For 10 consecutive years, IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management

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API Connect: Unlock the potential of agentic AI

Seamlessly develop, manage, secure and socialize all your API types, wherever they live.

Empower the Next-Gen Developer: AI-Accelerated API Deployment Without Losing Control

Join us on Dec 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT to see how AI-powered tooling and ultra-light gateways can help developers build and secure APIs faster- without losing speed, flexibility, and control. 

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    Accelerate time-to-value with AI-powered API management

    IBM® API Connect® supports all modern API types while bolstering security and governance. Gen AI capabilities automate manual tasks, saving time and ensuring quality. Plus, a flexible microservices-based architecture is compatible with any deployment environment.

    IBM ranks #1 in 5 out of the 6 Use Cases in 2025 Gartner® Report: Critical Capabilities for API Management

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      Do more, faster, with AI

      Automate key tasks across the API lifecycle with the API Agent. By handling repetitive work and providing expert guidance, API Agent shortens development cycles, reduces errors, and lets your developers focus on building better APIs faster.

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      Advance your AI journey with confidence

      Securely connect and manage your AI initiatives. This gateway provides a central point of control for accessing public and third-party AI APIs, both internal and external. Enforce policies and gain key analytics to optimize LLM usage.

        Centralize AI access
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        APIs speak a lot of languages. So does API Connect.

        Bring order to your API chaos. Whether you’re working with REST, AsyncAPI, WebSockets, GraphQL, SOAP—or all of the above—API Connect provides robust self-service features that support the full API lifecycle and a world-class developer portal.

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        Advanced end-to-end security that inspires trust

        From design-time to run-time, API Connect delivers intuitive, innovative and easy-to-use security and governance features that promote consistency and confidence, including IBM DataPower® Gateway and Noname Advanced API Security.

        Secure your APIs
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        Do more, faster, with AI

        Automate key tasks across the API lifecycle with the API Agent. By handling repetitive work and providing expert guidance, API Agent shortens development cycles, reduces errors, and lets your developers focus on building better APIs faster.

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        Advance your AI journey with confidence

        Securely connect and manage your AI initiatives. This gateway provides a central point of control for accessing public and third-party AI APIs, both internal and external. Enforce policies and gain key analytics to optimize LLM usage.

          Centralize AI access
          Screenshot of drop-down menu showing the creatable types of APIs
          APIs speak a lot of languages. So does API Connect.

          Bring order to your API chaos. Whether you’re working with REST, AsyncAPI, WebSockets, GraphQL, SOAP—or all of the above—API Connect provides robust self-service features that support the full API lifecycle and a world-class developer portal.

          Start creating
          Diagram depiction of end-to-end security features, including Invoke and Generate JWT
          Advanced end-to-end security that inspires trust

          From design-time to run-time, API Connect delivers intuitive, innovative and easy-to-use security and governance features that promote consistency and confidence, including IBM DataPower® Gateway and Noname Advanced API Security.

          Secure your APIs

          Why settle for anything less than a leader?

          The 2025 IDC Spotlight APIs: The Key to AI and Application Connectivity presents today's trends and challenges in API management, and what IBM is doing to help companies to build, deploy, govern and monitor APIs at the scale needed real-time, AI-first world.

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          Improve API quality

          With AI that helps you remediate errors and security and governance features that instill peace of mind, API Connect raises the bar on performance.

          Streamline development

          An intuitive user experience makes it simple to build, discover and reuse APIs. AI handles routine work, allowing developers to focus on innovation.

          Scale with confidence

          API Connect facilitates consistency, empowering you to seamlessly integrate with third-party services through APIs and experiment with new technologies.

          Deploy anywhere

          Run APIs wherever it makes sense for your business—on premises, in the cloud, across a hybrid environment or as a SaaS deployment.

          Interactive demo

          API security is crucial for every business. Take this interactive demo to see how you can safeguard your APIs, data and applications with an uncompromising API security strategy.

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          Extend API Connect with IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

          Bring the gold standard in API management  to a unified hybrid environment. API Connect is available as part of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration, which reimagines integration for the AI era. It provides a unified experience across all integration scenarios allowing you to expand use cases and build workflows that incorporate multiple styles of integration.

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          Real Stories. Real Impact. 8x faster time to market

          It used to take IBS Bulgaria’s partners months to integrate with their open banking platform. After implementing API Connect, it takes just a week.

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          50% lower API costs

          The IBM CIO organization implemented a centralized API management solution using API Connect, resulting in a 50% reduction in API costs and over 50% faster delivery times.

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          Take the next step

          Ready for consistent, reliable and cost-effective API management that fosters security, governance and innovation, all on a market-leading platform? 

          Then you’re ready for API Connect.

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