Forget about costly billing, metering, and payment integrations to monetize your API products. Sulu gives you customer portals, usage-based metering and billing, and prepaid credit wallets for your users through a unified monetization platform and marketplace.
Top comment
Hey Product Hunters! 👋 I am Sam, cofounder and CTO of the Sulu team. Today we are super excited to bring you the Sulu API Platform, an API repository and monetization platform that allows vendors to easily publish their API products to thousands of developers within minutes. Developers and AI agents can search for APIs, integrate them and pay for them in real time on a pay-per-use basis through our platform. Think NPM for APIs, but with payments 💸. But how does it work? API vendors can onboard their APIs to the Sulu platform using their OpenAPI specs and set a price per call per endpoint. Prices can be fixed or depend on volume consumed, similar to subscription tiers (but more flexible 😎). Sulu generates everything you need to share your API with the world: - Readme page - Interactive Documentation - Pricing Page - A wallet and dashboard to receive payments into. On the other side, any developer can sign up to Sulu with a credit card and start consuming APIs with no minimum spend. Developers get a prepaid wallet and an API key that they can use to access any API on the Sulu network. Every time a call is made, money flows from the developer wallet to the producer wallet, seamlessly and instantly. Sulu takes care of metering, billing, tax compliance, and reporting, so you can focus on building your API products. So what are you waiting for? Open an account and monetize your API with Sulu today. You will get $10 of free credits to consume any API on the Sulu network. Any and all feedback is appreciated! If you are interested in embedded customer portals and experiences outside of the Sulu platform, please reach out to the team. We are building the product for that.
Comment highlights
This looks interesting! I haven't created an account yet, but I wonder if there could be some more things included like for example testing APIs, PII protections, rate litiming, stress testing and so on
Hi Sam! congratulations on the launch. I’m a QA engineer with 5 years of experience in tech. Throughout my career, I’ve worked on diverse projects, honing my skills in manual and automation testing, test strategy development, and defect management. I’m passionate about ensuring high-quality software and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences. Looking forward to working with the team at Sulu to ensure smooth operations.
Hi Sam! congratulations on the launch. I’m Temitope Agbor, a QA engineer with 5 years of experience in tech. Throughout my career, I’ve worked on diverse projects, honing my skills in manual and automation testing, test strategy development, and defect management. I’m passionate about ensuring high-quality software and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences. Following are my experience and skill sets: Programming Languages -- Python, JavaScript Version Control and Project Management: JIRA, Trello, Google suite, Git, and GitHub Tools -- Postman, Cypress, Apache Jmeter, Jira, Trello Testing Types -- Automated testing, Manual Testing, API Testing, Performance Testing, Functional Testing Soft Skills -- Leadership, Teamwork, Analytical, Communication Looking forward to working with the team at Sulu to ensure smooth operations.
How does this work? Will your servers act as proxy or do we integrate your headers into our APIs?
Amazing. Thanks for the API based business idea. Congratulations for the launching.
just thinking aloud. how you could aggregate tons of idle home based apis, say from Ollama and ngrok, hosting a fast Llm like phi3.. to freely top up your wallet :)
This looks super cool @sam_alarco! There have been plenty of times when I had an API-based business idea, but gave it up because I didn't want to build all the billing & metering infrastructure. And I love the idea of an AI/agent-friendly interface to make it easy to chain services together. Congrats on the launch!
Congrats on the launch! Sulu sounds like a game-changer for API monetization. How does it handle different pricing tiers and usage plans for various customer segments?
This looks great! Is there an SDK available to integrate into an existing API project?
Congrats on launching the Sulu API Platform, Sam! 🎉 The concept of “NPM for APIs, but with payments” is brilliant—making it seamless for API vendors to monetize their products and for developers to access them on a pay-per-use basis is a game-changer. Love the focus on flexibility with pricing and the hassle-free onboarding process with OpenAPI specs. The instant money flow between wallets and built-in billing, tax compliance, and reporting make it super efficient for both sides. Excited to see how Sulu streamlines API discovery and monetization for the developer community! 🚀💻