Best self-hosted software development - api management
[API management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_management) is the process of creating and publishing [application programming interfaces (APIs)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.
We track 16 self-hosted software development - api management projects. The median health score in this category is 71, against 7 projects rated healthy or better and none currently flagged as at risk. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.
| # | Project | Health | Activity | Stars | Built with | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Composio Integration platform for AI agents & LLMs with support for 250+ apps and custom tools. | Thriving · 90 | 30k | Python | 24 Sept 2026 | |
| 2 | Opik Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications with a suite of observability tools to calibrate language model outputs across | Thriving · 89 | 22k | Docker, Python | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 3 | Svix Webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks. | Healthy · 81 | 3.4k | Docker, Rust | 11 Sept 2026 | |
| 4 | Hasura Fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database even | Healthy · 76 | 32k | Haskell, Docker | 9 Sept 2026 | |
| 5 | Hoppscotch Community Edition Fast and beautiful API request builder. | Healthy · 75 | 81k | Nodejs, Docker | 23 Sept 2026 | |
| 6 | GoModel AI gateway written in Go with a unified OpenAI-compatible API for multiple LLM providers, USD cost tracking, budgets, us | Healthy · 72 | 1.2k | Go, Docker | 26 Sept 2026 | |
| 7 | Graphweaver Turn multiple data sources into a single GraphQL API. | Healthy · 71 | 556 | Nodejs | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| 8 | Tyk Fast and scalable open source API Gateway. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, AP | Steady · 67 | 11k | Go, Docker | 7 Jul 2026 | |
| 9 | Kong Microservice API Gateway and Platform. | Steady · 60 | 44k | Lua, Docker | 17 Jun 2026 | |
| 10 | DreamFactory Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API. | Steady · 60 | 1.8k | PHP, Docker | 24 Sept 2026 | |
| 11 | Para Flexible and modular backend framework/server for object persistence, API development and authentication. | Steady · 55 | 574 | Java, Docker | 21 Sept 2026 | |
| 12 | Aastro Extensible API Gateway written in Go. | Slowing · 50 | 23 | Go, Docker | 27 Aug 2026 | |
| 13 | Fusio API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs. | Slowing · 48 | 2.1k | PHP, Docker | 16 Aug 2026 | |
| 14 | Lura High-performance API Gateway. | Slowing · 44 | 6.8k | Go | 30 Oct 2025 | |
| 15 | Hook0 Webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) that makes it easy for online products to provide webhooks. Dispatch up to 3,000 events/mon | Unrated | — | Rust, Nodejs | 21 Sept 2026 | |
| 16 | form.io A REST API building platform that utilizes a drag & drop form builder, and is application framework agnostic. Contains o | Unrated | — | Nodejs, Docker | — |
Which one should you run?
If you want the safest bet on longevity, Composio is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 90/100. Opik is the closest runner-up (89/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.
A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.