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There are a handful of very insightful reports on the API industry available today. While the cadence will vary, most of these API reports publish annually, tapping into their customers and community to help us all make a little more sense of APIs. These reports do a good job of covering both the technical and business aspects of doing APIs in a general way, or specifically to a single area of APIs, like security.

- [Postman State of the API Report](https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/)
- [SmartBear State of the API Report](https://smartbear.com/resources/ebooks/the-state-of-api-2020-report/)
- [Akamai State of the Internet / Security report](https://www.akamai.com/security-research/the-state-of-the-internet)
- [Salt Security's State of API Security Report 2024](https://content.salt.security/state-api-report)
- [The Rapid Developer Survey](https://content.salt.security/state-api-report)
- [Traceable's State of API Security Report](https://www.traceable.ai/2025-state-of-api-security)
- [Imperva's State of API Security Report](https://www.imperva.com/resources/resource-library/reports/the-state-of-api-security-in-2024/)
- [Stack Overflow Developer Survey Report](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/)
- [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2024)

These reports will help you understand the reality other enterprises and startups are facing when it comes to producing and consuming APIs. The reports are surveying different audience sizes and demographics, but there is a wealth of knowledge avilable across all of these reports to help guide you in your API journey, no matter where you might be headed.