Best APIs of July 2026

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   1. Context.dev

   794 upvotes

   One API to scrape, enrich, and extract the internet

   Context.dev is the web context API for AI products and agents. Scrape any URL, crawl sites, turn pages into LLM-ready Markdown, extract structured data into your own schema, capture screenshots, and retrieve logos, colors, fonts…

   #1 on July 2, 2026YC S26context.dev2 makers, 2 with emails
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   2. ExploreYC

   551 upvotes

   Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data

   One open-source API for startup data across Y Combinator AND a16z - 6,600+ companies with funding, stage, IPO/M&A exits, and founders. Filter by VC (yc/a16z/all), batch, industry, country, or search. Grab a free API key, read the docs…

   #1 on July 8, 2026exploreyc.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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   3. Humalike x Hermes

   449 upvotes

   Social intelligence plugin for Hermes Agent

   One command gives your Hermes agent social intelligence. It decides when to speak, adapts to your group's tone and remembers who said what. Works in group chats on Slack, Telegram and WhatsApp.

   #1 on July 22, 20265 makers
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   4. Humalike

   445 upvotes

   Give your AI agents the social intelligence they're missing

   Today's models are capable enough. Smart enough. Fast enough. But we still feel they don’t fit in the room. Humalike is building the behavioral infrastructure for humanlike AI agents. The social skills & proactiveness your agents have…

   #2 on July 1, 2026humalike.com1 maker
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   5. Zro

   415 upvotes

   Private inference for coding agents

   Fast and optimized open-model inference on multi-region infrastructure with zero request retention.

   #2 on July 16, 20261 maker
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   6. Auriko

   387 upvotes

   Trading desk for LLM calls

   Auriko treats LLM providers as trading venues and arbitrages the spread. Built by ex-quant traders, Auriko’s cost-arbitrage engine calibrates to each user’s request patterns and selects optimized inference paths based on token price…

   #1 on July 9, 2026auriko.ai3 makers, 3 with emails
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   7. Tabstack Browser Automation

   377 upvotes

   Automate the web in your app or agent, no browser to host

   Give /automate a task in plain English and it drives a real browser to do it: navigate a site, click through a multi-step flow, fill a form, reach a page that only renders after interaction. The result streams back in one API call. It's…

   #3 on July 1, 20261 maker
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   8. DocsAlot

   346 upvotes

   Documentation that works for both humans and AI systems

   DocsAlot turns scattered help center articles, knowledge base, and developer docs into one source of truth for humans and AI agents. It includes hosted MCP, llms.txt, and skill.md. Your docs show up in AI answers, onboarding gets faster…

   #2 on July 5, 2026docsalot.dev1 maker, 1 with an email
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   9. FetchSandbox

   341 upvotes

   API integration testing that remembers what breaks

   Most API tests stop at 200 OK. FetchSandbox lets developers and AI agents verify what happens next—webhooks, retries, state changes, async workflows, and failure scenarios. It reproduces the real bug, proves the fix, and remembers what…

   #3 on July 12, 2026fetchsandbox.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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    10. Sequence Agentic

    243 upvotes

    Money movement for AI agents

    Sequence is the financial execution layer for AI agents. Unlike read-only tools, your agent uses the Sequence API to send, split, and route real money across all your bank accounts, cards, apps, and loans. Scoped API keys mean agents…

    #8 on July 1, 20261 maker
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    11. HarnessRouter

    234 upvotes

    Bring the world's best AI agents into your app, with one API

    Building an AI agent backend yourself takes months: sandboxes, orchestration, retries, cost controls. HarnessRouter runs it for you. One API in, finished work out: code, files, videos, games. Trusted by top medical research institutions…

    #6 on July 24, 2026YC S23harnessrouter.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
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    12. Opper AI

    231 upvotes

    The european AI gateway for agents

    One API key to 300+ models, hosted in the EU. Drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google SDKs: switching is a base URL change. What's different: ~half our 30+ providers run inference in Europe, one EU sub-processor covers…

    #6 on July 9, 20261 maker
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    13. Link Preview API

    194 upvotes

    Free API to get Open Graph data, title & images for any URL

    Completely free. Get back everything you need to render a rich link card in your app – the kind you see in Slack, iMessage, or Twitter when someone pastes a link. Dedicated handling for popular websites like YouTube, Amazon, Twitter…

    #5 on July 8, 20261 maker
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    14. Gemini Omni Flash

    188 upvotes

    High-quality video generation and conversational editing

    Gemini Omni Flash (gemini-omni-flash-preview) just rolled out to developers via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, natively supporting high-quality video generation and conversational editing from a combination of text, image and video…

    #11 on July 1, 2026geminiomniflash.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
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    15. Edgee Claude Code Compressor V2

    177 upvotes

    Fewer tokens, same context, 50% cost reduction

    Compression V2 cuts coding-agent token bills with three techniques across two layers: sharper tool result trimming, new task-aware tool surface reduction, and output brevity. Drop-in for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.…

    #7 on July 6, 20261 maker
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    16. Social Fetch

    166 upvotes

    Social media scraper API for every major platform

    Social media scraping API for public profiles, posts, comments, videos, transcripts, and metrics from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and more. Pay-as-you-go credits, 100 free to start.

    #8 on July 7, 20261 maker
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    17. UnitPay

    163 upvotes

    Price, bill, and prove value for your AI product

    UnitPay is the monetization OS for AI companies. Design pricing, run usage-based billing, track inference costs and margins in real time, and show every customer the value they're actually getting — all in one system. Built ground-up for…

    #9 on July 13, 2026useunitpay.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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    18. SpeechifyAI Simba Voice Agents

    162 upvotes

    Voice agents powered by Simba 3.2 the world's #1 voice model

    Simba Voice Agents: build production voice agents on Simba 3.2, the #1 model on Artificial Analysis. Sub-100ms, streaming-native, real emotion and SSML. The best real-time voice, now a full agent platform, on Speechify's new Speechify…

    #8 on July 13, 20261 maker
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    19. RunInfra

    153 upvotes

    Describe the AI model you need and get an optimized AI

    Tell RunInfra what you need and it builds the production API. No dashboards. No config. Describe any open source model or full app in plain language. We optimize it for real: benchmark GPUs, quantize the model, generate custom CUDA…

    #14 on July 1, 2026YC F26runinfra.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
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    20. PieterPost MCP

    131 upvotes

    Connect your AI agent to postal mail

    PieterPost MCP connects AI agents to postal mail. From ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Claude Code, or any MCP client, agents can prepare letters and postcards, use Mailbook contacts, upload attachments or postcard images, create checkout links…

    #8 on July 2, 20261 maker
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    21. Universal-3.5 Pro

    121 upvotes

    The most accurate STT model from AssemblyAI.

    Universal-3.5 Pro is AssemblyAI's most accurate speech-to-text model, now available at our Realtime & Async endpoints. It transcribes every conversation exactly as it's heard—code-switching across 18 languages, our most accurate speaker…

    #12 on July 8, 20261 maker
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    22. MCP-Billing

    118 upvotes

    OAuth 2.1 + usage-based Stripe billing for MCP servers

    Self-hosted Next.js/TypeScript boilerplate: full OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, API key management with zero-downtime rotation, usage-based Stripe billing, and Redis rate limiting. 7 modules, 300+ tests. One-time €79, no revenue share, no platform…

    #13 on July 28, 2026mcp-billing.com1 maker
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    23. Manifest

    111 upvotes

    Turn any webpage into an action manifest for AI agents

    Manifest turns any webpage into a structured JSON map of what an AI agent can click, fill, and submit. One API call, no fragile selectors. Every action comes with resolved CSS/role locators, plus a requires field that encodes dependencies…

    #11 on July 21, 2026manifest.co1 maker, 1 with an email
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    24. Routebase

    103 upvotes

    Catch API drift before your customers do

    Your API lives in your design tool, your docs, your mocks, your tests, your monitoring — and every copy drifts. Routebase makes them one living source: change the spec, publish, and it catches what drifted. (Your AI agents read the same…

    #15 on July 21, 2026routebase.ai1 maker
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    25. NotifyBridge

    71 upvotes

    Dead-Simple IoT Push Notifications for Makers & Hobbyists

    The Absolute Easiest Way to Ping Your Phone NotifyBridge is the ultimate backend built for makers, smart home hobbyists, and developers who just want their hardware to work. Instead of spending hours fighting with heavy mobile SDKs…

    #35 on July 23, 20261 maker

Junior imports every day's Product Hunt leaderboard. Each launch is filed under the first topic its makers chose, so it appears in one category only. This list takes the API launches dated in July 2026 and ranks them by their upvotes. It refreshes daily.

• Best Productivity Tools290
• Best Design Tools74
• Best Open Source Tools58
• Best Developer Tools61
• Best Mac Apps51
• Best Android Apps49
• Best Marketing Tools47
• Best AI Tools45
• Best SaaS Tools44
• Best iOS Apps35
• Best Chrome Extensions32
• Best Analytics Tools27
• Best Health & Fitness Apps30
• Best Social Media Tools25
• Best Sales Tools30
• Best Fintech Tools19

• All APIs340
• Every launch in July 2026
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What was the top API launch of July 2026?

Context.dev ("One API to scrape, enrich, and extract the internet"), with 794 upvotes on July 2, 2026, where it finished #1 of the day.

How many APIs launched in July 2026?

36 on Product Hunt, with 6,859 upvotes between them. This list shows the 25 most upvoted.

How is this list ranked?

By Product Hunt upvotes, as recorded on launch day. Ties go to the launch with the better daily rank. Every launch is counted once, in the category its makers listed first.

How do I reach the makers of these APIs?

Each launch links to its page on Junior, with the people behind it (32 makers across this list). Junior adds their verified work emails, LinkedIn and X profiles for subscribers.