Every API business ends up rebuilding the same three things: key management, usage metering, and monitoring. It’s undifferentiated work that still has to be fast, correct, and always on. ReqKey exists so you never build it again.
We kept watching small teams lose weeks to auth middleware, credit ledgers, and log pipelines before writing a single line of the product they actually wanted to sell. The tools that existed were either too heavy, too slow, or priced for enterprises.
ReqKey issues and validates API keys, meters usage with credits and plans, and gives you a live window into every request — from a single dashboard, replicated across regions so validation stays close to your servers.
Key validation sits in your hot path, so it has to be fast. Every millisecond we shave off is a millisecond your API gets back.
Billing and access control are the worst places for surprises. We favor simple, proven infrastructure over clever architecture.
ReqKey is built by people who have shipped and metered APIs themselves. If it takes more than a few minutes to integrate, we consider that a bug.
Whether you’re evaluating ReqKey or just want to compare notes on API infrastructure, we answer every email.