Audience
Organizations that need a flexible API management solution
About 3scale
3scale is the API infrastructure to build on now, and for the future. We make it easy to manage your APIs for internal or external users. Share, secure, distribute. Control who gets access to your APIs. Implement your corporate business, usage, and governance policies from a simple console. Package APIs in the tiers of service that make sense for your business. Take advantage of a wide range of authentication patterns and credentials to create the safest interactions for your partners, customers, and users. Plan, design, implement, publish, govern, operate, analyze, optimize, and retire your APIs from a one continuous experience. Implement this lifecycle in an open standard devops pipeline. Foster a community of users with a sophisticated developer portal. Design your own systems for provisioning developers and provide the content and tools they need with a CMS out of the box. Provide interactive documentation to speed developers to productive use.
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Starting Price:
$750 per month
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Red Hat
Founded: 1993
United States
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