The time has arrived when we disclose our API ratings for August 2020. 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 rating and compare it 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 month tells us about the state of API ratings at the end of the second third of 2020.
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
Month of August, 2020
Category
Organization
CASC score
Corporate Infrastructure
GitHub
9.55
COVID-19
ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
8.97
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Coinpaprika
9.00
Fintech
Stripe
9.37
Search
9.34
Social Networks
9.69
Open Banking - PSD2
Nordea Bank
9.91
Open Banking - UK
Royal Bank of Scotland (Sandbox)
9.82
Open Banking - UK Open Data
Bank of Ireland
9.80
UK Government
Police.UK
9.17
Us Government
Department of Justice
9.61
We have rearranged the API ratings categories slightly recently to reflect better which APIs are direct peers of others. There are therefore a number of additional changes and new entries this month.
- ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) replaces COVID-19 API (nubentos.com) in COVID-19
- Stripe a new entrant in the new category of Fintech
- Twitter replaces Google in Social Networks
- Royal Bank of Scotland (Sandbox) a new entrant in the new category of Open Banking – UK
- Bank of Ireland replacing Danske Bank in Open Banking – UK – Open Data
- Department of Justice Federal Communications Commission in US Government
Six out of the 11 API ratings categories are topped by an API with a CASC score of over 9.50, which is an excellent showing on their parts. Nordea Bank takes the overall top spot with a first class CASC score of 9.91, up from 9.89 last month. ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) tops the COVID-19 API ratings, but with a CASC score of less than 9.00, although at 8.97 it is solidly in the Green Zone.
Top API Ratings - Latency
Month of August, 2020
Category
Organization
Median Latency
Corporate Infrastructure
Microsoft Office
230 ms
COVID-19
CDC Tools