Postman

59% of human developers/applications are designed for humans.

22% of organizations identified new revenue streams as a channel through which revenue comes from APIs.

68% of developers, architects, and executives rely on AI to improve code quality.

20% of developers, architects, and executives use Sentry as their API monitoring tool.

35% of developers, architects, and executives use frameworks for deployment.

43% of fully API-first organizations generate more than 25% of total revenue from APIs.

Postman has seen 7.53 million calls made to AI APIs in the past 12 months.

47% of developers, architects, and executives use AWS API Gateway.

Llama experienced 6.9 times year-over-year growth.

60% of developers still design APIs primarily for humans only.

Just 11% of organizations plan to reduce investment in APIs in the next 12 months.

57% of the organizations are somewhat API-first.

89% of developers use generative AI in their daily work.

25% of the organizations are operating as fully API-first organizations.

69% of developers spend 10 or more hours per week on API-related tasks.

41% of developers, architects, and executives rely on AI to generate API documentation.

33% of developers have ethical, legal, and compliance concerns about AI tools.

26% of organizations that generate API revenue derive less than 10% of their total revenue from APIs.

20% of organizations use two different gateways.

67% of developers, architects, and executives adopt functional testing practices.

Only 26% of developers, architects, and executives use semantic versioning.

11% of organizations that generate API revenue derive more than 75% of their total revenue from APIs.

The percentage of organizations operating as fully API-first increased by 12% from 2024.

70% of developers are aware of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

24% of developers actively design APIs with AI agents in mind.

Calls made to AI APIs have increased by 40% year-over-year according to Postman.

5% of developers are actively transitioning from human-first to AI-first design for APIs.

OpenAI dominates 56% of total Postman AI traffic.

OpenAI racked up 4.2 million calls over the past 12 months.

Gemini experienced 3.1 times year-over-year growth.

65% of organizations now generate revenue from their APIs.

74% of organizations that generate API revenue generate at least 10% of their total revenue from APIs.

26% of organizations that generate API revenue derive between 10% to 25% of their total revenue from APIs.

54% of organizations identified improved user experience as a channel through which revenue comes from APIs.

42% of organizations identified reduced engineering overhead as a channel through which revenue comes from APIs.

34% of organizations identified improved AI readiness as a channel through which revenue comes from APIs.

26% of developers, architects, and executives use Azure API Gateway.

Only 10% of developers are using MCP regularly.

23% of developers, architects, and executives use other gateway solutions.

11% of organizations use three or more API gateways.

67% of developers, architects, and executives adopt integration testing practices.

57% of developers, architects, and executives conduct performance testing.

93% of teams struggle with API collaboration.

23% of organizations that generate API revenue derive between 26% to 50% of their total revenue from APIs.

Only 17% of developers, architects, and executives adopt contract testing.

93% of API patterns adopted by teams are REST.

81% of developers perform testing activities related to APIs.

31% of developers spend less than 10 hours a week on API-related tasks.

31% of organizations use multiple API gateways.

43% of developers spend 10 to 20 hours a week on API-related tasks.