Run the platform.
On your infrastructure.
One docker compose file brings up Postgres, MongoDB, Minio and the API key engine — your infra, your data.
Everything your API needs.
Drop the SDK in front of your existing API — auth, docs, monitoring, and alerts wire themselves up automatically.
API Key Management
One decorator. Scope enforcement + rate limiting verified offline in 0.1ms — no network round-trip.
Auto API Docs
Every route is discovered and published to a live OpenAPI portal the first time it's called — no YAML.
Built-in Monitoring
Request counts, p99 latency, and error rates streamed per key. No extra observability stack.
Smart Notifications
Context-aware email alerts for quota limits, anomaly spikes, and key expiry — before they become incidents.
AI Capabilities
Query your usage data in plain English. Anomaly detection and forecasting run on your own infrastructure.
Your SMTP
Bring your own mail server. Apikee never routes email through external servers or stores credentials.
Three perspectives, one platform.
Explore Apikee from the product features down to the infrastructure that runs underneath.
How Apikee works
Three perspectives on the same platform
What Apikee gives you
API Key Management
Create, rotate, and revoke keys with scoped permissions.
Auth Integration
OAuth, OpenID, SSO, and API key flows out of the box.
Built-in Monitoring
Live metrics, latency tracking, and error dashboards.
AI Capabilities
Smart APIs, AI models, and predictive insights.
Auto API Docs
Generated from your spec — always current.
Auto Notifications
Webhooks, event triggers, and alert routing.
apikee
Your API. Secure. Scalable. Reliable.
[Your Customer]
User, Service, Agent…
How a request actually flows.
The SDK verifies the API key locally — no network round-trip, no vendor in the hot path. Logging and AI insights happen asynchronously.
Self-hosted, end to end.
One Docker Compose file. Postgres, MongoDB, MinIO. Bring your own SMTP — nothing external in the critical path.
npm · Maven · pip · NuGetThree steps.
From an empty server to a running platform with keys, docs and analytics.
docker compose up -d
One command starts Postgres, MongoDB, Minio, and the full key engine — no cloud account required.
Install the SDK
Pick your runtime — pip, npm, Maven, NuGet. One decorator wraps your entire API in auth and monitoring.
Issue keys & ship
Create scoped, expiring keys from the dashboard or REST API. Docs and analytics update instantly.
Your server. Your data.
One command installs Docker, wires the stack, and starts Apikee on port 4321. No cloud account. No lock-in.
curl -fsSL https://get.apikee.com/setup.sh | sudo bash
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| APP_URL | required | Public URL of your instance |
| APIKEE_SECRET | required | HMAC signing key — generate with openssl rand -hex 32 |
| POSTGRES_PASSWORD | required | Internal Postgres password |
| MONGO_PASSWORD | required | Internal MongoDB password |
| MINIO_SECRET_KEY | required | MinIO root password |
| PORT | optional | Host port (default 4321) |
| ADMIN_EMAIL | optional | Seeds an admin on first start |
| SMTP_HOST | optional | SMTP server for email notifications |
| APIKEE_PREMIUM | optional | License key for AI features |
Self-hosted. Pay only for AI.
The core platform is free and MIT licensed. A license key unlocks the AI ingestion layer — nothing else changes.
- All SDKs
- API key auth & scopes
- Auto docs portal
- Usage analytics
- Community support
- Everything in Open Source
- AI ingestion layer
- Semantic API search
- Dedicated SRE / priority support
- On-prem option
From the community.
“Replaced 400 lines of auth glue with one decorator.”
“The docs portal alone was worth the switch.”
“Sub-millisecond local verification. No vendor in the hot path.”
“Usage analytics out of the box was the unlock.”
“Replaced 400 lines of auth glue with one decorator.”
“The docs portal alone was worth the switch.”
“Sub-millisecond local verification. No vendor in the hot path.”
“Usage analytics out of the box was the unlock.”
“Replaced 400 lines of auth glue with one decorator.”
“The docs portal alone was worth the switch.”
“Sub-millisecond local verification. No vendor in the hot path.”
“Usage analytics out of the box was the unlock.”
Intelligence built into the platform.
Advanced AI features that run on top of your apikee deployment — logs, telemetry, and schema data stay on your infrastructure.
Natural Language Queries
Ask questions over your API usage data in plain English — 'Show me all 401s from the last hour' — no SQL, no BI tool required.
Anomaly Detection
Automatic detection of unusual traffic patterns, error spikes, and latency regressions. Alerts fire before incidents become outages.
Semantic API Discovery
Search your API surface by meaning, not just path. Useful for large teams managing hundreds of routes across multiple versions.
Intelligent Alerting
Context-aware notifications that cut through noise — quota warnings, anomaly spikes, and key expiry with actionable context attached.
Documentation Inference
AI fills gaps in your OpenAPI spec automatically from observed request and response patterns, without manual YAML maintenance.
Usage Forecasting
Predict quota consumption and infrastructure needs from historical patterns — before they become production problems.
AI via license key
Generate a license key at apikee.com and add it to your docker compose environment. The AI layer runs entirely within your own infrastructure — no data leaves your deployment.
- License key from apikee.com
- AI runs on your own infrastructure
- No external data transfer
- Annual renewal, offline-capable
Included in cloud plans
AI capabilities are included in Professional and Enterprise plans on apikee.dev. No license key, no infrastructure to manage — everything is provisioned and maintained.
- Included in Pro & Enterprise plans
- No license key required
- Fully managed, zero-ops
- Start with a free trial
Questions, answered.
Ready to ship?
Self-host in minutes or start on the cloud — your stack, your data, your call.