Self-Maintaining APIs

apinae.dev enables API vendors to ship customer migrations alongside every SDK release. Instead of leaving developers with release notes and manual upgrades, each change arrives ready for review in their codebase.

Why apinae

Why this category needs to exist

Every API update changes two codebases: the vendor's and the customer's. Today, vendors usually ship only one of those changes. Our August 2026 research measures the resulting integration drift across 32 vendor SDKs.

78.6% of measured SDK traffic runs on an older major version
377 days is the median age of the version running in production
23/32 vendors have most measured traffic on an older major version
Read The One-Year Gap

Free migration packs

We occasionally publish practical migration packs when the ecosystem needs help with an important API transition. They are useful resources—not the product.

Assistants API → Responses API API migration tool deadline 26 Aug 2026
SOAP/POX → REST API migration tool deadline 31 Aug 2026

Help shape Self-Maintaining APIs.

We speak with API vendors and the developers who integrate their SDKs. If you ship, maintain or migrate an API integration, we would value your perspective.

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