Free Public APIs — Live Status & Uptime
The only directory of free public APIs with live uptime data — updated every hour.
129
Alive
Alive
10
Dead / Paid
Dead / Paid
4
Broken now
Broken now
Built for developers who need a free API that actually works today. We ping every tracked API hourly and surface uptime, speed, and free-tier quality in a single ranked list — no five-year-old GitHub lists with broken links.
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- finance
- food
- games
- geocoding
- mcp
- music
- news
- public-data
- sports
- weather
Explore by use case
- Free MCP servers — eight remote servers, no signup, one URL to connect
- Free LLM & AI APIs — eight providers with genuine free tiers, compared
- Free AI image generation APIs — seven providers including Pollinations (no signup)
- Free stock photo APIs — Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Picsum, Openverse compared
- Free movie & TV APIs — TMDB, OMDb, TVmaze and Jikan compared
- Free music APIs — MusicBrainz, iTunes, Deezer, and the lyrics problem
- Free game APIs — PokéAPI, Scryfall, Deck of Cards, Open Trivia DB
- Free recipe & nutrition APIs — TheMealDB, Open Food Facts, Spoonacular
- Free book APIs — Open Library, Google Books, and the Goodreads gap
- Free sports APIs — TheSportsDB, football-data.org, balldontlie
- Free APIs with no API key — call the endpoint directly, no signup required
- Free APIs with no credit card — genuine free tiers, zero billing risk
- Most reliable free APIs by uptime — top 10 ranked by 30-day average from our checks
- Fastest free APIs by response time — top 10 by latest measured latency
- Best free public APIs of 2026 — top 3 per category, curated from live data
Recent events
- 2026-08-20 09:20 — httpbin went 🔴 Offline
- 2026-08-20 09:20 — IPinfo went 🔴 Offline
- 2026-08-20 09:00 — Binance Public API went 🔴 Offline
- 2026-08-20 08:40 — Scryfall went 🟢 Online
- 2026-08-20 08:00 — Coinpaprika went 🟢 Online
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Recent articles
- Shipping an MCP Server So Your Agent Stops Recommending Dead APIs — Jul 27, 2026
A no-auth MCP server at api.freeapi.watch/mcp, 30 new APIs in the catalog, and three bugs the expansion dragged into the light — including a ranking bug that put brand-new working APIs below one with 9% uptime. - Why the GitHub public-apis List Is Broken in 2026 (And What to Use Instead) — Jun 4, 2026
An audit of the 350k-star public-apis/public-apis repo against live HTTP checks: 6 APIs prominently listed are dead or paid, dozens more are flaky. The breadth-vs-freshness trade-off, with data. - Free Public API Directories Compared: Which One to Use in 2026 — May 17, 2026
An honest comparison of public-apis on GitHub, publicapis.io, and FreeAPI.watch. Different tools for different jobs.
Tracking 143 APIs · last refreshed 2026-08-20 09:25 UTC