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.

Ultra-light and faster throughput Gateway​

DataPower® Nano Gateway is an ultra-light, zero-trust API gateway that runs close to your business applications. Built to empower developers, it offers declarative policy control and sub-second startup at the API product level — reducing latency, optimizing resources, and ensuring consistent governance across hybrid, multicloud and on-prem environments.​

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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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      Develop APIs with AI anywhere​

      Accelerate innovation across distributed teams with IBM API Studio, an AI-powered workspace that unites authoring, testing, and governance, all managed as code. Deliver consistent, compliant APIs across any environment.​

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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
        Develop APIs with AI anywhere​

        Accelerate innovation across distributed teams with IBM API Studio, an AI-powered workspace that unites authoring, testing, and governance, all managed as code. Deliver consistent, compliant APIs across any environment.​

        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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