2024 State of API Report
Global growth of APIs
The top API collections that were forked most over the past year across the Postman Public API Network, the world's largest public API hub.
Postman is an essential part of the developer community and API ecosystem making it critical to our API-first journey. It allows developers to accelerate integration and expedite onboarding.
Brian Beck, Director of Engineering—Developer Ecosystem, PayPal
APIs are global
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 in 2024.
Postman users grew to over 35 million, up from 25 million in 2023
Postman collections are being created in 266 countries—even Antarctica saw 10 collections built in the past year!
Top 10 countries by collections created
Top 10 countries by requests created
API landscape
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.
Pro tip
Today, when a developer wants to get an open-source project, they go to GitHub. When a developer wants to get a public API, they go to the largest network of public APIs on the planet—the Postman API Network. We have over 100k APIs from more than 18k companies, giving publishers a chance to reach over 35 million Postman developers to grow their communities.