PerfAI

What is PerfAI?

PerfAI is a no-code platform that uses AI to simplify API performance testing. It handles the process automatically: learning about your APIs, creating tests, and running them at the right times. The AI model behind PerfAI has learned from over 42,000 public APIs, allowing it to understand about 70% of new API endpoints. Features include automatic test generation, performance testing, and scoring-based reports. A natural language generation module also translates test descriptions into plain English, making it easier to understand and fix issues.

Who created PerfAI?

PerfAI was founded by a team with a decade of experience in enterprise API software. They previously launched two startups in the API tooling space: DCHQ and APIsec, and are known for introducing Security-as-a-Code and an API Security Top 10 list. Their goal is a fully autonomous solution for managing, testing, and reporting on APIs.

What is PerfAI used for?

• Automated API testing: The AI handles the testing process end to end, from API learning to test creation and execution.
• Comprehensive coverage: PerfAI runs up to 10 different types of tests for each API endpoint.
• Performance testing: Evaluate how responsive, fast, scalable, and stable your APIs are under different conditions, with automatic handling of authentication tokens and rate limits.
• Bottleneck identification: Test APIs in real-world scenarios to find where they slow down.
• Continuous monitoring: Monitor key paths and endpoints, with insights and recommendations to improve performance.
• Scoring-based reporting: Get clear, easy-to-understand performance insights to support decisions.
• Plain-English test descriptions: Understand and resolve issues quickly without digging through technical output.
• Production-safe testing: Test APIs without risking data integrity or exceeding rate limits.
• Easy API registration: Register public, private, web-based, or mobile APIs.
• Broad application support: Works with single-page web apps and mobile apps that rely on API backends.
• Scalability support: Handles data retrieval, pagination, and caching strategies.
• AI-driven governance: Benefit from automated analysis, privacy, and governance for your APIs.
• Flexible deployment: Run the PerfAI Docker container in your preferred cloud environment or on-premises.

Key takeaways

PerfAI reduces the manual effort involved in API performance testing by automating test creation, execution, and analysis. Its AI model, trained on tens of thousands of public APIs, can interpret most new endpoints without manual configuration, and its scoring system makes performance results easy to act on.