Audience

Software teams and SaaS companies that expose a public, partner-facing or customer-facing API and need to authenticate API keys, meter usage per customer, enforce rate limits and monitor API traffic.

About ReqKey

ReqKey adds API key authentication, usage credits, rate limiting and request analytics to an API you own. Your own middleware makes a single verify call per incoming request: ReqKey validates the caller’s key, deducts a credit from that consumer’s pool, enforces their rate limit, and records the request with status code, latency and location. It never sits in front of your API — no proxy, no gateway, no DNS change — so it adds no hop to your critical path. Validation averages under 5ms. Credits pool per consumer rather than per key, so issuing a customer a second key does not hand them a second quota, and balances stay synced across regions. Also included: shadow limits, controlled overage, reusable plans, low-credit alerts, and per-request logs filterable by endpoint, status, consumer and time range. ReqKey meters and tracks usage — you keep your own billing stack. SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, PHP, .NET and Java, with framework adapters for FastAPI, Express, Django, and more.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
$0 (free tier), $25/month Pro
Pricing Details:
Free tier; paid plans from $25/mo for 500K requests, with lower per-request pricing at higher volumes.
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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ReqKey
Founded: 2026
www.reqkey.com

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Add API keys, subscriptions or pay-per-use credits, rate limits, alerts, and request analytics with one lightweight SDK — without building custom authentication or usage-metering systems.

Add API keys, subscriptions or pay-per-use credits, rate limits, alerts, and request analytics with one lightweight SDK — without building custom authentication or usage-metering systems.

Add API keys, subscriptions or pay-per-use credits, rate limits, alerts, and request analytics with one lightweight SDK — without building custom authentication or usage-metering systems. Setup consumers data, keys, credits, refill, overage, rate-limit everything in one page. Traffic analytics: Endpionts, consumers, status codes, location, timing, errors, lantency, monitor everything under one unified panel. 100k requests/month for free, Pro plan starts at just $25 for 500k requests.
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