# Best self-hosted API Management apps

> API gateways, clients and webhook tooling. Design, secure, test and monitor APIs. The most popular self-hosted API management apps on GitHub are Hoppscotch Community Edition, Bruno and Kong. appsgit lists 17 self-hosted apps in this category, ranked by GitHub stars. All 17 apps here are open source.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Apps listed | 17 |
| Most starred | Hoppscotch Community Edition (80,572 stars) |
| With a Docker image | 13 |
| Canonical URL | https://appsgit.com/categories/api-management |

## All 17 API Management apps

- [Hoppscotch Community Edition](https://appsgit.com/apps/hoppscotch-community-edition): Fast and beautiful API request builder. (80,572 stars, MIT, TypeScript, Docker)
- [Bruno](https://appsgit.com/apps/bruno): Fast, git-friendly open-source API client, an alternative to Postman. (47,361 stars, MIT, JavaScript)
- [Kong](https://appsgit.com/apps/kong): Microservice API Gateway and Platform. (44,242 stars, Apache-2.0, Lua, Docker)
- [Hasura](https://appsgit.com/apps/hasura): Fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. (32,131 stars, Apache-2.0, TypeScript, Docker)
- [Composio](https://appsgit.com/apps/composio): Integration platform for AI agents & LLMs with support for 250+ apps and custom tools. (30,445 stars, MIT, TypeScript)
- [PostgREST](https://appsgit.com/apps/postgrest): Serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. (27,693 stars, MIT, Haskell, Docker)
- [Opik](https://appsgit.com/apps/opik): Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications with a suite of observability tools to calibrate language model outputs across your dev and production lifecycle. (22,399 stars, Apache-2.0, Python, Docker)
- [Apache APISIX](https://appsgit.com/apps/apache-apisix): Dynamic, high-performance cloud-native API gateway. (17,197 stars, Apache-2.0, Lua, Docker)
- [Tyk](https://appsgit.com/apps/tyk): Fast and scalable open source API Gateway. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard. (10,850 stars, MPL-2.0, Go, Docker)
- [Lura](https://appsgit.com/apps/lura): High-performance API Gateway. (6,803 stars, Apache-2.0, Go)
- [Svix](https://appsgit.com/apps/svix): Webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks. (3,434 stars, MIT, Rust, Docker)
- [Fusio](https://appsgit.com/apps/fusio): API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs. (2,124 stars, Apache-2.0, PHP, Docker)
- [DreamFactory](https://appsgit.com/apps/dreamfactory): Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API. (1,786 stars, Apache-2.0, Shell, Docker)
- [GoModel](https://appsgit.com/apps/gomodel): AI gateway written in Go with a unified OpenAI-compatible API for multiple LLM providers, USD cost tracking, budgets, usage analytics, guardrails, caching, and an admin dashboard. (1,219 stars, MIT, Go, Docker)
- [Para](https://appsgit.com/apps/para): Flexible and modular backend framework/server for object persistence, API development and authentication. (574 stars, Apache-2.0, Java, Docker)
- [Graphweaver](https://appsgit.com/apps/graphweaver): Turn multiple data sources into a single GraphQL API. (556 stars, MIT, TypeScript)
- [Aastro](https://appsgit.com/apps/aastro): Extensible API Gateway written in Go. (24 stars, Apache-2.0, Go, Docker)

## Replaces

- [Open-source alternatives to Postman](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/postman)

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