We are now striding boldly into September, and it's time for another weekly roundup of our API ratings. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading APIs in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards if you want them! Each week, month and year we’ll look at the APIs we track in a variety of sectors for their quality CASC score (using our patented (US Patent 10,644,962, if you fancy a little light bedtime reading) that allows you glance to see the API ratings and compare them to other ones, as well as factors like uptime and availability. If something is missing in our API ratings that you think should be here, don’t hesitate to drop us a line! Now, onto what the past week tells us about the state of API ratings during this insane week of an unending year.
API Performance Headlines
To compile our API ratings, we look at more than 200 APIs. Then we pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for API quality in a particular category. We do see that certain providers consistently vie for top spot in their API ratings category, including GitHub and Google. Others do less well, such as Halifax and the NHS.
Top API Ratings - CASC Score
Aug 31 - Sept 7, 2020
Category
Organization
CASC score
Corporate Infrastructure
Box
9.46
COVID-19
ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
9.15
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Coinpaprika
9.23
Fintech
Stripe
9.35
Search
9.32
Social Networks
9.77
Open Banking - PSD2
Nordea Bank
9.80
Open Banking - UK
Royal Bank of Scotland (Sandbox)
9.73
Open Banking - UK Open Data
Allied Irish Bank
9.74
UK Government
GOV.UK
9.87
Us Government
Department of Justice
9.70
A fairly volatile week this week with four changes:
- Box replacing GitHub in Corporate Infrastructure
- ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) replacing COVID-19 Finnhub API in COVID-19
- Allied Irish Bank replacing Bank of Ireland in Open Banking – UK – Open Data
- GOV.UK switching again with Police.UK in UK Government
GOV.UK takes the overall title with an excellent CASC score of 9.87. A CASC score of over 9.00 is very good and one of 9.50 or more exceptional. Six of the eleven categories of this API rating are headed by organizations with a CASC score of 9.50 or more this week, down from eight last week, so we do see some evidence of a general reduction in CASC scores for this API rating. Sustaining a CASC score of >9.25 over a period of several weeks of our API ratings is a good showing. Congratulations to those organizations that achieved it. All API rating categories are headed by an API with CASC score of 9.15, which is certainly a highly acceptable performance.
Top API Ratings - Latency
Aug 31 - Sept 7, 2020
Category
Organization
Median Latency
Corporate Infrastructure
Dropbox
289 ms
COVID-19
CDC Tools