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API Consumption Management

How scale-up companies manage their API Consumption

Gain full visibility and control over your third-party API consumption. Designed for high outbound traffic volume and production-grade readiness for any infrastructure

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From visibility to optimization

Enterprise-grade solution for managing your 3rd-party API consumption

  • Visibilty

    Get full visibility and metrics on all third-party API calls across environments and departments. Use the Lunar.dev dashboard or your preferred tool. Learn more

  • Control

    Orchestrate and optimize API calls across distributed environments, and enforce rate limiting, quota management, concurrency control, and caching with pre-made flows.

  • Scale

    Works atop your infrastructure. Ready for high volumes, reduce in-production errors and minimize maintenance time. Get more out of your current API integrations.

Get Proactive

Your API Consumption is running wild

Even with rate-limit or caching fixes, you still lack visibility into API consumption across your organization. Get proactive with Lunar.dev—no need to change your code or architecture.

API Visibility
Quota Management
API Traffic Controls
Consumption Resilience

Full visibility of  3rd party APIs

  • 3rd party API Catalog

    Discover, catalog, and manage all consumed APIs across your organization with a centralized view.

  • Monitoring API Performance

    Real-time monitoring of provider performance metrics like latency and error rates to identify issues and measure impact.

  • Consumption Metrics Extraction

    Extract granular metrics from headers and payloads with advanced filtering, easily exportable to your monitoring stack.

Manage Provider Quotas with Precision

  • Quota Tracking

    Track usage in real time to prevent overages or prioritize API calls based on remaining quota.

  • Sub-Quota Allocation

    Allocate specific quota portions across teams or applications for more granular consumption control.

  • Budget Controls

    Set budget thresholds to manage costs and optimize API usage within financial limits.

Control and Optimize Outgoing API Traffic

  • Client Side Rate Limiting

    Solve rate limit challenges by setting limits per environment, tenant, or API key, managing multiple provider rate limits effectively.

  • Priority Queue

    Prioritize API calls to ensure critical requests, like those from premium customers, are processed first.

  • Caching

    Reduce API costs and improve performance by decreasing latency through intelligent caching.

Stable & reliable. At any scale

  • Retries & Circuit breakers

    Automate retries for failed requests and implement circuit breakers to prevent system overloads.

  • Set Actions on Defined Thresholds

    Control traffic flow by setting actions based on soft limit thresholds, avoiding provider rate limits and maintaining smooth operations.

  • Smooth Traffic Peaks

    Regulate unexpected traffic spikes by managing API calls to prevent overloads and ensure service continuity.

Made for scale

Built for the most demanding workloads

Focus on scaling your product, not fixing third-party integrations.
Lunar.dev ensures stability and flexibility during traffic growth, peaks, and surprise in production.

  • Deploy across environments and departments

    Multiple Consumption Gateway installations - either siloed or supported by a shared state.

  • Fail-Safe
    Mechanism

    Built with a gateway pass-through or API re-routing on timeouts, ensuring zero data loss or service disruption.

  • Scalable Gateway clusters

    Balance traffic with our Gateway clusters for seamless performance and scalability during spikes.

  • Infrastructure agnostic

    Compatible with any cloud provider, production architecture, and all your APIs, from legacy to cutting-edge AI APIs.

  • Minimal Latency

    Unnoticeable latency with our gateway, adding only up to 4ms to the overall API call. Experience seamless performance without sacrificing speed.

  • Up to 90K calls per second

    A single Lunar gateway can endure enormous volumes of traffic, managing the most demanding workloads.

Why companies love Lunar.dev

You are the architect

Instantly gain full control over your company’s API consumption - across department, stages and environments. Get proactive and make the most out of your API integrations.

Fits your stack

Seamlessly integrates with your existing tech stack—GCP, Kubernetes, Azure, Lambda, DataDog, Graffana, and more. Working alongside your current tools to enhance capabilities without disrupting workflows or requiring major changes.

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From Blind Spots to Unified Control

Unify egress API controls across all teams and applications, providing engineering with the visibility and insights needed to manage and optimize outgoing API traffic effectively.

The Control Plane

Measure and Showcase the Impact of API Optimization

Visualize performance improvements and cost savings from your API policies, and provide stakeholders with clear insights into the value of controlled API usage. Test, refine, and demonstrate the impact in real time.

The Control Plane
Build vs. Buy

API maintenance is not your core business. But it is ours

  • Stop duct-taping your solutions that deserve infrastructural solutions.

  • Your API fixes let you down when you need them the most.

  • Get Proactive and take control over  your API consumption.

  • 36%

    spend more time fixing APIs rather than building new features.

  • 66%

    of companies may be exposed to security risks by under-prioritizing API management

  • 88%

    of companies report that third-party API related issues require weekly attention

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Frequently asked questions

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What is self-managed and what is SaaS?

Lunar.dev's infrastructure, including the proxy and interceptors, is installed and managed directly within your own cloud infrastructure. This approach ensures that all data related to API calls are exclusively managed and stored locally, providing full control over your data with no external exposure. 

Conversely, Lunar.dev's UI Control Plane is a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering that provides centralized control over all Lunar.dev components. The data shown in the UI includes system telemetry, system usage, and aggregated metrics on API volumes. Importantly, this data sharing aspect of the SaaS offering can be disabled by the customer, offering flexibility in how much information is transmitted and reflected in the UI.

What’s the difference between the free version and the paid versions?

The free version of Lunar.dev provides essential functionality, including control over API traffic and a single API proxy with a control plane, alongside access to basic plugins and flows. In contrast, the paid versions offer significant enhancements tailored to meet the demands of more complex and high-volume environments:

  • Scalable Proxy Support: Facilitates handling higher traffic volumes with the ability to scale the Lunar proxy on demand.
  • Failover and Load Balancing: Offers robust mechanisms essential for maintaining uptime and performance in production environments.
  • Premium Features: Access to premium plugins and advanced flows designed for intricate use-cases, extending beyond the capabilities of the free version.
  • Enhanced collaboration: through a shared UI control plane, enabling teams to define and manage policies across multiple proxies efficiently.

These advantages make the paid versions ideal for businesses looking for comprehensive API management solutions to support their growth and operational complexity.

Will my API calls experience increased latency?

API calls routed through the Lunar forward-proxy incur minimal latency, with a maximum latency impact of only 4ms in the P95 percentile. Leveraging the capabilities of HAProxy, Lunar continuously reduces latency overhead. The benefits gained from tunneling calls through the Lunar proxy outweigh a negligible latency impact.Read the detailed report of our latency solution and how we benchmark.

Is sensitive data stored by lunar.dev?

Lunar is deployed entirely within your cloud environment, ensuring that no API calls or sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and customer data are routed to our SaaS infrastructure. The data transmitted to our infrastructure solely consists of system heartbeat, configurations, and telemetry information. Get in touch to get more details about our security measures at info@lunar.dev.

Is lunar.dev another middleware in my environment?

We know the build-vs.buy dilemma. We believe leaving API integrations unmanaged equals more technical debt, and similarly, that building your API middleware will cause you exponential maintenance and issues as you scale. In the Beta Version, implementing Lunar requires a simple import of our supported interceptors via SDK and a one-line installation of the Lunar forward proxy. Removing Lunar is also as simple as that. it is just as easy as if it never existed. Read more about it in this post.

Is lunar.dev a SaaS solution?

In addition to our OSS and self-hosted version, you can request access to our beta SaaS version, and inquire more information at info@lunar.dev.

Is Lunar.dev Free?

Yes, lunar.dev released a free open-source version. Lunar.dev will continue to be free for Open Source or educational projects in it's self-hosted option. To inquire more about SaaS and pricing reach out to info@lunar.dev.

Is Lunar.dev any good?

Lunar.dev is elevating the incredibly difficult job of API maintenance for both devops and engineering teams. The Plug-and play approach to discovering and fixing integrations in production will save scaling teams the high maintenance costs and build up resilience.

John Newton

Co-Founder of Alfresco and Documentum

"The open core nature of Lunar is attractive to me as an engineer. I’ve had to handle so many reliance building issues on my own, chaching throttling and building scrapers to handle downtime. This is a lightweight simple to install but robust solution- all in one."

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca Security

"No one will be managing APIs post-integrations alone in a few years. A solution like Lunar.dev ensures business continuity on another level - downtime, security, costs and even policy enforcement are more easily managed in a unified way. Many teams can benefit from a solution like Lunar."

Ronen Slavin

CTO & Co-founder @ Cycode

Lunar.dev is elevating the incredibly difficult job of API maintenance for both devops and engineering teams. The Plug-and play approach to discovering and fixing integrations in production will save scaling teams the high maintenance costs and build up resilience.

John Newton

Co-Founder of Alfresco and Documentum

"The open core nature of Lunar is attractive to me as an engineer. I’ve had to handle so many reliance building issues on my own, chaching throttling and building scrapers to handle downtime. This is a lightweight simple to install but robust solution- all in one."

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca Security

"No one will be managing APIs post-integrations alone in a few years. A solution like Lunar.dev ensures business continuity on another level - downtime, security, costs and even policy enforcement are more easily managed in a unified way. Many teams can benefit from a solution like Lunar."

Ronen Slavin

CTO & Co-founder @ Cycode

"Consuming 3rd party APIs is often overlooked. An effective unified management solution for outgoing traffic, like Lunar, can save engineering teams costs, time, and solve recurring performance issues."

Drorit Baron

Technical Lead @ Riskified

"Lunar.dev helped us solve an acute recurring 429 problem in production. What I loved about it was the easy installation and light-weight solution. Lunar helped us reduce Back-off errors by 50% and get to 100% Successful API calls."

Maor Hizkiev

CTO & Co-founder @ BitDam

"I've been waiting for a solution like this, that's focused on API consumers, for years! Having implemented resilience mechanisms, I've experienced first-hand many of the traps related to APIs post-integration. Throttling and caching are often basic abilities for internal building, but consider how many developer hours you've dedicated to building and maintaining these, time after time."

Naor Paz

Director of Product @ Firefly

"Consuming 3rd party APIs is often overlooked. An effective unified management solution for outgoing traffic, like Lunar, can save engineering teams costs, time, and solve recurring performance issues."

Drorit Baron

Technical Lead @ Riskified

"Lunar.dev helped us solve an acute recurring 429 problem in production. What I loved about it was the easy installation and light-weight solution. Lunar helped us reduce Back-off errors by 50% and get to 100% Successful API calls."

Maor Hizkiev

CTO & Co-founder @ BitDam

"I've been waiting for a solution like this, that's focused on API consumers, for years! Having implemented resilience mechanisms, I've experienced first-hand many of the traps related to APIs post-integration. Throttling and caching are often basic abilities for internal building, but consider how many developer hours you've dedicated to building and maintaining these, time after time."

Naor Paz

Director of Product @ Firefly

"The open core nature of Lunar is attractive to me as an engineer. I’ve had to handle so many reliance building issues on my own, chaching throttling and building scrapers to handle downtime. This is a lightweight simple to install but robust solution- all in one."

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca Security

"No one will be managing APIs post-integrations alone in a few years. A solution like Lunar.dev ensures business continuity on another level - downtime, security, costs and even policy enforcement are more easily managed in a unified way. Many teams can benefit from a solution like Lunar."

Ronen Slavin

CTO & Co-founder @ Cycode

"Consuming 3rd party APIs is often overlooked. An effective unified management solution for outgoing traffic, like Lunar, can save engineering teams costs, time, and solve recurring performance issues."

Drorit Baron

Technical Lead @ Riskified

"The open core nature of Lunar is attractive to me as an engineer. I’ve had to handle so many reliance building issues on my own, chaching throttling and building scrapers to handle downtime. This is a lightweight simple to install but robust solution- all in one."

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca Security

"No one will be managing APIs post-integrations alone in a few years. A solution like Lunar.dev ensures business continuity on another level - downtime, security, costs and even policy enforcement are more easily managed in a unified way. Many teams can benefit from a solution like Lunar."

Ronen Slavin

CTO & Co-founder @ Cycode

"Consuming 3rd party APIs is often overlooked. An effective unified management solution for outgoing traffic, like Lunar, can save engineering teams costs, time, and solve recurring performance issues."

Drorit Baron

Technical Lead @ Riskified

Lunar.dev is elevating the incredibly difficult job of API maintenance for both devops and engineering teams. The Plug-and play approach to discovering and fixing integrations in production will save scaling teams the high maintenance costs and build up resilience.

John Newton

Co-Founder of Alfresco and Documentum

"The open core nature of Lunar is attractive to me as an engineer. I’ve had to handle so many reliance building issues on my own, chaching throttling and building scrapers to handle downtime. This is a lightweight simple to install but robust solution- all in one."

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca Security

"No one will be managing APIs post-integrations alone in a few years. A solution like Lunar.dev ensures business continuity on another level - downtime, security, costs and even policy enforcement are more easily managed in a unified way. Many teams can benefit from a solution like Lunar."

Ronen Slavin

CTO & Co-founder @ Cycode

"Consuming 3rd party APIs is often overlooked. An effective unified management solution for outgoing traffic, like Lunar, can save engineering teams costs, time, and solve recurring performance issues."

Drorit Baron

Technical Lead @ Riskified

"Lunar.dev helped us solve an acute recurring 429 problem in production. What I loved about it was the easy installation and light-weight solution. Lunar helped us reduce Back-off errors by 50% and get to 100% Successful API calls."

Maor Hizkiev

CTO & Co-founder @ BitDam

"I've been waiting for a solution like this, that's focused on API consumers, for years! Having implemented resilience mechanisms, I've experienced first-hand many of the traps related to APIs post-integration. Throttling and caching are often basic abilities for internal building, but consider how many developer hours you've dedicated to building and maintaining these, time after time."

Naor Paz

Director of Product @ Firefly

"Lunar.dev is changing the game for consumed APIs in production. I’m happy to see a robust but surprisingly simple infrastructure solution like Lunar, giving developers more autonomy to fix and optimize consumed APIs on the fly."

Amir Shevat

Author of the API book Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

Lunar.dev is elevating the incredibly difficult job of API maintenance for both devops and engineering teams. The Plug-and play approach to discovering and fixing integrations in production will save scaling teams the high maintenance costs and build up resilience.

John Newton

Co-Founder of Alfresco and Documentum

"The open core nature of Lunar is attractive to me as an engineer. I’ve had to handle so many reliance building issues on my own, chaching throttling and building scrapers to handle downtime. This is a lightweight simple to install but robust solution- all in one."

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca Security

"No one will be managing APIs post-integrations alone in a few years. A solution like Lunar.dev ensures business continuity on another level - downtime, security, costs and even policy enforcement are more easily managed in a unified way. Many teams can benefit from a solution like Lunar."

Ronen Slavin

CTO & Co-founder @ Cycode

"Consuming 3rd party APIs is often overlooked. An effective unified management solution for outgoing traffic, like Lunar, can save engineering teams costs, time, and solve recurring performance issues."

Drorit Baron

Technical Lead @ Riskified

"Lunar.dev helped us solve an acute recurring 429 problem in production. What I loved about it was the easy installation and light-weight solution. Lunar helped us reduce Back-off errors by 50% and get to 100% Successful API calls."

Maor Hizkiev

CTO & Co-founder @ BitDam

"I've been waiting for a solution like this, that's focused on API consumers, for years! Having implemented resilience mechanisms, I've experienced first-hand many of the traps related to APIs post-integration. Throttling and caching are often basic abilities for internal building, but consider how many developer hours you've dedicated to building and maintaining these, time after time."

Naor Paz

Director of Product @ Firefly

"Lunar.dev is changing the game for consumed APIs in production. I’m happy to see a robust but surprisingly simple infrastructure solution like Lunar, giving developers more autonomy to fix and optimize consumed APIs on the fly."

Amir Shevat

Author of the API book Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

Don’t let your APIs Consume you.

Get the most out of your API integrations. Gain full visibilty over you 3rd party API consumption, minimize cost, improve security.  Built on top of your existing architecture.

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