2022 State ofAPIs
APIs
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State of APIs
How do APIs scale with organization size?
We found the number of APIs an organization maintains grows with the size of the organization. Nearly 40% of the largest companies we surveyed reported having over 250 internal APIs. This increase mirrors our findings from 2020 and 2021.
External APIs
Number of Internal APIs that the organization uses
0 to 10
11 to 50
51 to 100
101 to 250
250+
1 to 50
63.8%
23.6%
10.1%
1.0%
1.0%
51 to 200
37.4%
28.6%
19.8%
6.6%
5.5%
201 to 1,000
26.2%
32.3%
18.5%
10.8%
10.8%
1,001 to 5,000
6.8%
40.9%
22.7%
9.1%
15.9%
5,001 to 10,000
9.1%
36.4%
21.2%
12.1%
21.2%
10,000+
18.0%
9.8%
21.3%
8.2%
37.7%
Number of employees in the organization
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Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Rapid Developer Survey! We hope this report gives you insight into the API landscape and emerging technology trends.