RapidAPIReviews of rapidapi.com

As a provider its just a terrible place I had published my first API on may and ofcourse its 60 months till i get my payout and i did waited that day came nothing happened i gave it a week again nothing happened today its july 9 and when i open a ticket under billing they never reply i ooened on june 3rd nothing i replied to it again nothing one last time i opened another one nothing. And yesterday cause of the recent outages i had technicak issues so when i open a ticket under technical boom 11 minutes and they replied after that when i replied regarding my payout they just ghost me. Its like they want run away after taking my money, cause i know they are seeing the email support under technical replied in like 11 minutes whereas days for payouts and still no response. This is ao annoying, i will never know if i will get my money almost all my users have renewed for 2nd and 3rd month yet i never got the money its 9 days past now

Since becoming part of Nokia, they've been like professional extortionists. A 25% fee? What the heck is that? Are they short on cash or affected by the war? Previously 20% was enough, but what the heck, I only receive 75% of my monthly income now, especially since the payout is sometimes late. I am planning to move my API

I am an API provider on RapidAPI with two published APIs. This is not the first time they have failed to pay me correctly. Previously, I had the same issue where my payout was missing. Their support took over 18 days to respond, and when they finally did, they claimed the issue was resolved and the full amount was sent — it was not. The case was closed without a proper resolution. Now it is happening again. I have submitted multiple support requests and it is like sending messages into a black hole — nobody responds, nobody follows up, and nobody actually solves anything. Even when a support agent named Robert was assigned to my case, the issue was marked as resolved without being resolved. No matter how many times I complain, nothing happens. No accountability, no follow-through, complete silence. For a platform that takes 25% of every transaction and positions itself as a professional marketplace, this level of support is unacceptable. I am now seriously considering removing my APIs from RapidAPI entirely, because what is the point of publishing here if you cannot trust that you will be paid? I am filing a BBB complaint. If you are a developer thinking of publishing your API here, think twice.

Integrated an API into my website, but literally 1 day later I noticed an suspicious transaction. After looking this up, it is a 'verification' transaction for scammers. Soon larger transactions would follow. In short: This platform leaked my credit card details.

Rapid has really fallen downhill in recent years. It's a real shame to be writing this. I used to love RapidAPI as a consumer, to the point where I started distributing my own APIs on there when I first launched my business. Since then, however, the company has really fallen flat. Multiple silly little bugs, like the tab title being "Create React App Sample", meaningless errors stating "Something went wrong" when loading a page (successfully), usage alert emails being completely useless. 3XX responses causing users to be billed multiple times, etc. When I saw Nokia had taken over, I had hoped that it would be the start of a bit of an improvement. But about a year has passed and it's no better. I've had a user payment fail, and honestly, I'm not bothered to chase it up with them. The overage payment forgiveness process is absolutely insane, and the lack of mobile responsiveness of the dashboard is just embarrassing. And after all of this, they have the nerve to bump fees up to 25% to cover their costs. I could live with this if I actually saw some intent to improve the system, but I've already got my own overhead costs, and 25% + the overhead costs and having to update my code to facilitate requests from Rapid, it's just not worth it anymore. I'm not really asking for much. To be completely honest, I've built my own account system and payment handling off platform. It's a million times easier to use than Rapid, I can manage and update things myself when and how I want to. Implementing this has also highlighted to me that their product really isn't that complicated. Nokia, stop trying to squeeze every penny out of Rapid without putting anything back in. Either kill the product or revive it. It's honestly shocking that you have decided to push your fees onto the providers. Presumably you're trying to squeeze out some more money to cover up for terrible management, but a better API marketplace will/has already come around, and people will move onto their own platforms. It's so sad to see what was a great service turn into a complete and utter failure.

Started getting charged thousands due to consistently going over limit which was ten fold above the expected. Went unnoticed for a while. Upgraded to the next tier and guess what, all of a sudden the spikes completely dropped so that I never really needed to upgrade. This was also around the time they were gettin acquired by Nokia. Avoid at all cost.

This company uses very dubious charging strategies and if you set up a test account you will end up being charged regardless of actually using the API to process real data. I set up an API to test if it suited our needs but the website said I would need to use a FREEMIUM account which I did but it gave me nothing to actually test with until I gave them my credit card details. Assuming it was to validate me I did this and today received a charge of $40 for not even using the system to process real data! The website charges are deliberately confused and a complete rip off so I strongly advise you stay well away from this company for your own good. I contacted them about the matter and all they sent me was a canned response 3 times. I have since contacted my bank to carry out a chargeback as this company are charlatans and cannot be trusted. Please consider carefully before signing up to ANYTHING they offer.

scummers, I'm getting same image for all my prompts