The API Economy in the Age of AI State of the Market Report 2025

State of the Market Report 2025

Benchmark report

2025 Edition

Understand the growing maturity, and challenges, of the API Economy in the age of AI

Understanding what the emerging AI Age means for the API Economy — and how to get ready to take advantage of the next evolution in digital transformation

What you'll learn

  • Working in an ecosystem approach (enabled by APIs) 
  • Making use of well designed APIs, that apply best practice API & data governance, as well as how to introduce ethical and trustworthy AI governance principles
  • Reorienting organisational structures and creating new business models
  • Making use of open source and no code tooling
  • The need to manage APIs and AI in a shifting geopolitical context

Why it matters

  • Over the next two years, API vendors with AI partnerships will need to establish contracts as enterprises select who they want to work with long term. 
  • AI will only function effectively if API governance is in place. 
  • Organisational structures will need to change to incorporate AI experts within wider teams.
  • Greater focus will need to be paid on FinOps during AI and API design.
  • More organisations will contribute to the open source tooling foundations that their AI technologies of choice are built on. 
  • More non-technical teams will access AI through no code tooling for specific tasks.
  • API Economy business leaders and solution architects will need to design their solutions to meet three increasingly diverse markets with differing regulatory requirements.

Get the data. Make better decisions.

Fill out the form to get instant access to the full report.

PDF

2025

English

  • Error encountered
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Mentioned in the report

No items found.
No items found.

How well do you know the API Economy?

Download the report