---
title: "April's Product Release"
description: "Introducing API monetization, improved portal, new policies, AI-powered doc search, and unified infrastructure on Zuplo."
canonicalUrl: "https://zuplo.com/blog/2024/05/16/april-product-release"
pageType: "blog"
date: "2024-05-16"
authors: "didi"
image: "https://zuplo.com/og?text=April's%20Product%20Release"
---
## Notice: Monetization V1 End of Life

We are announcing the end of life for Zuplo's v1 monetization product. This
decision reflects our commitment to delivering the best possible experience for
API monetization while focusing on what we do best - building the most amazing
API management product.

**The monetization service will be fully shut down on November 15th, 2025.**

No new projects can be created with the legacy monetization features, effective
immediately. The content in this article should now be considered out of date.

We are happy to discuss monetization options for your API. Please
[book a meeting](https://zuplo.com/meeting) if you are interested in learning
more.

---

We aren't joking when we say we are reinventing API management. Over the past
few months, we've shipped new changes to Zuplo to make it easier than ever to
ship, secure, and monetize APIs you are proud of from day one. Enough talking;
let's show you what we've done in Q1 of 2024.

## You can now monetize your APIs with Zuplo

Enabling developers to monetize their APIs in the easiest way possible was one
of the goals we aimed to achieve in our reinventing API management plan. In case
you missed [our original announcement](/blog/api-monetization-release) earlier
this year, API monetization is now live on Zuplo 🎉

This is a big step for the API economy, developers, and all of us at Zuplo.
Since its launch, we've shipped new improvements, such as better error handling
for Stripe webhooks, improved documentation, additional logging, and editable
plans. API monetization is available to all Zuplo users and can be configured
through the Zuplo portal. Want to Monetize your APIs?
[Try our API monetization today](https://zuplo.com/features/api-monetization).

![API monetization Gif](/media/gif/api-monetization-demo.gif)

## We've added new policies

We have many in-built policies on Zuplo that make it easy to handle things like
authentication, validation, and request modification. We decided to add two more
policies to the catalog: the
[API Brownout policy](https://zuplo.com/docs/policies/brownout-inbound) and the
[Curity Phantom Token policy](https://zuplo.com/docs/policies/curity-phantom-token-inbound).

## Improved portal

To enhance your experience and productivity, we’ve made improvements to the
Zuplo portal. Some of these include a new layout and fonts, CMD+K navigation,
services section, and usage dashboard. These improvements are part of our
ongoing effort to make the Zuplo developer portal more user-friendly and
functional. Stay tuned for more updates 😉

![Cmd+K Gif](/media/gif/cmd-k.gif)

## AI-powered documentation search

Away from the hype, AI is indeed changing the game. To improve the developer
experience on our documentation, we've added [Inkeep's](https://inkeep.com/) new
documentation search and AI assistance to our documentation site. This will
enable you to quickly search for relevant documentation and get AI-powered
assistance for common questions.

## Unified dev and production environments

Previously, we had separate infrastructures for development environments
(working copy) and production APIs. We've unified our dev and prod environments
to reduce the likelihood of unexpected issues after deployment due to the
differences between dev and prod.

This unified infrastructure will enable developers to test changes in a
distributed environment similar to production and handle increased loads to
better represent production performance.

## We'll be back with more updates 🎉

That's all for now, but we'll be back with more updates about our new releases.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, we would love to hear from you on our
[Discord channel](https://discord.zuplo.com). Here's a meme to keep you going
until next time 😂👇

![When you build an API and forget to add rate limiting](/media/posts/2024-05-16-april-product-release/rate-limit-bike.png)