How did we already arrive at the middle of September?! Let's take a look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. 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 API ratings in a variety of sectors for their quality CASC score using our patented system (US Patent 10,644,962, if you fancy a little light bedtime reading) that allows you 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
Sept 7-14, 2020
Category
Organization
CASC score
Corporate Infrastructure
Github
9.62
COVID-19
COVID-10 Finnhub API
9.33
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
OKEx
9.20
Fintech
Stripe
9.41
Search
9.44
Social Networks
9.70
Open Banking - PSD2
Nordea Bank
9.79
Open Banking - UK
Royal Bank of Scotland (Sandbox)
9.81
Open Banking - UK Open Data
Bank of Ireland
9.78
UK Government
GOV.UK
9.44
Us Government
Department of Justice
9.62
Another volatile week!
- GitHub replacing Box in Corporate Infrastructure
- COVID-19 Finnhub API replacing ECDC in Covid-19
- OKEx replacing Coinpaprika in Cryptocurrency Exchanges
- Twitter replacing Google in Social Network
- Bank of Ireland replacing Allied Irish Bank in UK – Open Banking
Nordea takes the overall title back for the private sector with a CASC score of 9.79. A CASC score of over 9.00 is very good and one of 9.50 or more exceptional for an API rating. Six of the eleven categories are headed by organization with a CASC score of 9.50 or more this week, the same as last week. Sustaining a CASC score of >9.25 over a period of several weeks is a good showing and congratulations to those organizations that achieved it. All API rating categories are headed by an API with a CASC score of 9.20, which is certainly a highly acceptable performance.
Top API Ratings - Latency
Sept 7-14, 2020
Category
Organization
Median Latency
Corporate Infrastructure
Microsoft Office
227 ms
COVID-19
CDC Tools