API.market vs DigitalAPI

API.market is a marketplace for discovering, testing, integrating, listing, and monetizing APIs and AI models. Its catalog advertises more than 590 APIs and AI models, along with more than 3,670 API tools accessible through one MCP connection. Buyers can try APIs in a Playground without setup or SDKs and use auto-generated apps to interact with them. The service describes unified access through one API key, usage-based billing, and real-time metrics. Sellers can import an OpenAPI specification, set subscription, pay-per-use, or tiered pricing, and generate product documentation, a test console, and an MCP endpoint. Their tools include pricing and subscription management, usage metering, rate limits, invoicing, versioning, and revenue monitoring. API.market proxies requests and handles authentication, billing, rate limiting, and analytics. Free seller listings have no listing or monthly platform fee; sellers keep 80% of sales, with a platform fee up to 20%, renegotiable above $2,500 MRR. Enterprise AI model licensing starts at $599 per month, plus a one-time $299 deployment and integration fee.

DigitalAPI brings APIs managed by different gateways into a shared catalogue for developers, partners, and AI agents. It covers API discovery, governance, documentation, subscriptions, monetisation, and marketplace functions, and connects with Apigee, Kong, AWS Gateway, and Azure APIM. Its developer portal offers API search, access requests, role-based key provisioning, usage tracking, and sandboxes for each environment. The platform can expose APIs as MCP tools, with agent credentials, separate rate limits, and an audit trail; listed clients include Claude, GPT via Responses API tool calls, Gemini, Cursor, Continue, and custom copilots. DigitalAPI also lists analytics, API linting, style guide enforcement, lifecycle controls, and CI/CD integration. Deployment options include self-hosting in a VPC or on-premises, and managed single-tenant hosting. The security page describes ISO 27001 certification and control mapping for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. The company began as an API consulting firm in Bangalore in 2015 and became a platform in 2020. Starter costs $2.50 a month; Growth costs $8 a month; Enterprise pricing is on request. A free trial is available, with flexible pilot length.