Free API leaderboard
Which free public APIs are the most dependable and the fastest right now? Ranked from live checks, refreshed every 10 minutes. Measured from one server in Sweden, so treat latency as relative, not absolute.
Early data: monitoring started recently, so rankings are based on only 13 checks per API so far. They get more meaningful every hour.
Finance
88 ms
median of 2 APIs
Fun & media
102 ms
median of 3 APIs
Crypto
190 ms
median of 3 APIs
Open data
219 ms
median of 7 APIs
Geocoding
246 ms
median of 3 APIs
Dev tools
319 ms
median of 6 APIs
Weather
647 ms
median of 1 API
Most reliable
7-day uptime, ties broken by speed
| 1 | JSONPlaceholderDev tools | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 2 | ExchangeRate-API (open)Finance | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 3 | PokéAPIFun & media | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 4 | Nager.Date HolidaysOpen data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 5 | Frankfurter FXFinance | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 6 | Datamuse WordsFun & media | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 7 | PyPI JSONDev tools | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 8 | CoinGeckoCrypto | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 9 | Dog CEOFun & media | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 10 | World Bank IndicatorsOpen data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 11 | USGS EarthquakesOpen data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 12 | Coinbase Spot PriceCrypto | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 13 | Zippopotam.usGeocoding | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 14 | Wikipedia RESTOpen data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 15 | OpenStreetMap NominatimGeocoding | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 16 | Open-Meteo GeocodingGeocoding | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 17 | npm RegistryDev tools | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 18 | GitHub RESTDev tools | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 19 | UK Carbon IntensityOpen data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 20 | Binance TickerCrypto | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 21 | Hacker News (Firebase)Dev tools | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 22 | httpbinDev tools | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 23 | Where the ISS at?Open data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 24 | Open Library SearchOpen data | 100.00% | 13 checks |
| 25 | Open-Meteo ForecastWeather | 69.23% | 13 checks |
Fastest
Median response time, last 24 h, from Sweden
| 1 | JSONPlaceholderDev tools | 61 ms | p95 103 ms |
| 2 | ExchangeRate-API (open)Finance | 80 ms | p95 156 ms |
| 3 | PokéAPIFun & media | 88 ms | p95 147 ms |
| 4 | Nager.Date HolidaysOpen data | 96 ms | p95 305 ms |
| 5 | Frankfurter FXFinance | 96 ms | p95 201 ms |
| 6 | Datamuse WordsFun & media | 102 ms | p95 118 ms |
| 7 | PyPI JSONDev tools | 103 ms | p95 151 ms |
| 8 | CoinGeckoCrypto | 119 ms | p95 206 ms |
| 9 | Dog CEOFun & media | 129 ms | p95 171 ms |
| 10 | World Bank IndicatorsOpen data | 164 ms | p95 342 ms |
| 11 | USGS EarthquakesOpen data | 167 ms | p95 398 ms |
| 12 | Coinbase Spot PriceCrypto | 190 ms | p95 249 ms |
| 13 | Zippopotam.usGeocoding | 212 ms | p95 379 ms |
| 14 | Wikipedia RESTOpen data | 219 ms | p95 239 ms |
| 15 | OpenStreetMap NominatimGeocoding | 246 ms | p95 422 ms |
| 16 | Open-Meteo GeocodingGeocoding | 290 ms | p95 475 ms |
| 17 | npm RegistryDev tools | 315 ms | p95 433 ms |
| 18 | GitHub RESTDev tools | 323 ms | p95 462 ms |
| 19 | UK Carbon IntensityOpen data | 324 ms | p95 563 ms |
| 20 | Binance TickerCrypto | 347 ms | p95 801 ms |
| 21 | Hacker News (Firebase)Dev tools | 373 ms | p95 410 ms |
| 22 | httpbinDev tools | 569 ms | p95 1591 ms |
| 23 | Open-Meteo ForecastWeather | 647 ms | p95 689 ms |
| 24 | Where the ISS at?Open data | 1008 ms | p95 1459 ms |
| 25 | Open Library SearchOpen data | 1174 ms | p95 3536 ms |