2023 State of the API Report

The global growth of the API ecosystem has been strong, from the number of practitioners and countries participating to the number of requests created. Here's where things stand as of late May 2023.

Postman Users: Over 25 million

Collections created over all time: 121 million

Requests created in past year: 1.29 billion

Which countries are creating the most collections and sending the most requests? We wanted to know, and we wanted to compare them with the rest of the world. Here's how it breaks down.

Countries and geographic areas: Over 235, including almost every country in the world—and even Antarctica.

Here are the countries that have created the most total collections since Postman began keeping track.

Here are the countries that have created the most requests in the past year.

We looked across the Postman Public API Network, the world's largest public API hub, to see which API collections were forked most over the past year. Here's what we found.

As more companies recognize APIs as the building blocks of modern software, API tools and services are evolving to meet their needs. These offerings span the API lifecycle, including design, testing, and security. They also include repositories for source code, API gateways, application performance monitoring tools, and CI/CD pipelines—all of which must integrate with API platforms to achieve optimal results.

Navigating this landscape requires careful thought. Here's our view of the API Platform Landscape today: