FreeAPI.watch

Site Statistics and Transparency

This page is auto-generated from our snapshot data on every build. We run hourly HTTP checks on every API in our catalog and publish the aggregate measurements here. The full per-API data is exposed at our public JSON API for anyone who wants to build on top of it.

Catalog overview

81
active APIs tracked
6
in the graveyard (dead or paid)
6
categories
50
recent state-change events

Performance leaders

Fastest 5 right now

  1. PokéAPI — 11 ms · public-data
  2. ip-api.com — 18 ms · geocoding
  3. NOAA National Weather Service — 31 ms · weather
  4. CoinLore — 34 ms · cryptocurrency
  5. Rick and Morty API — 47 ms · public-data

Slowest 5 right now

  1. Blockchair API — 1169 ms · cryptocurrency
  2. The Guardian Open Platform — 1025 ms · news
  3. Bright Sky (DWD) — 840 ms · weather
  4. Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) — 687 ms · geocoding
  5. OpenCage Geocoding API — 682 ms · geocoding

These are single-point latest readings, not averages. An individual slow check can place an API in the slowest list temporarily; check the per-API page for the 30-day trend.

Per-category breakdown

Category APIs tracked Alive now Avg response time
cryptocurrency 14 8 263 ms
finance 14 5 1770 ms
geocoding 14 5 373 ms
news 14 6 305 ms
public-data 10 7 219 ms
weather 15 7 462 ms

Authentication distribution

Of the 81 active APIs we track, the authentication burden splits as follows:

Free-tier friction distribution

We score each API's free tier on a 0-1 scale based on signup friction. A no-key public API scores 1.0; an API requiring a free key with email signup scores 0.7; an API requiring credit-card details on signup scores 0.3. The split across our active catalog:

How this data is collected

Every hour, a Cloudflare Worker reads our catalog from D1, sends one HTTP request to each active API's documented health endpoint or simplest functional endpoint, and records the status code and response time. A second daily Worker rolls these into 30-day uptime percentages and average response times per API. The full methodology — including how we handle retries, timeouts, and User-Agent requirements — is documented at /methodology.

The data on this page was generated at 2026-07-07T03:30:59.146Z, the timestamp of the snapshot consumed by this build.

What's not here yet

Things we'd like to add but haven't: regional latency comparison (pinging from multiple Cloudflare edge locations), body-level response validation (catching APIs that return 200 with errors inside), and historical uptime graphs beyond 30 days. If you'd find any of these especially useful, the contact form is here.