| What it does | A fast, private and offline API client for REST, gRPC, GraphQL and WebSocket services
| Git-native platform for building, publishing, sharing, and securing APIs
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| 2022
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| US
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| Pricing model | Open source
| Freemium
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| Free: $0 (1 seat, 1 API repository, 1 published document with badge, 1 mock server, up to 1,000 mock calls/month). Team: $216/year (3 seats included, $72 per additional seat; unlimited repositories, documents, mock servers, 20,000 mock calls/month). Enterprise: $720/year (5 seats included, $144 per
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| Key features | - REST and HTTP with every method, query and path params, JSON, XML, text, form-data, URL-encoded and binary bodies
- gRPC with server reflection or proto files, unary and server-streaming calls, metadata and trailers, TLS and mutual TLS
- GraphQL queries and variables with data and errors split out
- WebSocket text, JSON and binary messages with live message log
- Traffic proxy to capture HTTP(S) traffic of apps and phones
- Python scripting for pre and post-request scripts with tests
- Test cases and CI integration with chapar-cli
- Environments with variables and secret values encrypted with OS keychain
- Import Postman collections, OpenAPI specs and proto files
- Code generation for cURL, Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, Ruby and .NET
| - Git-native repository for API specifications
- Visual OpenAPI editor with live linting
- API documentation generation and publishing
- API governance with predefined and custom rule sets
- Spec-based and code-based mock servers
- Team collaboration with organizations and permissions
- CLI for linting, bundling, and publishing
- MCP server and llms.txt for AI agent integration
- GitHub Actions integration without stored secrets
- Branch and tag protection with push mirrors and webhooks
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| What makes it different | - Local-only data with no cloud sync or telemetry
- GPU-rendered native UI that starts quickly and runs on macOS, Linux and Windows without a browser engine
- Collections stored as YAML files in git for version control
- Built-in traffic proxy for inspecting and importing HTTP(S) traffic from other apps
- Free and open source under BSD 3-Clause license
| - Every API spec lives in a real Git repository with full version history, review workflow, and blame tracking instead of in a portal
- Open formats with no lock-in: OpenAPI and Markdown in Git, same checks run in CLI and CI
- Quality control through review: governance rule sets run in the editor and again in pull requests before reaching consumers
- CLI is free with MIT license, sends no telemetry, and works offline for linting, scoring and bundling
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| Free plan | Not given
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| Open source | Not given
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| Public API | Not given
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 6 ● no change since last check | 36 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 5 | 11 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 26 | 20 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 31 | 16 |
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