Who uses Zuplo, and why?
We have customers ranging in size from 1-person startups to mature, large enterprises with many 1000s of employees. Zuplo is SOC2 Type II certified and you can learn more about our best practices at trust.zuplo.com. All of our customers enjoy Zuplo's developer experience, GitOps workflow, support for unlimited environments, ease of extensibility, and single pane of glass observability.
Akamai Strategic Partner
Zuplo is sold directly by Akamai as a strategic technology partner for modern API management. After a careful selection process, Akamai selected Zuplo as it's preferred API management vendor to be resold to their enterprise customers.
Enterprise Customers
"The move to Zuplo from our existing API Management vendor was easy, taking just over 2 months to switch mission critical systems, and we’re saving over 70% on costs. What’s more, our engineers absolutely love working with Zuplo and we find it a much easier solution to maintain and operate." - Ryan Waites, Senior Director @ Blockdaemon
We have many enterprise customers using Zuplo to manage multiple APIs, some examples include
- Yext a publically traded company, Yext are the leading digital presence platform whose customers include Samsung, Ochsner Health, IHG Hotels & Resorts, FedEx and Five Guys. Read more about why they chose Zuplo.
- Blockdaemon - the leading infrastructure provider for blockchain with an incredible customer list including Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Plaid and many more. Read more.
- Duck Creek Technologies - a payments platform that connects large enterprises, particularly in the insurance sector, to the global payment ecosystem. Read more.
- SmarterX helps brands and retailers make precise decisions about regulated consumer products. Their platform, which is built on eight years of retail and CPG data, simplifies navigation of regulations related to waste, storage, and transportation, while automating supply chain decisions. Read more.
Startup Customers
"Zuplo saved weeks of engineering and headache getting our customer-facing API off the ground. Deployments are lightning quick, and Zuplo’s great developer experience lets us spend more time on our core product." - Devon Copeland, Co-Founder & CTO @ Serial
We also have many smaller businesses using Zuplo, launching a delightful Stripe-quality experience in record time. Examples include:
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Rewiring America - the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Read more.
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iTicket - New Zealand's largest ticketing provider, leading a revolution against customers being held to ransom when buying event tickets. Read more.
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Common Paper - YC-backed startup looking to make contracts as clear and programmable as APIs, built on open-source standards. Read more.
Are you a YC startup looking to build an enterprise-grade API quickly? Inquire about our special YCombinator discount pricing!
Launching a new API
Most of our startup customers are looking to launch an API and want to achieve a 'Stripe-quality' API experience for their customers quickly. This mean a highly performant and secure API with beautiful and up-to-date documentation and usage analytics.
Zuplo makes this achievable for small teams, saving you time, money and engineering effort. Using Zuplo allows you to avoid building out common features like API key authentication, rate-limiting, quotas, request validation, monetization, and developer documentation.
Our promise is that Zuplo should be cheaper and faster than building these features yourself, while future-proofing your architecture. Check out our Build vs Buy Guide to learn more.
Managing multiple APIs
Most of our larger customers are managing multiple APIs behind Zuplo, including multiple internal APIs. In some cases combining multiple backends into a single API but also using Zuplo as a way to ensure that all APIs are using consistent Authentication, Rate-Limiting and other common policies described by their internal best practices.
Development teams also prefer Zuplo over other API Management products because it allows for a more collaborative workflow within the team. Each team can create as many deployments as necessary for exploration and testing, while architects and leadership can maintain control over protected branches (QA, staging, production) with a clean CI/CD integrated workflow.
Microservices Gateway
Many customers are looking to Zuplo to augment or replace their traditional microservices gateway as an easier to use, fully managed solution with built-in serverless auto scale. Zuplo might be used to create a single API, with a programmable orchestration layer hosted on Zuplo.
Some of our customers use Zuplo as a smart-routing layer, with each request being routed to different, isolated backends based on user credentials or other metadata. This is covered in this video tutorial.
API over BaaS
Some of our smaller customers are choosing to use Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions like Supabase, Firebase etc and want to use Zuplo as programmable API-first presentation of their backend. More on this scenario in this video guide.