 - 7 Mistakes When Putting In Place An API Program, Francoi...apidays
Apidays Paris 2023 - Software and APIs for Smart, Sustainable and Sovereign Societies
December 6, 7 & 8, 2023
7 Mistakes When Putting In Place An API Program
Francois Lasne, Senior API Manager at Murex
------
Check out our conferences at https://www.apidays.global/
Do you want to sponsor or talk at one of our conferences?
https://apidays.typeform.com/to/ILJeAaV8
Learn more on APIscene, the global media made by the community for the community:
https://www.apiscene.io
Explore the API ecosystem with the API Landscape:
https://apilandscape.apiscene.io/
My presentation from Nordic APIs 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.
How can the architecture of one API platform look like? How can you break down things to make this challenge easier?
Apigee's Ed Anuff and Bala Kasiviswanathan will discuss how these forces inform and drive the Apigee product roadmap. Join Ed and Bala for a preview of how Apigee will deliver on its product goals, including a common stack that enables us to address our customers' multi-cloud opportunity. Learn how we'll help companies transition to the PaaS/cloud-native future, how we'll leverage Google's OSS presence, and how we will continue to emphasize the needs of developers.
APIdays Open Banking & Fintech: Workshop - Financial Services Use Cases for APIsJeremy Brown
This was a fairly high level presentation I did at the APIdays Open Banking and Fintech event in London where I started to explore the main drivers for APIs, the mega trends in consumer banking and the various use cases for APIs within Financial Services.
Do you want to scale your API program? Do you want to create new business opportunities with developers and partners? If so, monetization might be the right strategy for you.
Monetization is influencing how APIs are delivered. It provides the flexibility to generate different API consumption models for developers, and it opens opportunities to derive value from APIs, for developers and for partners.
Learn about:
- Monetization trends and best practices
- The industries that leverage API monetization today
- The future of monetization
API management solutions help enterprises manage, secure, and mediate API traffic, ensure that developers and partners are productive, and grow their API programs to meet the increasing demands of a digital world. APIU management capabilities including Backend as a Service (BaaS) solutions, analytics engines, and monetization enable developers to develop and extend apps with modern features, provide deep insights into the APIs, and allow API providers to monetize their APIs and developers to share in the revenue.
The report maps current developments in open banking and its state of adoption from around the world. It includes use cases, regulatory and industry drivers, regulations and technical standards, use cases, technical reference architecture, adoption levels by financial institutions and consumers, and advise on how to turn this change into an opportunity.
Webinar: Practical use-cases to monetize Open Banking APIsShubaS4
In this webinar, Thomas Zink – IDC research director for European financial services talked about the revenue potential of API enabled use-cases and how to overcome barriers to adoption. Karthik TS – Head, CoE, Torry Harris detailed the best practices to productize APIs, effective API management and marketplace-banking solutions.
Whitebox Testing for Blackbox Testers: Simplifying API TestingQASymphony
Today, development organizations are relying increasingly more on APIs to extend the value proposition of their product in order to monetize digital assets. In this session, you will discover not only how and why APIs serve as the arteries of online business, but how to best manage and test these essential assets that serve as the foundation upon which businesses are built.
DJ Frank will cover:
Learning the significance of APIs and how they have transformed online business through real-world examples.
Assimilating the idea that API testing is for everyone! Not just your software, code writing, engineers.
Visualizing the application and impacts of whitebox testing strategies for APIs.
Sachin Agarwal, SOA Software VP of Product Marketing, explains the frenzy around the mass development and adoption of APIs. In this presentation, he describes the business and technology implications of developing an API stratgy.
Introduction to APIs from a Business Perspective by Shafqat Islam, Founder an...Aika Sawai Nakashima
Introduction to APIs from a Business Perspective
by Shafqat Islam, Founder and CEO, Newscred (http://newscred.com)
This slide was used for a lecture held at General Assembly on Tuesday, April 19th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
What are APIs, and why do they matter? This course will give students a practical introduction to the business of APIs, including examples of successful APIs in the wild, examples of applications built on top of APIs and mashups. In addition, the class will discuss the advantages and challenges of building an API for your business, including revenue model considerations and examples drawn from Newscred's experience.
Shafqat is responsible for expanding NewCred's Platform services business, oversees the sales function and manages the strategic growth of the company. Prior to this, he was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch and part of the technology management team at Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse. Shafqat graduated with a dual degree in Computer Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
http://introtoapis.eventbrite.com/
Talk about the Netflix API and how it serves as the front door for Netflix device UIs. Topics include: API design, resiliency patterns, scalability, and enabling fast dev/deploy cycles.
Let's explore why you should have an API, how will it influence your business, why you should think about a monetisation seriously. There are a whole bunch of existing models that can help you find the right fit for your API depending on your roadmap.
Finally we take a look at the distribution of APIs to developers. Like any cake, you need to make sure it looks and tastes great to be able to sell it and be a leader!
Learn how you can use Chat GPT for your API Design. Buy my book coming on Feb, 14 2024 - https://www.amazon.com/API-Product-Manager-Prompt-Handbook-ebook
apidays LIVE LONDON - API Standards and Governance Platform by Nicoleta Stoicaapidays
apidays LIVE LONDON - The Road to Embedded Finance, Banking and Insurance with APIs
API Standards and Governance Platform
Nicoleta Stoica, Lead API Architect at HSBC
Startup Apify umožňuje scrapovat weby, vznikl v roce 2015 ještě pod názvem Apifier a o rok později oslovoval také investory. Spoluzakladatelé Jakub Balada a Jan Čurn tehdy sháněli stovky tisíc dolarů, od českých fondů Reflex Capital a Incomming Ventures nakonec získali šest milionů korun. „Určitě bych nikomu nedoporučil podle tohoto pitch decku něco dělat,“ směje se Čurn.
Asynchronous API Testing: Trends, Tools & More | Calidad Infotech Calidad Infotech
Application Programming Interface or APIs create a wholesome environment of information exchange between users and services. With the APIs bridging interfaces to back-end data streams, data requests are handled effortlessly.
Creating a Successful API Program to Drive Digital TransformationPerficient, Inc.
API management is a driving discipline in the digital transformation movement that can unlock tremendous business value. Because APIs intersect at IT and the business, it’s important to understand how they can be used. APIs can connect inventory management with resource planning for better operational efficiency, integrate with partner organizations for increased sales, and push data to and from a mobile device for the connected enterprise and consumer. The core concepts of APIs are technical in nature, but their business applications are almost limitless.
Creating a successful API program goes way beyond choosing the right tool. The supporting components and disciplines (some tried and true and some emerging) around API management are a critical component of the comprehensive picture.
In this webinar, we discussed:
-The building blocks of a strong API program
-How to get executive buy-in
-Supporting components and disciplines of API management
-How APIs help to build a world-class digital business
Similar to API Pricing Strategy Webinar (Benchmark Data) (20)
Salma Karina Hayat is Conscious Digital Transformation Leader at Kudos | Empowering SMEs via CRM & Digital Automation | Award-Winning Entrepreneur & Philanthropist | Education & Homelessness Advocate
When listening about building new Ventures, Marketplaces ideas are something very frequent. On this session we will discuss reasons why you should stay away from it :P , by sharing real stories and misconceptions around them. If you still insist to go for it however, you will at least get an idea of the important and critical strategies to optimize for success like Product, Business Development & Marketing, Operations :)
Reflect Festival Limassol May 2024.
Michael Economou is an Entrepreneur, with Business & Technology foundations and a passion for Innovation. He is working with his team to launch a new venture – Exyde, an AI powered booking platform for Activities & Experiences, aspiring to revolutionize the way we travel and experience the world. Michael has extensive entrepreneurial experience as the co-founder of Ideas2life, AtYourService as well as Foody, an online delivery platform and one of the most prominent ventures in Cyprus’ digital landscape, acquired by Delivery Hero group in 2019. This journey & experience marks a vast expertise in building and scaling marketplaces, enhancing everyday life through technology and making meaningful impact on local communities, which is what Michael and his team are pursuing doing once more with Exyde www.goExyde.com
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The Ultimate
API Pricing Webinar
RapidAPI RapidAPI
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About RapidAPI
RapidAPI: The World’s Largest
API Marketplace
(RapidAPI.com and
Market.Mashape.com)
Iddo Gino
CEO, Founder, JavaScript
Programmer
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What You’ll Learn Today
1. How Businesses Use APIs for Monetization
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How the Industry Prices APIs (Original Benchmark Data)
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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1. How Businesses Monetize APIs
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How the Industry Prices APIs (Original Benchmark Data)
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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*Source (CrunchBase Data):
https://goo.gl/U9gLU6
Over $500 Million was
invested in API
companies in 2016.*
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Free Developer Usage
Data Collection
• Use API to collect data from third
party apps
• “Login with Facebook” –
Facebook knows what apps
consumers use and when
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Free Developer Usage
Product Adoption
• Encourage integrations to boost
product stickiness
• Developers build custom
integrations for their use cases
• Harder for customers to leave for
competing platforms
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Paid Developer Usage
Charge by Usage
Developers buy a service through an API
(and everyone else…)
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1. How Businesses Monetize APIs
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing
Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How the Industry Prices APIs (Original Benchmark Data)
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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Traditional API Pricing Models
Pay As You Go
Pay per individual call
Fixed Quotas
Purchase fixed number
of calls per month
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*Source: RapidAPI internal
PRO TIP:
The average price-per-
call is $0.03 for Pay As
You Go APIs on
RapidAPI.
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Pros and Cons
Pay As You Go Fixed Quotas
• Predictable pricing
• Predictable revenue
• More revenue from low volume
developers
• App shuts down after quota is
reached
• Pricing scales linearly with
activity
• Pricing scales for larger apps
• Revenue is unpredictable
• Pricing varies monthly for
developer (harder to budget)
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Introducing the Overage Model
Pay As You Go
Pay per individual call
Fixed Quotas
Purchase number of
calls in bulk
Overage Model
Buy quota of calls, pay
per additional call
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Benefits of the Overage Model
Overage Model
• Predictable pricing
• Predictable revenue
• App is never shut down
• Miscommunication
around overages
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Sample Pricing Models: Image Storage
API
Pay As You Go
$0.01 per download
$0.05 per upload
Fixed Quotas Overage Model
500 downloads / month
100 uploads / month
• 250 downloads / month +
$0.01 additional download
• 50 uploads / month + $0.05
per additional upload
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Recommendation: Overage Model
• We recommend the overage model for most use cases as it
has the benefits of both pay as you go and fixed quota models
• When marketing to developers, be explicit about overage
amounts to avoid miscommunications at the end of the month.
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1. How Businesses Monetize APIs
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How the Industry Prices APIs (Original Benchmark Data)
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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Free vs. Freemium vs. Paid APIs
Free – no paid options available
Freemium – one limited free tier with a quota
Paid – no free options
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What Type
of API is
this?What type
of API is
this?
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What Type of API is this?
Freemium!
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Developers are
to subscribe to a plan with a free tier.
3X more likely
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Free
47%
Freemium
23%
Paid
30%
Free Freemium Paid
Public APIs on
RapidAPI*
*Source:
Analysis of 1,800+ public APIs on RapidAPI.com
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Free
47%
Freemium
23%
Paid
30%
Free Freemium Paid
291,850
developers
47,536
developers
15,388
developers
Public APIs on
RapidAPI*
(number of developers)
*Source:
Analysis of 1,800+ public APIs on RapidAPI.com
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Recommendation: Include a Free Tier
• Developers are more likely to subscribe to a freemium vs. paid
API
• Once developers embed your API (even a free tier), there’s a
higher cost to switch to another API
• Developers prefer to “try before they buy”
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1. How Businesses Monetize APIs
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How to Price Your API with Industry Benchmarks
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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Deciding on the Pricing Structure
Overall Model
Overage model
Pay as you go model
Fixed quota model
Frequency
Per day
Per month
Per year
Product
Per object
Per request
Mixed
(objects and requests)
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Pricing By Object or By Request
By Request By Object
• Support different requests
having different prices (ex.
image uploads vs. downloads)
• Potentially harder to
understand
• Most straightforward for
developers to understand
• Doesn’t account for variable
cost API calls (ex. sending an
email to a mailing list)
Charge per single API call Charge by API action
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Example Mixed Pricing Plans
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What RapidAPI Currently Supports
Overall Model
Overage model
Pay as you go model
Fixed quota model
Frequency
Per day
Per month
Per year
Product
Per object
Per request
Mixed
(objects and requests)
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BASIC
RapidAPI Plans
CUSTOM
Private, invite-only
developer plans
with custom
quotas and pricing
• Student plan
• Testing Access
• Enterprise client
• First plan level
• Freemium API will
be $0 with quota
PRO
• Second plan
• May include
additional features
ULTRA
• Third plan
• Higher quotas
• More features
MEGA
• Fourth plan
• Highest quotas
• Most features
1 2
3 4
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Benchmark Pricing for RapidAPI
Source: Average of 1,800+ APIs on
RapidAPI weighted by subscriber count
BASIC PRO ULTRA MEGA
Plan Price $0.00 $9.08 $76.00 $370.00
Overage $0.08 $0.01 $0.007 $0.02
Quota
(calls per month)
64,326 688,991 4,051,181 16,120,060
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PRO Plan Distribution
• Most plans between
$0 - $10
• Spike around $50
and $100 for more
high value plans
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ULTRA Plan Distribution
• Most common
ranges are either
close to $25 or close
to $50
•Median price is $59
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MEGA Plan Distribution
• MEGA plans have
the broadest range of
prices, with spikes
from $0 – 99 and
$1,000+
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Recommendation: Pricing Rules of
Thumb
• Basic –a free tier with a quota
• Pro – a developer tier for $10 - $20
• Ultra – a company tier for about or less than $100
• Mega – a tier for very high usage at $150+
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1. How Businesses Monetize APIs
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How to Price Your API with Industry Benchmarks
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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Content
What am I providing with my API?
How valuable is each call?
Venue
Artist
Costs
How much does it cost me to fulfill
a call?
Competitors
How are other industry players
charging?
The Three Cs
of API
Pricing
Before nailing down
a number, ask
yourself these
questions…
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Example #1: Business Data API
Content
(High)
Full business
intelligence. Use
cases include shallow
searches and deeper
dives.
Costs
Some costs are
minimal; others
require outside
vendors (ex. credit
checks).
Competitors
Specialized
information with little
competition.
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Example #2: SMS API
Content Similar by endpoint.
Costs
Fixed price per call;
tight margins.
Competitors
(High)
Charge for highly per
call, larger plans for
bulk calls
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Example #3: Shipping API
Content Similar by endpoint.
Costs
(High)
Prices are high. Fixed
fee for outside
vendors (ex. post
office, storefront).
Competitors Smaller field with less
competition.
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Recommendation: Understand Your “C”s
• List out your specific API circumstances around content, costs
and competitors
• Determine which “C” most drives your pricing strategy
• Look at competitors to see how they are priced
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Final Tips from RapidAPI
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The Bottom Line
• Decide if your model (pay as you go, fixed quota, overage) best fits your
API needs based on the pros and cons
• Add a limited free tier to increase developer adoption
• Price your API in four tiers: free, developer, company, high-volume
• Determine which “C” factors (content, cost, competitors) drive your
pricing strategy
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1. How Businesses Monetize APIs
2. The Pros and Cons of Common Pricing Models
3. Why You Need A Free Tier
4. How to Price Your API with Industry Benchmarks
5. Pricing Strategy in Practice: Three Example APIs
6. How to Add Pricing to RapidAPI
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Step 1: Create or access your API
• Create or login to account on
market.mashape.com (RapidAPI
owns both marketplaces)
• All changes made on the
Mashape marketplace side will
be reflected on RapidAPI
account
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Step 2: Go to your Pricing Page
• Go to “My APIs” > “API” >
Pricing Page
•Or access pricing page directly:
https://market.mashape.com/USERNAME/A
PINAME/pricing
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Step 3: Edit Pricing
• Add public and invite-only plans
• Select one plan as “Recommended”
• All changes will be reflected on
RapidAPI as well
Tips and Tricks
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