2024 State of API Report
Artificial intelligence
Until now, we have primarily been designing APIs for humans, but designing APIs for machines will become an increasingly important area for API development.
AI-related traffic across the Postman platform has increased by nearly 73% in 2024.
AI takes off: Postman sees 73% surge in AI-driven API traffic
Increase in AI-related traffic on Postman from June 30, 2023 to June 30, 2024.
Top AI tools today
ChatGPT reigns, with Gemini and Anthropic on the rise, AI tool preferences are rapidly diversifying—yet 18% still plan to skip AI entirely next year.
How does AI tooling landscape change next year?
The most interesting takeaway from this data is that devs may start looking to diversify AI tooling, models, and deployments. OpenAI still holds the top position with 54% using ChatGPT in 2024 and 43% of respondents planning to use it next year. This delta suggests a potential shift in AI tool adoption, whereas other tools like GitHub Copilot and Google Gemini maintain consistent interest from 2024 to 2025. Additionally, despite the current AI hype, 21% of respondents are not using AI today, and 18% have no plans to use AI in the next year, indicating a notable segment of the market remains hesitant or unconvinced about AI adoption.
Pro tip
The age of AI is powered by APIs. The rapid adoption of chatbots like ChatGPT has proven that AI bots are going to advance the state of human-computer interaction. Until now, we have primarily been designing APIs for humans, but designing APIs for machines will become an increasingly important area... and AI alone won't boost productivity—you need quality APIs to stay ahead in modern software.
Biggest pain points when integrating AI tools
Security and compliance top the list of AI integration headaches.