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API development & testing Rising

Apidog

Free plan· $9/user/mo 1–500 people

API design, debugging, testing, mocking and docs in one app

Key features

  • Request builder
  • Automated API tests
  • OpenAPI design
  • Mock servers
  • Shared collections
  • Generated documentation

Error monitoring & observability Rising

Better Stack

Free plan· $29/month 1–500 people

Uptime monitoring, logs, tracing and incident management in one tool

Key features

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards

CI/CD & DevOps automation Rising

Blacksmith

Free plan· $0.0025/min 2–500+ people

Faster, cheaper runners for GitHub Actions

Key features

  • Parallel and cached builds
  • Managed build runners

API development & testing Rising

Bruno

Free plan· $6/user/mo 1–500+ people

Open-source, local-first API client that stores collections in Git

Key features

  • Request builder
  • Automated API tests
  • Mock servers
  • Shared collections
  • Generated documentation

Backend as a service Rising

Convex

Free plan 1–500 people

Reactive backend platform with a database, functions and live queries

Key features

  • Managed database
  • User authentication
  • File storage
  • Serverless functions
  • Realtime sync

Error monitoring & observability Rising

Dash0

Paid 2–500+ people

OpenTelemetry-native observability for logs, metrics and traces

Key features

  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Custom dashboards

CI/CD & DevOps automation Rising

Depot

$20/month 2–500+ people

Fast container builds, caching and CI

Key features

  • Parallel and cached builds
  • Managed build runners

Feature flags & experimentation Rising

DevCycle

Free plan· $500/mo

Feature flags with edge delivery and OpenFeature support

Key features

  • Percentage rollouts
  • Multi-language SDKs
  • A/B experiments
  • Per-environment flags

Source code hosting & version control Rising

Harness Code Repository

Free plan 2–500+ people

Git hosting inside the Harness delivery platform, built for agent code

Key features

  • Pull request review
  • Branch protection rules
  • Built-in CI/CD
  • Code security scanning
  • Fine-grained permissions

Bug & issue tracking for developers Rising

Huly

Free plan· $19.99/mo 1–500 people

Open-source project tracker with GitHub sync, planner and chat

Bug & issue tracking for developers Rising

Jam

Free plan· $14/creator/mo 2–500+ people

Record bugs with console logs and network requests attached

Key features

  • Bug report capture

Software testing & QA Rising

Momentic

Free plan· $125/mo + usage 2–500+ people

AI agent that writes and runs end-to-end tests in plain English

Key features

  • Codeless test creation
  • CI integration
  • Test reporting

CI/CD & DevOps automation Rising

Namespace

Free plan· $100/month 2–500+ people

Fast build and test infrastructure for CI

Key features

  • Managed build runners

Software testing & QA Rising

QA Wolf

$1/run 2–500+ people

AI-driven end-to-end testing with optional managed QA engineers

Key features

  • CI integration

Software testing & QA Rising

QA.tech

Contact sales 2–500+ people

AI agents that test web and mobile apps from plain-language goals

Key features

  • Codeless test creation
  • CI integration
  • Test reporting

Feature flags & experimentation Rising

Reflag

Free plan· $100/mo

TypeScript feature flags that clean up after themselves

Key features

  • Percentage rollouts
  • Per-environment flags

Error monitoring & observability Rising

SigNoz

Free plan· $49/month 2–500+ people

OpenTelemetry-native observability with an open-source edition

Key features

  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Custom dashboards

Source code hosting & version control Rising

Tangled

Free 1–50 people

Open-source social Git hosting built on the AT Protocol

Key features

  • Pull request review
  • Built-in CI/CD
  • Self-hosted option

API development & testing Rising

Yaak

Free plan· $79/user/year 1–500 people

Local-first desktop API client for REST, GraphQL and gRPC

Key features

  • Request builder

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