IBM API Connect - API Lifecycle Management

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 4 out of the 6 Use Cases in 2024 Gartner® Report: Critical Capabilities for API Management

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API Agent
API Agent
API Agent
AI Gateway
AI Gateway
Format flexibility
Format flexibility
Governed and Guarded
Governed and Guarded

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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.

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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

Do more, faster, with AI

Advance your AI journey with confidence

APIs speak a lot of languages. So does API Connect.

Start creating

Advanced end-to-end security that inspires trust

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.

faster customer conversion rates

Finologee, a digital finance platform operator, used API Connect to provide branded and secured portals to its clients. The result? Improved conversion rates and substantial time saved.

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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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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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Real clients. Real results.

Movistar

“We’ve been using API Connect since 2018 and currently handle 50 million API calls per day. What we like the most is its simplicity, performance, and reliability. A specific example is the Developer Portal which has streamlined our processes—reducing time spent manually supporting development teams by 25% and helping eliminate API duplication.”

Javier Tinao, Product Manager of Digital Integrations, Telefonica Moviles Argentina

Federal Bank

“What stood out for us was the agility of the platform, the flexibility that IBM API Connect afforded, the ease with which my technology team was going to be able to use it, and that it was backed with IBM’s support and expertise. The API banking gateway … has helped us get to 200+ APIs in a fashion which makes it very easy for our partners to literally plug and play.”

Shalini Warrier, Executive Director, Federal Bank Limited

Etihad

"Using prebuilt APIs from IBM put us on the fast track towards meeting our objective. We needed to connect to 12 major systems for check-in, and cater to more than 270 unique processes. We also needed to connect to 18 existing integration systems on the backend. For example, we are one of the few airlines that provides US Immigration pre-clearance."

Kavita Iyer, Technology and Innovation Digital Portfolio Manager